hello

I am a amateur Poser user

One item I have always struggled with is getting good quality, high resolution, screen filling images exported after Poser 2010 renders.

Example

I did a portrait image 

Default values for Poser 2010 used except for rendering, I used final render and no gamma.

The image had a dark blue background.

I rendered and exported via the 3rd from right button on the render screen.

Tiff format gave me 502 Kb but no background, it was transparant.

PNG was similar no background

jpg was exported at only 58.2 kb with background.

I imported into photoshop for wording and exported at 160 kb.

I see some artists achieve 1mb for their jpgs so feel my 52 kb is too small and maybe compressed.

Also is it possible to save to Tiff format and keep the background?

I have looked through the Poser tutorial videos I have and it is not covered.

Any help you can give appreciated

Thankss

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Tiff format gave me 502 Kb but no background, it was transparant.

PNG was similar no background

jpg was exported at only 58.2 kb with background.

That depends on your viewer and how it interprets Tiffs and PNG formats. Not all viewers interpret those backgrounds as transparent. Though, in something like photoshop, a transparency for a TIFF or PNG background is standard. Check your file import features and disable transparencies for those formats, if you want to preserve a single-color background.

Quote - I see some artists achieve 1mb for their jpgs so feel my 52 kb is too small and maybe compressed.

It may, indeed, be compressed. I don't have 2012, I just have Poser 7 and Pro 2012. But, there should be a dialogue that asks you what compression you want your jpeg export to be. Tiffs are saved uncompressed. (At least, that's how mine are and I never save renders in any other format.)

If you don't get a dialogue that asks for compression rates for compressed image formats, like jpeg, in 2010, check your Preferences menus and see if there is a default setting, there.

Quote - Also is it possible to save to Tiff format and keep the background?

The background should still be there. It's just how your image viewer is interpreting the Tiff, unless you have indicated in Poser to render or export it otherwise.

Convert one of those Tiffs into a jpeg and you should see that background reappear. If it does not, then you are not exporting the background color when exporting the Tiff from Poser and you need to check your export settings there.

Not sure if I was any help, but it's the best I can offer. :D

what size image are you rendering ?

for my system a screen background is 1024 x 768  which is set in the render dimensions. I use png for anything to be postworked.  Jpegs are a lossy compression.

I think most people render to TIFF output, but I personally prefer BMP, both are loss-less. I'd only convert to .jpg for posting to the galley to keep the size down. Do all your postwork in loss-less format up to final posting or you'll loose quality each time to save and re-open it as a .jpg.

Render bigger than 1024 x 768 as most people's monitors are at resolutions much higher these days and it will look too small. GIMP is a good free image viewing and manipulation program if you don't have anything better.

All the best.

Can Poser 2010 save as a Photoshop PSD file?

I know Poser 9 / Pro 2012 certainly does... if you have Photoshop, this is a good option... certainly if you render z-depth maps etc. along with your main render image.

Although... I have occassionaly noticed some bugginess there (artifacts appearing in the Photoshop export).

You can export as jpeg with the quality set to 100% too. But that is still lossy... technically.

Although, you might be hard pressed to see the lossiness, unless you're rendering at a very high resolution.

I think the PSD export option is probably just equivalent to saving as BMP or TIFF? But it is layered...

Did you simply set the backgound colour to blue?  Instead, try putting a square plane primitive sized to fill your camera field with cast shadows off behind your subject and set the diffuse color to blue in the Material Room.  Then you shouldn't end up with a transparent backgrund in any format...

Hi

The image sizes you are giving are very low, it sounds like you have the export size set too small.

A tiff image of 502 K is only about a half inch by three quarters of an inch in size and won't show you a high quality image, this is more like the size of an icon.

A tiff image should show your background color, .Png will not, but try exporting at something like 8 by 10 at 300 PPi and see what your image looks like.

Click on Render at the top of the screen, then render dimensions, set them to "Render to exact dimensions" and change the settings to a higher quality output, i.e. 300 ppi.

keep the constrain aspect ratio box checked and increase one of the Width Height sizes in inches to a reasonable size.

Too be of good quality your images will probably be in the neighborhood of 15 megabytes or more.

Mike

Learn to think in PIXELS. The file sizes you're giving are meaningless, they only tell you how much disc space they occupy, not how many pixels they contain.

What is your screen resolution in pixels? Let's say it's 1600 x 1200. Guess how many pixels your render needs to be to fill the screen?

Also, don't save as JPEG directly from Poser, it's not well implemented. Save as TIFF or PSD.

hi

Great response to my question.

I have lots to try to improve my image

I will give you some feedback later

Thanks again