Forum: Bryce


Subject: question2 (resolution)

TheWanderer opened this issue on May 15, 2003 ยท 17 posts


bulldawg66 posted Fri, 16 May 2003 at 12:12 AM

My roommate has worked at a print shop for years. If you are using Bryce 4 or ealier, then you need to render on the highest setting. He also recommends 300dpi and making it a tiff. Then when you send it off to print, make sure the file goes to the printing press in CMYK mode. The printing machine has built into it's program to convert it to RGB, but if you do it this way the colors come out closer to the CMYK and aren't washed out. If you are using Bryce 5, you only need to render on Super and not Premium. The reason for this is that the commercial machines, like a Xerox Docutech's, aren't able to discern the difference in the resolution you are trying to have it output (does this make sense?). Therefore, the only thing you will end up doing by using the Premium setting is increase you rendering time and the amount of time it takes for the printing press to process the file. The output between Super and Premium will basically be the same. However, if you are doing an animation and rendering to say a MOV file. This would be a different story altogether. In this case the video needs to be higher quality and this is where the Premium setting becomes handy. The Super setting can sometimes appear fuzzy after rendering, so use Premium for animations. Well, at least I learned something from hanging around in a print shop and down at the Xerox offices for a while :) Now if I can just get my renders up to snuff I'll be all set.