Hi All,

My first post here.  I am trying to export a PNG figure out of Poser 6 and the resoltion is in kilobytes.  It's hardly higher than doing a screen capture.   I have tried up things in Firefly but it does't seem to have any effect on image output.    Seems like an incredibly simple thing to be doing, but unfortunately it isn't working properly for me.   I know the program is old, but I'm not sure that I would stay with Poser if I decide to upgrade anyway.  I just need to get throught the project I'm working on, which is only a few things in Poser.  

I would appreciate any help.  Thanks...

i haven't touched Poser 6 in years, but have you tried to export as .jpg at 100% quality ?

Or .TIF or BMP ?

And then convert to PNG later ?

Also, if there is no proper background in your render, a lot of the PNG will be transparent, so the file size is actually quite small.

Can be even smaller than a jpg, because there is no transparency in a jpg, so even an empty background would export as a solid color.

Hey Joe,

Thanks for the quick reply.   It has to be PNG because I am planning to composite it in Photoshop, so I need the Alpha channel.

And it's not just that it's small,  I checked its size after seeing the staircasing on the edges of the image.

I haven't found anything that says 100% percent quality.   That could be what's missing.   I can't find any quaulity sttings for the image export.  It just says export image and has choices of JPEG, TIFF and PNG I think.  Would Firefly have anytthing at all to do with the still image output?  

Thanks again for responding...Ian

PNG is always 100% quality. There is no setting to it. It's lossless compression.

I don't understand your sentence that combines the words "resolution" and "kilobytes". You're compressing. An ultra high resolution image consisting of mostly rectangles of solid color would compress to very small values, so telling us your file size is in kilobytes doesn't actually tell us anything at all.

What is your problem. Are you concerned with dimensions of your image? (image size?)

Are you concerned with the number of pixels used to represent your props? (resolution, which is actually image size?)

Are you concerned with pixellated edges of your rendered objects? (antialiasing which is all about render settings and nothing to do with PNG VS JPG)

If it's the last one, you need to increase pixel samples in render settings and you probably need to adjust post filtering in render settings. However,  I'm sorry to say I can no longer remember if/where those are in P6.

There is no such resolution quality setting for png, I'm afraid.  However, what are your render settings for your scene?  Provide screencaps of render settings and dimensions if you can.

I figured it out.  I changed the DOCUMENT WINDOW SIZE drom the default 800x800 to 3000X3000 and that did the trick.  Thanks for the reponses. 

I figured it was image size. Glad you're moving forward again.

Quote - I changed the DOCUMENT WINDOW SIZE drom the default 800x800 to 3000X3000 and that did the trick.

Unless you have the world's biggest monitor, your document window must now be off the edge of the screen. Here's an easier way: go to Render > Render Dimensions... (or Ctrl-Alt-D) where you can set the render size independently of the preview size.

My advice would be to keep the render's aspect ratio the same as the preview, but it isn't compulsory.

Thanks, Bob.  I'll give it a try.

Seems like a very good forum.  I really appreciate all the great resposes.  Just what I was hoping to find.  Thanks, again!...Ian