Poor Quality

[chrisr]

I have attached a rendered image of an unfinished model I am working on. This was rendered at High quality, at 300dpi, taking an hour to render, file size at 117KB.
Can someone please explain how come the file size ends up being so small.
Why is this image still of very poor quality, am I doing something wrong. I have tried many different settings, with the same result.

As in earlier threads, I printed the image to pdf, opened it in photoshop and saved as a jpg. still with no better results.

Any ideas, pointers will be helpful.

[Revitaoist]

You've got 300 DPI , but how many inches is it????? Scale it up!!!!

[chrisr]

Inches???????????

In the render panel in Revit I have150dpi, the size is 186mmX67mm ( 1099pixels X 397).

Scale up, where?? In Revit or after the image is taken into Photoshop??

[sbrown]

You need to adjust your crop size prior to rendering. Your size is only 4 x 6" so its very small. You want to set your crop to your final output size. then dont use high, its too slow and not any better than draft with a couple tweeks, take the draft setting, copy to custom, edit the anti-aliasing to min. 6 and enable soft shadows and re-render at 150 dpi printed. You'll be much happier.

[sbrown]

PS your sun angle is poor so it makes it look really bad. Try diff. times of day.

[chrisr]

Thanks for your tips, will try them out tomorrow, and see how it looks.

Thanks

[MikeJarosz]

Are you using screen quality or print quality?

I use screen quality to get things right, then switch to print quality for presentation. If you are printing screen quality renderings, I'm not suprised you are disappointed.

BTW, your hardware matters. I have a 64 bit Dell. The screen quality renderings take a few minutes. I have allowed the print quality to run several days, and it was worth it.

[chrisr]

I am using print quality. I have increased my crop region size along with a few other settings. Rendering now, so will see how it looks,

[Teresa.Martin]

I would up the reflections as wells indirect illumination bounces, precision and smoothness.