Does anyone know what dpi d|s renders at?  and how to achieve a 300 dpi with it?
Thanks for your time. 

I have only gotten 72 dpi
I have to re-sample the image to achieve a 300dpi
If there is a way I would like to know.
If you render in Bryce you can set the dpi and the size
before render.

Ostensibly, D|S renders come out at 72 dpi, but it doesn't matter. If you need 300 dpi, change it in your image editor after rendering. What you really need to worry about is that you render the image at a large enough size so that when you change the dpi afterwards, you have a big enough image to print.

Thats true.
I will render slightly larger and save as a tif file.
Open in Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3 and RESAMPLE
setting the dpi to 800 and setting the output size to what
I want.
Warning 800 gives you a very large file size
300 will still give you good clarity and smaller file size.

Thanks for the info.  I guess I will do large renders instead of the 800x800 squares I have been doing.

Don't resample - render the right number of pixels and then chnage the PPI to the desired value without chnaging the pixel dimensions. Actual resampling, changing the number of pixels, will always slightly degrade the image.

Richard, "Resample" is just the badly named menu you have to go to in Corel Photopaint. Once in there you have to tick the equally misleading "Maintain Original Size" tick box and then type the new dpi! :biggrin:

Ah, I see. I'd forgotten how unhelpful the labels were in PhotoPaint - as I recall I had to test the options out to see which maintained the pixel dimensions every time I used the function in version 7SE, which was my main image editor many years ago.

I find this free dpi calculator useful :)
http://www.mihov.com/sw/en/dc.php

Do  bit of math before you render, and figure out where you want to print the image (CMYK publication - 300dpi, injket or photo lab where you can get away with 150dpi for the size, etc.) and enter those pixels.

Example  - you're gonna have it published, and it's gonna be an 8x10 that they'll need at 300 dpi. What you enter into Bryce for render size is 2,400x3,000 pixels. It will render them at 72 dpi but that doesn't matter - dpi is a "parameter" while the actual "pixels" are the image. Simply change the parameter to 300 dpi afterwards in Photoshop or PhotPaint.

In Photoshop, "Resample" actually means something which is why you turn it off or it'll mess with your pixels.

Hope this helps-
-Lew ;-)