Forum: Poser 13


Subject: Show your Poser 13 renders!

Afrodite-Ohki opened this issue on Mar 31, 2023 · 2037 posts


Thalek posted Sun, 28 May 2023 at 6:25 AM

RedPhantom posted at 4:44 PM Sat, 27 May 2023 - #4466550

I can’t say I’ve ever run into problems using pngs. Maybe the problem was with older versions. I didn’t start until p6. I always assumed the prolific use of jpgs was because they were much smaller files and storage was pricier. 

I've had only minor problems with PNGs.  Ironically, the ones where I noticed that some PNGs don't have alpha channels were thumbnails for some Poser products or freebies. Senosoft's P3DO has a function in its image converter plug-in to repair the problem. And GiMP lets you add alpha channels to images. I think it also offers the chance to save them or not when exporting them, but I never use that feature, so don't quote me.

JPGs dominated partly because they were the first of their kind, and had little competition for a decade or more.  When storage, including memory, was indeed smaller and pricier. But their compression is "lossy", and PNG's isn't.  Or so I'm told. So you apparently can have raw data quality images even with compression.