Dear friends! I've been rendering rarely later since have only a notebook in my posession and found out that I've got no hqi.exe renderer n my notebook. So I downloaded the flam3 renderer (flam3-2.7.2 downloaded from http://flam3.com/flam3-2.7.2.zip). But when I use my ACD See viewer to see the results of the render I get a surprisingly poor, not to say ugly quality of the image. (You can compare the ACD See printscreen below and the [ Photoshop version](http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1427185) - !?)

In order to evaluate the quality I have to view the picture from Photoshop only.
I tried to find the hqi.exe somewhere in internet but failed. Neither do I remember the place I had got it from. Can You tell me

1. where can I download the hqi.exe from or
2. what should I do with my render in flam3 to achieve the "ACD See-viewable" results (I remeber someone said the flam3 is better in some aspects)?
   Thank You in advance,
   Anthony.

(Apo 2.02 z on 64-bit AMD)

hqi.exe is a VERY old precursor to Flam3 - it probably won't render some of the newer variations properly either...

I think your problem may be with the png viewing settings in ACD See - especially if Photoshop is viewing the file correctly... you are rendering to png, aren't you?

T.

Quote - I think your problem may be with the png viewing settings in ACD See - especially if Photoshop is viewing the file correctly... you are rendering to png, aren't you?

 
Thank You for your son reply!
I render to *.PNG, of course ;-) Render options are:
Batches 1
Strips 1
Buffer depth 64 bit (I render on 64-bit AMD Turion machine, windows XP Pro SP2, 1GB RAM)
Quality not less than 800
Filter radius 0,4 - 0,9 depending on the size of the picture (1000 - 3000 pixels wide)
Oversample - 2
I am not sure the problem is in ACD See only. Some PNG files are not opened by Photoshop (though seen in ACD See) - Photoshop "complains":
"Could not complete Your request because the file-format module cannot parse the file".
It happens only with flam3 (when I used hqi.exe there as nothing of that kind).
Perhaps anybody can give me a link to hqi or send it to me via email (pontigary@fastmail.fm) - I will be grateful!
Thank You in advance.

Have you tried using the internal renderer in Apo itself - the little yellow cog button?

T.

i've got the same problem with corel photo-paint. i discovered, that this problem relates with the transparency information embedded in every png created with flam3. the freeware programs xnview perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.html and irfan view www.irfanview.net/ can write back png's without transparency, irfanview even in batch-mode.
at least in corel this solution works. with a little luck this should work with acdsee as well.
greets
torsten