Image Save Quilty

iv been using render next for 6+ years. and just want to know what is the best way to save an image with no loss of quality. as my renders are so crisp but my save image not so good. there still good but not as good as the render nxt window.

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Permalink Reply by Richcat on July 2, 2014 at 2:57am

Hi John

After rendering In the Save Render Image window you have the option to save it as as png - which is lossless data compression, so you should not lose any quality. That what I use if printing etc.

Another thing to check is if you are currently saving as a jpeg, is that there is a setting in the Setup Options page see below at the bottom that sets the quality of the jpeg. The max you can set it is 95%.

You can also on that page set the default save Auto Image Format, if you want to set it to set to png all the time.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on July 2, 2014 at 8:44am

Could the problem be that Images that appear fine on the computer screen don't look as good when printed because they need to be created at a bigger resolution when printed?

Or are you saying that the same image that you see in the rendering window looks better that the saved image looks in an image editor like PhotoShop, or when placed in a web page or a Word document?

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Permalink Reply by brooks john on July 2, 2014 at 5:00pm

the rendered image in the rendered box look's way sharper then the saved image. no matter what format i save it as.
i set my resolution high, use sketch up aspect ratio and set the Y: between 2000-3000. and let a good 300 passes.

I'm talking like photo shop or just any image viewer/editor. the dpi or something changes a lot form the render box to the saved image.

ill render an image now take a screen shot and also post the saved image for comparison tomorrow.

i always save as .png or transparent .png like Richcat suggested above. but sort of something i have had issues since the start.
show a client on screen how sexie there house will be and then save the image and dpi is lost.

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Permalink Reply by brooks john on July 3, 2014 at 10:49pm

I think it may be to high of Resolution. and ill just stick to around the 1920x1080 mark. and give that ago

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on July 7, 2014 at 3:42pm

We don't set any DPI in the images that we save. Different photo packages keep the DPI in different parts of the image file, and assign different settings for files without the DPI information set. PhotoShop seems to use 72 DPI, and Paint sees to default to 96 DPI.

We never found a standard to use, so we just render to a specific pixel size and let you do the math to figure out what that pixel size should be for the image software that you use.