Rendering for print with 300dpi will get you into trouble really quickly
when the size of the deliverable goes up.
A while ago I was asked to deliver a render/PS file for a banner, and
with the 300dpi request PS wasn't able to create the file as it was too
large.
With some discussing I was able to deliver in a regular 72 pdi and was
able to keep the filesize and renders to a more manageable size.
Most large format printers interpolate anyway, and calculate in lpi, not
dpi.
So always discuss the whole thing beforehand before starting ridiculous
large renders that make no sense.
And the render a bit lower and rescale/sharpen in PS tip from Morten
will work most times, as 3D renders are very sharp by default.
You can get away with a lot here.
cheers!
Rob
Rob Wuijster
E [email protected]
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On 5-7-2017 10:56, Morten Bartholdy wrote:
When you say a cover for a book publication and say 1200 x 250 mm, that is a
very large book. Is it for a poster or banner perhaps?
Anyway, having done a fair amount of renders for print, in my experience you
rarely need to render bigger than 5-6.000 pixels wide even for large prints.
The larger the final print, the further away people stand to look at it, so the
relative viewing distance (relative to size of image) sort of remains the same.
We recently rendered for A3 which is 5040 x 3564 pixels at 300 dpi and our
client printed a A1 poster from it which was pretty sharp and clean even on
closer inspection.
BTW your calculations are a decimal off it seems - 1200 x 250 mm is 14.400 x
3000 pixels at 300 dpi. For posters and banners you can easily do with 150 dpi
actual resolution.
I would render something like 7200 x 1500 pixels and scale it up to 14400
pixels in Photoshop, apply a bit(!) of smart sharpen and deliver that.
Good luck.
Morten
Den 3. juli 2017 klokken 01:12 skrev Nicole Beeckmans-Jacqmain
<[email protected]>:
do you know of a good introduction to how to install add-ons on xsi?
i have used the file>add-on>install and installed all versions of Redshift
for softimage2011 till 2014sp2
this for user add-on, then aswell factory add-on.
now even mental ray doesnot work anymore!! and Redshift doesnot even show
up in render manager tabs.
yet it seems installed. i think i will need help from somewhere. i will
first need to uninstall what i did.
ยง
by the way i tell you about why i have decided to test/buy Redshift:
my "client" want for a book publication, a cover with my old Softimage
scenes(from a movie to be published aswell). big: 1200mm x 250mm
i have learned by browsing that to get as required a dpi of 300 in TIFF
ill compute to get a 144212,59 pixels on x & 30236,22 pixels on y
resolution. [ 1221 x300 (dpi) / 2.54 + 256 x 300 (dpi) / 2.54 ]
- mental ray was crashing, not even ready to compute one percent of that
size it seemed. i got "unspecified errors red messages"
so i was wondering knowing that Redshift is capable to do this, to add-on
it.
can you help me with a link or a handy intelligence of my inexperienced use
of the machine?
thank you a lot.
2017-07-03 0:29 GMT+02:00 Nicole Beeckmans-Jacqmain <[email protected]>:
ok sorry for talking before daring.
happy night!
Nicol.
2017-07-03 0:21 GMT+02:00 Nicole Beeckmans-Jacqmain <[email protected]>
:
Hello List.
I am sure you will want to deride my ignorance: I'have downloaded the
demo version of Redshift v2.0 (for use with Softimage 2015 latest availabl)-
I have never used a plug-in or an add-on - in my life.. I would not want
to cause a destruction in my Softimage perfect install.
the xsiaddonextractor, if i click on it, just opens as a commandprompt
blackwindow a quarter of a second, then closes.
same with "redshiftcompatibilitycheck" file.
do i need to access the downloaded files via xsi instead? how so?
i have Windows 8.1 with 64bits and a up-to-date computer.
thank you for any help,
Nicol.
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