Still Images

[Elvis Deane]

Click on the little BG icon on the layer, which will hide the background image. Then hit the render button, choose an image format that supports transparency (PSD isn’t necessarily your best bet here even if you’re going into Photoshop. The PSD version supported in pI is a little old. Try PNG, TIF or TGA instead).

If you have the “remove black BG” setting checked in your Render Options (which is probably a good idea in your case since you’re hiding the background image), your image will look a little funny when you view it. It will look like normal once you copy and paste it onto a background image in PS though.

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Elvis Deane!
The particleIllusion FAQ
particleIllusion Resources and tutorial CD
Astounding Adventures

[Demarcusgd86]

Thanks for the help,

I got my transparency issue handled. now I’m having trouble with output size. Now when I render, the image is really small in comparison to the image in photoshop. How would I get the still image in PI to render for hi res (300-600px per inch in Photoshop)use. Normally I wouldn’t be such a pain but using PI for print work is new to me.

Once again thanks in advance!

[Elvis Deane]

pI can only render to the size of your desktop. For something that high res, you’ll probably have to use pIllusionRender. Just save your scene, then open it up in pIllusionRender (which should be installed in the same folder as pI). The render settings are similar to the ones in pI, but because it doesn’t use hardware accelleration, it usually takes a while longer to render.

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Elvis Deane!
The particleIllusion FAQ
particleIllusion Resources and tutorial CD
Astounding Adventures

[Demarcusgd86]

Once again thanks for your help,

But I’m beginning to think PI wasn’t meant to be used to create the kind of art I need. Whatever I render out at that size look like it has scanlines over it and is in black and white. And I’ve tweaked settings left and right in pillusionrender, but no dice. However when I render in the default size and 720×486, it works like a charm. Anyone use PI for still imagery have ant tips/tricks? I’d love to use it to create special FX in comic book meant for print.

[Elvis Deane]

There are certain size settings in pIrender that give funny results, and I have never figured out a pattern to it, but I really don’t use it that often. Try adding a pixel or two to the size (I’m not certain, but even numbers divisible by 4 may be best to aim for) and see if the lines vanish.

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Elvis Deane!
The particleIllusion FAQ
particleIllusion Resources and tutorial CD
Astounding Adventures

[Demarcusgd86]

Mr Deane,

Thanks a million for your help, I did the even numbers divisible by four thing, and it worked pretty consistently, so I think my problems are solved, thanks!

[Alan Lorence]

I’ve been trying to figure out that problem for a while. I knew that “weird” sizes caused problems with pIRender, but haven’t had time to investigate. Do you know if the width of the image was a problem, or was it the height?

If somebody could do a little investigation for me, and see if widths that aren’t a multiple of 4 are a problem, and if heights that aren’t a multiple of 4 are a problem. (Don’t try both at once.)

Thanks.

Alan.
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