looksgood opened this issue on Nov 19, 2002 ยท 10 posts
looksgood posted Tue, 19 November 2002 at 5:49 PM
Ok, when I render something and save it as a jpg there are squigle lines and distortions around the figure. How do I get rid of that so that I can keep the good view I made in the render?
PabloS posted Tue, 19 November 2002 at 6:00 PM
If you're not careful, you'll end up saving jpg files at something like 40. When the save dialog pops up, look at the very bottom. There's a window there where you can change the quality. Mine is at 100.
praxis22 posted Tue, 19 November 2002 at 6:38 PM
You get far better compression of you set the quailty in the 95-99 range, at 100 you may as well save it as a tiff as a jpg. You can get some very decent (and small) images at 99% especially if the scene has a lot of black :P later jb
grosporina posted Tue, 19 November 2002 at 8:57 PM
Actually, at 100 I find the images saved are still way smaller than they would be as a TIF, by almost a factor of 10 sometimes.
EricofSD posted Tue, 19 November 2002 at 9:58 PM
That's definitely a compression problem. I save as psd for photoshop and work there. Then I set the compression ratio in either PS or Image Ready.
queri posted Tue, 19 November 2002 at 10:06 PM
In Image Ready I can usually save at 60 without problems-- 80 or 75 if I really want to. Check my gallery, I dont' think I have any jpeg pixelation-- except before I learned to used alpha channels on the damned rendered backgrounds. If you need to use 100, you haven't got a very effective jpg maker. IMO. Emily
kawecki posted Wed, 20 November 2002 at 12:48 AM
Rendering with Poser I save with 90%, with PaintShop I use 15 (the inverse 100 - 85%), quality above 90% doesn't make any visual difference, so saving with 100% is a vaste of filesize. The only problem with jpeg is when you have small pictures 200x200 or less like thumbs, here you need to increase the quality to 95-98% for very small sizes and many times gif produce better results.
Stupidity also evolves!
ToolmakerSteve posted Wed, 20 November 2002 at 11:45 PM
I hate what Poser does with JPEG output - and its file size is huge for a given quality - so I always save at 100%, and re-compress in Photoshop. I recorded some Photoshop macros to re-save a file at JPEG 7 or 8. They look as good as Poser's 90%, at a fraction of the size! -- ToolmakerSteve
queri posted Thu, 21 November 2002 at 12:55 AM
Don't you save in Tiff with Poser? It's much better output and there's the benefit of the alpha channel. Emily
JohnRender posted Thu, 21 November 2002 at 7:53 AM
Save the file as Photoshop (psd), then open it in Photosjop and use Photoshop to compress the file: either Save As a jpg, or if it's small enough, Save For Web as a gif.