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Understanding render size

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Understanding render size

PhotoView can generate images of almost any size and aspect ratio, however, there are some that are better than others. The basic ratio's are the following. 3 by 5, 16 by 9, 4 by 5, or a square image. Now you can render it any size you want, but a lot of times you want to choose a standard size ratio so it fits nicely, and you can cascade images across a layout. And they're all about the same size and aspect ratio, so they format well. We also need to look at the quality of a render. Which can have a signifigant effect on the time it takes to generate that image. Let's take a look at a few examples. What I've done here is I've gone into the Options panel in PhotoView. And I'll I've down is kept the images the same size. So I basically ran them all at 1200 by 1200. And I did run the one at 24 by 24. To give a good comparison. And then all I've done is changed the final render quality from good to better, best and then maximum. So let's take a look at the results. And here they are…

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