Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Resolution and render in Poser

PegLegPete opened this issue on Sep 13, 2010 ยท 36 posts


Snarlygribbly posted Wed, 15 September 2010 at 8:27 AM

Quote - Folks, please ignore "DPI" and concentrate on the pixel count. The pixel count determines the amount of information in the image, and if there's insufficient information in the image, you'll get things like jaggies.

True, but in order to know what pixel count you need you have to multiply the intended print dimension by the requisite DPI, so you can't just ignore it.

Quote - And it's PPI - Pixels Per inch. Setting it to 300, or anything else for that matter, is not some magic switch that makes everything OK.

Well, you're right of course, but that's just pedantry. Poser calls it DPI and whether it's right to do so or not isn't important - introducing other acronyms just confuses the matter for non-technical people.

Quote - I typically render at around 3600 x 2400 pixels: that's 12in x 8in at 300 ppi - not particularly huge in print terms.

But a render of that size would be unnecessarily time consuming if you were only going to print it at 3"x2", which is why DPI matters - it can be used to determine that you only need a 900x600 pixel image for your intended use. I think what you meant was that it doesn't matter what you set it to in Poser's render dimensions dialog box, which in a sense is true - but that is different from saying ignore it altogether.

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