2 m x 3m banner render size ?

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Hi Guys,

just need some advice please, im doing some renders for a client who needs some renders done to fit on a 2 m x 3m banner, can anyone tell me please what size to render from max? the exact pixels for that size would be 19,685 by 23,622… (!"£$%^&%££) obviously im not going to be able to render at that res, so does anyone have any advice please?..

Natty

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Banners don’t need to be higher than 100 dpi, because no-one will be able to tell the difference.

Presentation boards, 150dpi.

Hand-held prints, 300dpi

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most of the times, banner will be seen from more than 3-4 meters distance, so, my case, i just render it 6000 width and blow it up. no complaint from client so far.

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Thanks Dynedain, but what size do i need to render?

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thanks Dominique ..

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iv rendered stuff out at 4k wide, and the client (bless here little cotton socks) blew it up to fit on the side of a 2 story building…it looked fine, I would think that it must have been 50-100 dpi, but at 10 feet away it looked alright.

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3m = 118.11 inches
2m = 78.74 inches

100 dpi (dots per inch) * 118.11 = 11811 px
100 dpi (dots per inch) * 78.74 = 7874 px

So for 3m X 2m, you’d render at most 11,811 px by 7,874px

You could probably get away with even lower… 72dpi would probably work fine.

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We print signs and banners in-house and 72dpi would be just fine for a banner that size. Just make sure the sign company prints it with whatever high-quality option they have in their print settings.

For a future FYI: In Max, Rendering menu → Print Size Wizard. Set your width, height and dpi.

5669 x 8503

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72 dpi is probably fine, you could probably go even lower depending on how far away it’s viewed from. If you are adding text to it though I’d lay the whole thing up in illustrator or inDesign so the text can stay as vector linework and come out razor sharp.

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Thanks guys … great help !

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There are some decent plugins around that resize images in PS, and do a fairly good job as long as you dont go too nuts… like only twice as big.

image fractal pro I think is one of them. Worth a look :wink:
Just means you can render half size and blow it up nicely.

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I think daforce means Genuine Fractals (Pro?). Another option is BlowUp (http://www.alienskin.com/blowup/index.html) I think both have demo’s available.

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yeah thats it… I knew it was “something” fractals.. and the pro bit.. well that just sounded right :lol:

Thanks

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Seems like everything is either a “Pro”, “Premium” or “Ultimate” these days. Ummmm…V-Ray Advanced :slight_smile:

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:lol: you gotta add a bit of pizazz to your products dont ya :slight_smile:

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Hehe, V-Ray is ‘Advanced’, because it also had a ‘Basic’ version in the beginning :slight_smile:

Best regards,
Vlado

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I do never render bigger than 5000 px! I also made a banner of 8 meter length from a 5k rendering. the quality was great! the plotter resizes it automatically. :slight_smile:

best regards
themaxxer

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Just finnished a 12’x8’ (3.66mx2.44m) for 8000px, does the job.

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just a quick googling

http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/article\_pages/print\_viewing\_distance.html

Harry G

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Just while we’re banding around resolutions, I’ve just had to render a fully textured figure consisting of nearly 4’000’000 polys at render time, with glossy reflections & GI at 14’000 pixels high.

Which thanks to Vray (& the .vrimg format), I actually managed to do in one hit!

:smile: