Hi.

Is there a bug in Vue 5 Esprit that stops you from saving a rendered image at the DPI setting that it was rendered at?

In my case last night I discovered that after rendering (when I was doing some postwork on an image) that it was 72 dpi (screen res) when in fact I had set it to 300 for the render in Vue.

Upon seeing this I did some Vue rendering tests making sure that the settings were at 300 dpi, then I saved off each resultant image and loaded it up into Photoshop.

In every case no matter what image filetype I saved it off as from Vue, they were nearly all read in and treated as 72 dpi.
A .PNG file came in at a close 299.999 dpi though.  ;-)
The only exception was saving it off as a .BMP which then retained the correct DPI setting.

Weird huh?

With graphics programs I've always saved off files as LZH compressed .TIF files as it keeps quality and saves file space. - But TIF's (compressed or not) keep coming into Photoshop at 72dpi

Now I know about the reasons for rendering for screen and print but I render at 300 for future useage, not to mention little odd bits n' bobs I have for Photoshop useage at 300dpi most notably credits layers and such.

At the moment I'm saving off renders as .BMP's to keep the correct DPI setting.

I'm currently running  version 5.08-02 of Vue 5 Esprit.

Thanks.

I saw this in Infinite too, but actually, all is alright: In Vue you set a certain render dimension, with 300 dpi, open in PS, and see that you actuallyhave a render that is at 72 dpi, and not 300, but the size is a lot bigger than the one you rendered at in Vue. So just do this: in PS, image, image size, change the dpi to 300, but be sure to uncheck resample, and voilà, a 300 dpi render at at the exact size you wanted.

Well, dpi number does not matter at all - important is the absolute number of pixels you render. On which area they are spread out can easily be setup in Photoshop. And when you do 300 dpi it means that you need it for print and for that you have to change color mode anyway to CMYK.

I know, when you set it up with 300 dpi it should "keep" them. But as long as it can be changed sooo easily i would say E-on should concentrate on more important issues.

Hello, zap326,
You are right about 72 dpi.
I'm laughing about myself : I never noticed that before, never printed from inside Vue.
When printout will be 3oo dpi on 21x29,7 cm, I know I need about 3ooo x 4ooo pixels of base material, to allow some pushing around and cropping...
I adjust colour levels and dpi in PS to what the final document asks for,
and save all material for that page in another separate folder, before assembling (when it's done, ev'rything used for this page goes to cd or dvd, off the hard disk),
so I never worried about Vue's 72 dpi... ;-)