gracilis opened this issue on May 18, 2000 ยท 4 posts
earnest posted Thu, 18 May 2000 at 4:22 PM
You could try: 1. Render/Render Options. 2. Check New Window (allows larger renders). 3. Adjust resolution first, approx guide: 300 pixels/inch (dpi) Art Magazine (Quality paper 150 screen). 266 pixels/inch (dpi) Standard Magazine (133 screen). 200 pixels/inch (dpi) Newspapers (Newsprint 70-100 screen). 72 pixels/inch (dpi) Screen/Web pages (No screen). 4. Then select width in cm or pixels. (Try to get used to cm for printing to paper media). 5. Then with other settings set such as anti-alias render the image (This will generate RGB file). 6. Do not forget to convert from RGB to CMYK in image editing software for magazines/newspapers and remove channels/masks/alpha channels/selections (different names for same thing). RGB will print greyscale. Channels will prevent printing at all in some publishing software such as QuarkXpress 3/3.3 etc. Lower the black channel (key) high/midtone levels when converting from RGB to CMYK as RGB has much broader/ vibrant colour range than CMYK. Hence conversion makes image look muddy and less colourful. You could also render as a single frame animation for even better quality/sharper results. You could even export from another 3D app as an illustrator file for even greater line definition and flexibility. Good luck.