Hi.

Just a quick question.

Does P5 have the same limit as P4/PPP whereby I can't get images rendered at 300dpi at anything over 4096 pixels?

Cheers for the comeback,
Martin

If you want to render over 4096 pix you have to use the Firefly renderer. The P4 render engine within P5 has the same limit as the Poser4. I have rendered some images at 5000x6000, 300dpi with the Firefly and it works fine - just takes some hours to finish.

Just curious.. why do people list a dpi when talking about screen renders? I mean, whether I render something at 4000x4000 pixels or 800x800 pixels, the dpi is fixed to whatever my monitor is set it, isn't it?

No, when I rightclick on my image in the Windows Explorer and look up the file info about height, width and resolution it says 300dpi.

HI.

Just to clarify, I need 300dpi images and BIG because they are for creating digital prints of a3 to a0 size.

And thanks for all the help.

Guess I need to convince the LW plug-in to load my files - it's crashing at the moment & I need to re-install - or else I'm gonna be upgrading to P5.

Cheers again,
Martin

Punt, interesting.. where exactly are you seeing that? If I select an image, it shows width and height in the info on the left Details/preview area, but I don't see anything about dpi (this is in XP).

Spanki, I meant rightclicking the thumbnail (I use the thumbnail preview in XP), then from the context menue click on Features or Preferences (don*t know the right expression in english, it's called Eigenschaften in german). Then a little window pops up and lets you look at the file info.

dpi is just a number, wether you render 4096x4096 pixels @ 72 dpi or 4096x4096 @ 300 dpi doesn't make any difference.

Ahh.. I had to change to the 'Advanced' display on the Summary page to see that. Interesting.

Eigenschaften in the english version means options or properties...I think. :-)

Just fyi.. here's what the english version looks like.

L Thanks Spanki. Weird thing with my OS is that I somehow managed to get me a mixed german-english version....I can never tell you in with language the menu might appear L

Ah yes, properties ... sometimes I forget my vocabulary :-). MartinW: "Just to clarify, I need 300dpi images and BIG because they are for creating digital prints of a3 to a0 size." Yep, same reason over here. Got the requirements from the place that prints the images.

=> Stewer, Actually I'm not so sure you're right about disregarding the dpi. As I understand things (and, granted, I could be wrong) dpi is an important factor when you make scenes for print. For on-screen viewing, you're right, a dpi value of 72 is definitely funtional and anything higher is over the top, but for print my experience tells me that 72dpi will give you a very pixelated print. If I'm wrong, please educate me. I think I'm right, though. -Hanz

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ok here are a couple of articles about dpi http://nilbs.com/techbabl/dpi_ultim.htm the truth is that dpi is only necessary to figure out what size your image is going to print at true 1 pixel per dot setting, assuming that you are using a 300 dpi printer which is also not a given any more. very few printers these days actually read the dpi setting in an image instead they either spread the dots evenly over the resolution of the printer using 1 to 1 or interpalated systems or limit the whole image to a specific size. the only purpose for recording DPI in an image file is for ruler calibration in photo editing and publishing programs.

Thanks wdupre, that makes sense. So the dpi value is stored in the image only for printing reference purposes. There's no more actual 'data' in a 4000x4000 pixel image stored as 300 dpi vs. a 4000x4000 pixel image stored as 72 dpi. It's merely a suggested printing resolution.

take it you guys are talking about deviantprints. they rule. i order stuff off there all the time

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Relik has a HUGE in-depth thread at RDNA covering just about everything you would want to know about DPI and Printing. And best of all it's written primarily from the topic of Poser. ;) Poser printing Poser printing-Color Correcting Poser printing-RIPs and Printers Poser printing-Printers and Papers http://host1.bondware.com/~syydr/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=30362

Thanks one and all. For now I am using the workaround of rendering at 100dpi and then asking Photoshop to resample to image up to 300dpi and, after laying an egg about it, it does so. Now if only I could add that 2nd processor, another 512meg of ram... Thanks once again, Martin