No, I still want the background driving the lighting, but I don't want to see it in the final render. In the old PV 360, this was a matter of toggling an option just before final render (hide/show environment, hide/show floor), which was much more efficient, in my opinion. Now it's a click-fest of wading through things, which is much worse than a mere click/toggle setting.
The other problem is that after such a click-fest, the background/environment is permanently changed in the modeling environment as well (unless I use the configurations trick above).
As a note to interface designers of any sort--options should never be more than two or three layers deep. The way PV 360 did this in v2010 was as good as it could get, in my opinion. This exact interface could have been molded into the panes of the integrated interface for v2011 and would have been an improvement. I guess the new interface was trying to accommodate PhotoWorks users, even though they had to relearn everything about PV 360. That was, apparently, a mistake, since most folks can learn/relearn the PV 360 interface better than learning some kludge between PV 360 and PhotoWorks that really lacks cohesion. Maybe it will change (yet again, like appearances) in v2012? (I don't recall seeing a single mention of PV 360 in the "What's New" document, so perhaps it was entirely untouched?)
Jeff Mowry
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
Switching over to modo solves that problem though ![[wink]](/data/assets/smilies/wink.gif "[wink] [wink]")