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I read through your tutorial and it is pretty good. I do have one suggestion though: On Page 5, you recommend that people save the file as a JPG image with the lowest quality setting ("Low Quality 25"). Your tutorial then proceeds to show people how to "upgrade" the image by increasing the render size and resolution and then saving it as a .tif. If you'll notice, even if you increase the render size and resolution, you will still get the "artifacts" when you save at such a low quality JPG. Usually, you only need to increase the resolution if you're going to be printing the image to a high-quality printer. Otherwise, 72 dpi is perfectly fine for displaying on screens. What about just "upgrading" the JPG image to "High Quality 100" (by selecting it on the second pull-down box)? Or, save the image as an uncompressed Photoshop image, which can then be further edited in Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. (This file format has the least amount of "loss".) Then, use Photoshop to save the image as a JPG- it does a much better job at compression than Poser. You should probably tell people that a low-quality JPG image has the smallest file size, a large-sized, large-resolution tif has a larger file size, and a Photoshop image will probably have the largest file size. But, both .tif and Photoshop images aren't suitable for the web, so either file type must be converted to a JPG. And, in either case, the resulting JPG image will probably be a better quality, smaller file size image than Poser could export. --John

I guess I was not clear here. There are two separate transactions here: 1.) The render; This is the image size, the pixels per inch. 2.) The save: you chose the format to save your pictures. For "everyday rendering," or to just check out your picture, a jpg, with the default value is ok. If you are rendering an image for more "special circumstances," you want a higher quality render, and then you consider saving the image in tif, or a better quality format. However you still come down to where the image will be headed. If you're going to enter a contest, you may have limitations concerning the image type (jpg most likely), the image size (varies), the size of the image file itself. OK, you have some points there. I guess I was not clear enough.