Fuzzy images when I save out

[Stewart Reid]

Hi,

 

Fuzzy images when I save out

 

I'm fairly firing in the threads now. Anyway, can anyone please help with this problem. When I save a render out of max 9 (mental ray) to a jpeg, bitmap or eps etc.etc. the quality does not appear great.

 

I use Photosop Elements 6 to open my image and usually print to A4 but I've tried loads of variations and can't get a really crisp sharp image. It appears somewhat blurry. The printers I use are not the problem (OKI laser, Konica Minolta laser and Designjet 800 ps).

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Stewart Reid

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I only save images out of Max to a 16 bit Tif, Targa, or floating point EXR. Jpeg out of Max is crap.

Edited January 29, 2009 by Crazy Homeless Guy

[Stewart Reid]

Thank you for that Travis.

 

I just tried saving to the various formats you mentioned. I have also opened them all in Photoshop Elements 6.0 apart from the exr file. I won't actually be able to print them until tomorrow so will find out how clear they are then.

 

The TIF files came out really tiny even altough I saved different sizes of them. The one that seemed to work best was the targa @ 32 and 16 bits. Will print tomorrow and let you know.

 

Thanks again,

 

Stewart

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

If they are blurry when they print, then you probably need to render at a higher resolution. Minimum for a print is 150ppi, Though I like to keep it closer to 200ppi. This means that a 8x10 print at 200ppi would need to be 2000 pixels by 1600 pixels.

[Stewart Reid]

:confused:

 

Grainy problem now

 

Thanks for the tip on resolution Travis. This has helped a lot.

 

My next problem is that my renderings appear noisy. Please see the house I'm working on - attachment '2000 x 1501'. At a distance it looks not too bad I think, however when I print and when you see the 'close up' attachment there is almost a grainyness to the image which I can't seem to get rid of. Very annoying !

 

Please see my other attachments for the settings I've used. Could it be something to do with my sampling quality (4 to 16) ????

 

A final point, my render window is closed and I'm saving direct to a 16 bit targa file.

 

Thanks so much in advance.

 

Stewart

 

ps - any comments and criticism would be grateful. I know my grass is a bit bald in places

Edited February 5, 2009 by Stewart Reid