Hi,
I intend to import a picture and print from layout with that picture as background. Is there any setting I should check to make sure the picture is not being compressed by Rhino when imported?
I expect this to work as opening the background image in Photoshop and pasting my Rhino drawing on top of it. Obviously trying to do it all inside Rhino and skip Photoshop. Thanks!
The largest image I’ve used in Picture was 6960x4640 and it was not compressed.
It appears that Picture creates a Plane Surface with a texture. The maximum texture size available can be checked in Options > View > OpenGL For example my desktop system shows:
In Options > Advanced there is a setting for compressing textures, and the default appears to be False.
You could test to see if your image is compressed when used in Picture.
Picture using the image.
Textures and select the picture object just created. The size of the texture/image will be shown.
Compare to the size of the imported image.
Hi,
I don’t know for sure but I always thought there is some kind of compression used in the picture command? Or perhaps that was/is in certain versions of Rhino?
Also it might depend more on your export settings depending if it’s a pdf or a png image format you’re trying to export. If you re-render the image in cycles you can upscale the dpi in settings. You can try upping the dpi higher than 600 dpi when you print your layout.
I use Rhino to crop and align photos of work that gets resent to the client as pdfs for review. We might photograph a wall by walking along it and in Rhino I’ll crop and align the photos together to show the one composited wall as a pdf file. It’s so much faster than photoshop but no color correction or cloning tools if one needs that.
RM
I have not seen any changing of the sive of the image used in the Picture command since it was introduced in V6.
The Picture command has nothing to do with size of exported images.
