So What Do You Exactly Refer To As "renders?"

I happened to stumble upon this website through photoshop tutorial pages and stuff, and well, I'm kinda confused on what a "render" is. To my understanding, rendering is what you do in 3d modeling & animation software, whether it's compiling your final animation or just making a still picture out of your project, but I'm seeing a lot of stuff here being called "renders" when all they are are pictures of something put against a white/grey background.

Am I missing something here? What do you guys call renders?

Btw, I don't hang around graphics boards that often, so I'm obviously not up to date on the slang and stuff. :unsure:

 

Chyeah on here we split the renders you think of
with renders as in a stock image or picture cut out.

3D renders is like Cinema 4D and 3Ds max work
And a render is something like...the pingu in my sig

 

So, a render is basically a stock picture?

 

But with the background cut out.

 

That has been cut out...chyeah .

 

Correct. Bit backwards but most peole call them that here.

 

cool, thx for the info

 

All a render is a pic with the backround cut from it. So it is easier to use in sigs.. which i dont really get. most of my sigs are used with non rendered images..