Oh, absloutely! IF your render already HAS jagged edges, reducing the pic by half will help somewhat. Some use this as a very rough way to get around having to use the last rendering pass, the AA pass. It doesn't compare to having a real AA render, but, it's good for getting a rough idea of what the final scene would look like. BUT, if you have rendered normally...(with your scene anti-aliased), and you then resize your pic by half, then you will get small sharp/jagged pixels as a result. (almost always) And, since rendering with AA or without AA, and then halving, has always made pics look bad COMPARED to a pic rendered with AA and NOT resized...I would suggest not resizing pics, just to get the clearest picture. All just imo. Dpi doesn't even enter the "picture" so to speak for me. The exmaple I gave above was at 72dpi. But, I could give you the same example at 72, 96, 150, or 300 (if you want) and there will be no difference in file size, color count, render time, or visually. I could do more comparisons, but this is what I have experimented with and found out myself. Just a difference of opinion, but I have yet to find a render look any different when made at different dpi's. (on screen) Quest, you could do your sample again with each pic having any dpi you want, it's going to turn out the same. So far, it has with me and my little experiments. But, everyone has different pc's, different monitors... Paul does say at that tutorial "Make Output Size at least 2X of what you want to post for the web". He never says to RESIZE, he says "Your images will look much, much better when resampled as Jpegs". RESAMPLED, not resized, big difference. Unless I'm wrong, he means when you resample (convert) your bmp to a jpg. And, he's right in that aspect also. Large dimension bmp's can have a smaller jpg quality and still look good (on screen), compared to a smaller bmp saved at the same jpg quality. I'm not sure about dpi and computer monitors, I've never seen dpi listed as a spec on any monitor. They use dot pitch as their level of measure. But, I have seen that Paul is a WELL informed dude, I wouldn't doubt what he knows and what I haven't heard of, lol. But, you're right Bryster, with .jpg's ALWAYS experiment, always, lol. AS

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