Exporting and rendering

To use the artwork that you create in Ultra Fractal for printing or on the web, you have to export it 

or render it to disk. This will create a bitmap image of the fractal, ready for further processing.

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You can directly export the image from a fractal window to a bitmap image. Click Export 

Image on the File menu, enter a file name, and click Save. See 

File formats

 for a 

description of the image file formats that are supported.

Usually though, you will want to render your artwork to disk. Rendering to disk provides the following 

benefits:

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Anti aliasing for improved image quality. This is especially important if you are preparing 

images for the web. See 

Anti aliasing

.

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More accurate color blending and merging. When a fractal is rendered to disk, the colors are 

calculated more accurately than the fractal window does, producing smoother, higher quality 

images.

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Support for large images. You can render images up to 100,000 by 100,000 pixels. Because 

the images are rendered to disk, the size is not limited by available memory (RAM).

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Entire 

parameter files

 can be rendered to disk with one command, producing multiple 

images.

For 

animations

, rendering is essential, since these cannot be exported normally.

Notes

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Exporting and rendering a fractal only saves the fractal as a bitmap image. You cannot open 

this image in Ultra Fractal. Always save your fractal as a 

parameter set

 or a 

fractal file

 as 

well to be able to open it in Ultra Fractal later.

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If you are using an evaluation copy of Ultra Fractal, exported and rendered images will be 

marked with Evaluation Copy text. To fully enable exporting and rendering images, you must 

purchase your copy of Ultra Fractal. See 

Purchasing Ultra Fractal

.

Next: 

Rendering images

See Also

Tutorial: Learning about transformations

Tutorial: Masking

Render jobs

Fractal windows

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