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So two problems I am having. First, I have a background image with it set to all views. I went into the node editor and added the image and connected it to the alpha over node along with the render layers node. No background image! it does show on up the camera view (numpad 0).

Second problem I'm having is that the side of the cylinder is all charcoal looking when the texture is set to be just gray. The gray rings are suppose to be mirrored glass and reflect the background, that may be working? Hopefully it reflects my background image once it's working.

I am on Blender 2.69

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    $\begingroup$ related: blender.stackexchange.com/questions/28772/… and blender.stackexchange.com/a/38334/1853 and blender.stackexchange.com/questions/8923/… $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 27, 2015 at 4:29
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    $\begingroup$ Not sure, but it sounds like you may have set a reference image in the background which is used to help in modelling, but doesn't render. Could you explain how you set the image as background? If so it only shows up in orthographic views (press number pad 5 to toggle between orthographic and perspective) $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 27, 2015 at 22:02
  • $\begingroup$ Yea, I did a reference image. I also tried adding an image using post-processing. The charcoal appearance was caused by two overlapping cylinders. I pretty much answered these two question. I guess I asked for help prematurely. I found this article that shows you how to create a skybox: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Build_a_skybox $\endgroup$ Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 2:53

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One thing is the background image you see in the view port to guide with your setup and another is the background you render. Here is the setup to create a background image in your rendered scene.example

Regarding your second question, this type of setup wont reflect the background in your final render, to do that you should follow the previous answer about HDRI.

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You can create a skybox in Blender Render using the following tutorials: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Build_a_skybox

To create a background in Cycles Render you click the World icon on the right-hand side, center of screen; expand the Surface section; change the Surface drop-down menu from None to Background; click the dot icon next to the Color box; select Environment Texture (if you are using HDRI) or Image Texture; click the box immediately below and browse for your image.

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