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Mozziephotography

Mozziephotography

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Help needed, again! I want to transfer the images I take at a running event to my Wix web site. I've worked out how to set up a thumbnail gallery and it looks okay. What's the quickest way of getting them from LR to the site without losing quality. I'm confused with the export settings:

One YouTube guy says: Resize 1024 or 2048 on the long side and 72 pixels

WIX say:
  • A quality of 11 or more on Photoshop scale (or equivalent).
  • A resolution of at least 3,000px on the shortest side of your picture (the width for a portrait, the height for a landscape).
  • A maximum size of 15MB
Help please.
 
What's your intention? Are you just sharing them or selling them?
 
Sharing them - I raise money for the local mountain rescue with them. I can see where you are coming from
 
If you're making them available to download to print I'd upload them at full resolution, but the upload will take a while and do you have any restrictions on webspace with Wix?

Else if they are just for viewing I's stick to the 1024px as they'd mostly be viewed on a pc or phone so you wouldn't need anything bigger.
 
What's your limits with Wix? If you have one of the cheaper packages (like me) you'll have bandwidth limits in which case I'd be very careful about the amount of images you put up, and the quality of them. Big, high quality images are going to eat through your limit quickly if you have a lot of visitors.

My suggestion:

2000px on longest side, ignore ppi - it's irrelevant for web/screen use (and LR ignores it if you set pixel sizes as dimensions). This will still give someone a decent 6x4 print if they right click. I set mine to 70% quality and can't see an appreciable loss of anything which puts out a 750Kb file. This is a good balance of size & quality vs bandwidth.

At this ratio, 100 views of image(s) will eat 75Mb of bandwidth (3.75% of your 2Gb limit if you're on a metered package) so you can work out how good this is for you depending on page views and numbers of images. If you're not metered - happy days.

I wouldn't go bigger than 1Mb per image. Your viewers will start to see long loading times if they're on slower connected devices.
 
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