Memory Conservation/Consumption

[ksmeltzer]

Not to keep shamin' Juju on the subject, but I am AMAZED at how many graphic designers even don't understand that DPI only determines the print size of an image. I can't count the number of times I've sent out a rendering that was 72dpi since that's what comes out of max and I get an email back from the marketing graphics guy asking for a 300dpi version.

It's gotten to the point now where I just say "Sure! Check the FTP in a few minutes." and reset the dpi in Photoshop. It's so much easier than trying to convince them a 3200x2000 pixel image IS high enough for print, regardless of the 72dpi.

Thanks for the post, Juju. Now I've just gotta get everyone else in my office to conform to 8-bit texture resolution sizes.

Shaun

Too true... I'd be alot richer if I charged a donkey tax for those requests.

just ask them what linescreen they will be printing at and watch for the blank stare that comes over their face.... since that's what will really determine what resolution they need....

or my other personal favorite, is when trying to convince them that a jpg saved with maximum lossless compression is the same as the tif file that they somehow want e-mailed to them in 1 minute or less

[mike.edel]

or my other personal favorite, is when trying to convince them that a jpg saved with maximum lossless compression is the same as the tif file that they somehow want e-mailed to them in 1 minute or less

they are right - it isn't the same
jpeg 100 is not lossless (in a mathematical sense) - it is visually lossless
but sure, for emailing (a means of file transport that got to be forbidden forlarge files anyway) jpegs are the better choice

[GVC1123]

Save out to VRImage?

What does that mean?

[Da_elf]

it means exactly what it says.
(ask a stupid question...)