How do I make my iRay renders sharper and crisper?

Ademnus

They look great but always feel very soft and blurred. How can I get some crispness? Do I just have to render at huge resolutions and resize in PS or am I not fiddling with the right settings in DS?

Oso3D

I've found going into GIMP and doing Sharpen at somewhere between 40-60 works very very well.

Yeah, it's annoying to feel beholden to postwork, but it's... easy and effective. So hey.

 

nonesuch00

Don't know except very layman terms vaguely what's involved so look at these links for better help:

http://www.daz3d.com/great-art-now-step-5-lights

http://www.versluis.com/2015/04/how-to-render-with-depth-of-field-in-daz-studio/

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/16085/render-profiles-for-daz-studio-4-5/p4

 

barbult

Reduce your Pixel Filter Radius in Render Settings>Filtering and experiment with selecting a filter other than Gaussian.

DrNewcenstein

Play around with the blur and other settings in the Render panel. I'm actually experimenting with the inverse - trying to get final renders to have a slight "dreamlike" smoothing post-process effect, because I despise post work and the need of it.

Tobor

Impossible to say without your posting an example. Maybe you have depth of field turned on, or you've activated the Bloom filter. 

What size do you render to? Even the best renders will lose resolution if you make them small and try to blow up their size.

Ademnus

barbult said:

Reduce your Pixel Filter Radius in Render Settings>Filtering and experiment with selecting a filter other than Gaussian.

That's the ticket. Many thanks.