Higher Quality Renders

[brysonwhitedesign]

So, I started a post about how to get higher quality renders. I'm still at a loss. Using purchased cloud credits to make renders, the best quality I've gotten is no better than I've gotten from my local renders. Usually they end up worse.

For example, here's a screen shot of my design pre-render.

And here's the rendered image using the Mobile 2048 x 1536 setting.

I'm in the middle of a job for a client. If anyone can help, that'd be awesome (@karina.harper !)

Thanks!

[ryan.bales]

I'm thinking we should at least see if @TrippyLighting  has any insight. He does some pretty fantastic things with rendering. 

[jeff_strater]

I am very far from an expert on rendering, but this looks like a depth-of-field problem to me.  Can you check in the setup whether you have this turned on, what the settings are, and where the center of focus is selected to be?

[brysonwhitedesign]

Hey Ryan and Jeff,

Thanks for the input. My Depth of Field is turned on and the default "blur" setting is 1.000. Is there a way to know how changing this setting will affect the render before actually rendering?

So far I've used about 30 of my cloud credits and haven't gotten anything I can use. I'd sure like to figure this out!

Thanks!

[ryan.bales]

Eeek, well lets not use them all or if we can - any more till we come up with more ideas. Is that render sample zoomed in or is that the full size picture? the one where its blurry that is. 

[brysonwhitedesign]

Hey Ryan,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, that image is the full size image--not zoomed. Jeff's advice to check the depth of field and the blur setting helped. I was able to get a non-blurry render. It's still about the same quality as the local render, so now I'm just trying to get higher quality renders.