This is my latest work My problem with this is lighting I would like to know how the overall lighting looks in this piece. The two figures are my first attempt at using Poser so I know they are a bit stiff looking and am not worried about that, but I was wondering if the lighting on them was ok. Most importantly for some reason when I save the image as a jpg it seems to come out fuzzy as if I had taken a smaller image and tried to enlarge it causing the pixels to look all distorted. Can someone please help me with this? Also which AntiAilasing option do most of you use, and do you think in this case the final rendering would be better if I went from regular to premium {effectAntiAliasing}?

I'm not a great 2d person, but it looks to me like you have so many colours in the composition that they cancel each other out. I like how vibrant the central building is, think it would have a lot more impact if everything else was toned down - particularly the swathes of flowers in front of it, which draw your eye as soon as you look at the image. Sometimes, maybe less is more? The lighting might look terrific if the the image wasn't so busy.

I'd recommend that you save your render as a TIF, bitmap, or if you're on a Mac, as a pict, and then use an image editor(PSP, PhotoShop, etc.) to convert your image to a .jpeg. Bryce's native .jpeg compression leaves a lot to be desired and I think you'll find that you can really improve the appearance of your uploads if you use another prog to handle the conversion. I almost always use premium, or fine art antialiasing because I find that it can enhance many fine details and textures that might not show up otherwise, but that's just my experience.

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the effect you described is called pixellation. it is a result of JPEG compression. To get the tiny file sizes, when saving the computer looks at the each pixel and the surrounding ones then averages out the colour. this means that less colour information is saved in the file (hence the smaller size). to combat this effect save your renders as TIFFs. more information on file compression at: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/file-compression.htm

damn! cross posted!

When You save as JPG the quality defaults to low compression. Pull down the box shown to MAX quality if you have no other choice. It's better to open the bitmap that Bryce generates with a paint or photo program and save it to jpg where you have better control.

Wow, I really love the detail. The colors are so vibrant. Very beautiful. I think this deserves an additional render too. Leave out the poser figures and crop out most of the lower water... panoramic perfection!