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Lumion 3D Best Practices

By : John Brown, Ciro Cardoso, Ciro Cardoso
Book Image

Lumion 3D Best Practices

By: John Brown, Ciro Cardoso, Ciro Cardoso

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Lumion 3D Best Practices
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The different file formats to export from Lumion


Starting with the Photo mode, technically you are constrained to four sizes, as shown in the following screenshot:

What if you need a different image size? The only option is to render a bigger image and then resize it.

Tip

Resizing the image will also contribute to creating a sharper image.

The only downside is that if you want to do some color correction and other adjustments, you only can export an 8 bit image (which doesn't give you much room for tweaking colors) and use these formats:

  • Joint Photographic Experts Group: *.jpg

  • Bitmap: *.bmp

  • DirectDraw Surface: *.dds

  • Portable Network Graphics: *.png

  • Truevision Graphics Adapter: *.tga

As mentioned before, this is one option to export a still image and although the Photo mode provides a friendly interface, there is a better option that makes all the processes easier.

Using the Movie mode to export still images

The question is: is it possible for you to use the Movie mode to export still images...