Image Quality

[bfguz]

I've been playing with both the Free version and the demo and can not seem to get the sharpness and clarity of many of the images I see posted here. It looks pretty good in the vfb, but when I save it and open it it is all blurry. Using Vray mats & lights.

What settings should I be looking at to improve? I've tried irradiance map settings etc. and still no luck.

[nully]

if it looks good in the vfb - then there is no reason why it shouldnt look good as a file - save as png or tiff for lossless compression

[pengo]

Maybe..........

Maybe you have the gamma value set to 1.8 (preferences panel) or something else to output images it gives to the saved images a whashout color and brightness!!

I hope you'll get the best from VRAY !

bye

[dejaVu]

If you are saving out of 3ds max using jpg format, then don't. As mentioned, save as TIF or TGA or PNG instead.

Max's jpg encoding is crap.

[bfguz]

You guys nailed it. Adjusted gamma and tried tif.

Dejavu - after this experiment to say the jpg encoding is crap is an understatement.

Consistently the best work I've seen is Vray and that's why I'm here. Great board too. Thanks a lot. I will post when I feel worthy.

[Dusan_Pavlicek]

When it comes to converting images to JPEG, I always use JPEG Imager. It is a great program that supports not only JPEGs but also PNGs and GIFs.