[caryjames]

Hello Everyone: I am a complete novice in the Graphic design side of things but have just recently came across an issue that I would like to clarify.

Typically what resolution would you want/need to have high quality printed material. I getting to the point where I could use my rendered scenes in printed form and don't want to waste my time rendering scenes at a resolution that is fine for the web but not fine for print.

Also, if I am rendering a blowup of a scene and I increase the resolution will that increase the physical size of my scene?

I am currently rendering a scene using the render blow up button. After I selected the blow up region it is rendering at a resolution of 747 x 469. Is this too small/low quality to be effective in print?

Thanks in advance for all your advice.
Cary

[Bubbaloo]

I'm no expert but that seems really small to me. My general rule of thumb is to render as high quality as RAM and time will allow. A render that reaches s.l. 10 at 4000 px looks much better than a render that reaches s.l. 10 at 800 px.

[caryjames]

Thanks Bubbaloo. I am going to post over on the Rhino forum and ask JD et al a few questions. Thanks!
Cary

[jespi]

Hello Cary,
Well, what i normally do the next. First of all l decide which will be the paper's size, because is not the same to print in A4 that in A1. After that i open photoshop and l create a new document. That document need a resolution of 267 dpi (which is the optimal resolution to print photograph between A6 to A0) and in width and height value l enter a number proportional to what my render will have, i mean, if my camera is 800x600 i enter 800x600 or 1600x1200.... Them l hit OK, and go to image-image size. There you can see what will be the optimal size to print at the resolution you have enter before. All you have to do is turn on constrain proportion and resample image and change the width or height value[document size box], never the resolution value. All done, all you have to do is copy the values you get in the pixel dimensions to your camera settings.
Hope make sense.

[caryjames]

Thanks Jespi- I have a lot to figure out with respect to printing and resolution but your post definitely helped. Thanks for taking the time to respond
Cary

[jespi]

You are wellcome Cary. If you have more question I'll try to help you.

Have a nice day,


José