Heres a NOOB quesstion 100 of u will answer .. i hope... When im in poser4 and i got to save as an image.. it only saves @ 72 DPI and about 2x3 Inches... How in gods name do i get this puppy bigger? im lookin for 250-300 so i can print it.. and i want in 8x10 - 16x20 help please. How do i do this?

Ok if you want to get a larger image you have to render to a new window in your render options. if you want to render an 8x10 image at 300 dpi you'll have to render at 2400X3000 double that for 16x20 but be prepaired for some long render times.

ooo render options..... sweet... ill try it ty much wdupre if it doesnt work the way i want ill give you a bzzz

Here's another tip: when you save the final rendered image don't save it as a JPG save it as TIFF the quality is about 100% better.

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Yep good point galactron22, unless you're rendering directly for use on the web, saving as a .jpg will give you inferior results particularly if you are going to be doing postwork in another program such as photoshop! remember each time you resave a Jpg the quality goes down. so even if you are planning to post your image on the web wait to save as a jpg till after all postwork in Tiff or other non lossy format is done.

how much difference is in a jpg SIZE wise than a TIFF.. isnt TIFF like MANY MBs? does this cause loading problems... i got a brand new cpu... so memory isnt a problem... and does rendering take longer if you work with a TIFF than a JPG? or is it that rendering happens before the save options?

The file size reflects how much the data can be compressed, by taking advantage of repeating patterns (for TIF) or by throwing out awkward details (for JPG). The data is completely uncompressed when loaded into memory for editing, so it will be width(pixels) * height(pixels) * 3 bytes regardless of format. JPG might be marginally faster to load and save, since disk access is much slower thatn RAM, but actual computation speed doesn't change (and until you save it doesn't have a format, so render speed couldn't be affected - unless Poser is clairvoyant!)

the tiff format is signifagantly larger then Jpg (for example a recent image I did at 2000x2000 was just over 11 megs in Tiff and around 350K in Jpg at 20% compression) but you will ultmately create vastly better printed images from Tiff files. and there is no degridation in repeated saving versus the marked degridation caused by just one resave in Jpg.

Trust us, your renders will look 100 times better, of course after you're done with postwork, you can save a separate copy as a JPG if you plan to upload it to Renderosity's many galleries, remember a JPG has to be at 72 PPI (Pixels Per Inch) for upload to the web.

Daily Tip #2: when you work with Photoshop or any other graphic editing application, never, never, ever, save your work to the original file always make a copy to work from.

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Lately I've begun saving the unrendered image as well as the rendered one so that I can add the ground shadows from the unrendered image in photoshop.And maybe blur them some.

wow... lots of insite i thankk you all... it seems some software forums are alot more helpfull than others... :cough: Photoshop:cough: some forums after 30 replays you still dont have an answer..... if you guys have more tricks of the trade id love to hear them. thanx.speed.

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LOL...yeah, the P'shop forum is surprisingly unpopulated, and unfortunately there's some "dumb question, read the manual" attitude in there. Check the Photoshop newsgroup on Usenet, though. Those people are incredibly helpful and responsive. Here's a link to a fantastic Photoshop tutorial site. One of many.