I don't really have much experience in printing so I hope someone can help me ;-)

Does Bryce have the option to render at a cpecified dpi or do we do that in Photoshop?

If an 8x10 inches picture with 72dpi is converted to 300dpi in Photoshop, would it make a better print?

Thanks.
alvin

You could scale up a pic to fill the whole area of a page from a screen sized image, but the quality goes down. If you want the image to look good, you'll have to render it for print. Render to disk has the option to set up a dpi... Or multiply the dpi by the number of inches on each side you'll be using for the dimensions of an image. Then take those numbers and set them as the dimensions to use (8x300=2400, and 10x300=3000). You'll only see a portion on screen at a given time, but this way you'll be able to stop and save and restart a render that's partially completed. The image will probably read 72dpi when imported into a 2D program, but you should be able to change the dpi setting. A normal screen sized bryce render at 72dpi will end up filling only part of the printed page if increased to 300dpi. A render that's made for print (too big to view on screen) and has the dpi set to 300 should fill the page nicely. Think of each pixel as being equal to a dot... Note that when increasing dimensions like this that rendering time goes up proportionally. Be prepared to have a computer tied up for at least a whole day when rendering for print.

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Thanks much for the help pauljs! ;-)

Or you can render the image to disk at 300 dpi. You'll notice that size in inches drops. Anyways, what you shouldn't do is render to 72dpi and then increase the resolution in Photoshop without unchecking the "Resampling" option, even if you render at four times the size. Yep, the size of the pic in pixels will increase, but you'll get a mushy pic, not really usable in print. Apropos the render time, I've put my Death Metal to render at 2650x3750 pixels at 300 dpi. Note the tense. It was the Thursday before last. It's still rendering and is at ... 68%. It renders 2-3 pixels at a time. It won't be ready in time for what I have in mind. But I'll keep it rendering. :-/ Argh. When will that Bryce 6 with a fast rendering engine be ready?

-- erlik

When the computers with Terrahertz processors come out. Heheh... Ummm... Yeah... ;)

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