SaveImage

Saves an image to a file. The following extensions are supported: jpg, jpeg, png, tif, tiff, exr.

Tip

By default SaveImage node does nothing unless you click Compute Current Frame or Compute Frame Range button.

Inputs

File Name:

a file path to save to. Supports Path Interpretation.

Create Intermediate Directories:

if set, nonexistent directories in the file path will be created

Color Space:

Use Format’s Default: if File Name extensions are any of jpg, jpeg, png, tif, tiff, save in sRGB. If extension is exr, save in Linear.
Unchanged: save as Linear, if image was linearized at loading.

Pixel Type:

convert image to exact pixel type before writing to disk. Check the Pixel Types section in the LoadImage doc.

Compute Current Frame:

computes the node at the current frame and saves the result to a file.

Compute Frame Range:

opens Compute Frame Range Dialog to render node graph in multiple background processes.

Compression:

None: save tiff with no compression. The fastest option
LZW: loseless. Effective for lower bit-depth images and images with large flat areas
ZIP: loseless. Effective for higher bit-depth images
PackBits: loseless. Effective for large tiled or repetative images, may increase final file size, due to using RLE

Compression:

None: save exr with no compression
ZIP: loseless, fast decompression, slower compression. Effective for textures
ZIPS: as ZIP, but uses one scan line at a time
RLE: fast compression and decompression speed. Effective for images with large flat areas. Effective for photographic images
PIZ: loseless, same compression and decompression speed. Effective for scanline based or large tiled images
PXR24: lossy. Effective for images with wide value ranges, such as depth buffers
B44: lossy, real time decompression
B44A: as B44, but more effective for images with large flat areas
DWA-A: lossy, compresses to the smallest file size
DWA-B: same as DWA-A, but uses larger number of scanlines