How high do you render a poser scene for best quality? I'm used to rendering high and shrinking in PS, but I don't seem to be able to get it high enough. Do you use pixels or inches as the guide? How many pixels to the inch? I'm a bit at sea here. And a link to a previously discussed thread would be just fine. I tried searching on renders and almost broke the engine.

On most monitors, it's 72 dots (or pixels) per inch. On some, it's 96, so the dpi really depends on what kind of monitor you're going to display on. Insofar as "best quality", are you doing it for the screen or print? If for print, you can render at actual print size at 300dpi, and it will serve well for almost every commercial printer out there. It just depends on final usage.

and one more, if you save your image from poser for postwork or printing, use *.tiff images not *jpg.

I generally use bmp and transfer into PS. But I've been rendering at 1000 pixels and shrinking, and I'm still not getting the quality I hoped for. I was wondering if I should be rendering at 3000 by 3000 and shrinking. It worked in Bryce and others. Just wondering. For my fractals I always render at over 1600 to 2600, that's antialiased to BMP and then shrink for quality.

If I am going to render for print, I render at 300dpi, at the size that I want the print output to be, so in the final render, I go by inches instead of pixels, but always at 300dpi. Actually generally speaking, my final render of anything out of Poser is at 300dpi. Pendy

Oh forgot, always tif, never bmp or jpg as they do not put out the same quality as a master tif file does. (learned that when I worked at a huge graphic arts firm) Also when resizing, make sure that you have the correct resampling method checked, that will make a HUGE difference. Pendy

I was under the impression that the dots per inch as far as Poser is concerned irrelevant. If you want to print you image as a 10"x10" print at 300dpi, then in Poser your image should be 3000 pixels x 3000 pixels shouldn't it? If not how does the ratio from pixel to printed dot work?