Lightroom help please

[FiestaRed]

For some reason, I've lost the ability to save files as .jpeg.

I normally load into Lightroom, edit the RAW files as needed then go into CS4 for final changes. Today, after processing my first image, I tried to save it as a JPEG only to find out the option wasn't available.

Any ideas or help please?

 

[Marc]

They are probably in 16 bit mode, you need to change it to 8 bit. (image>mode>8 bit)

 

[mattyh]

That'd be my bet too Marc - It's caught me out a few times that one

 

[Marc]

That'd be my bet too Marc - It's caught me out a few times that one

Indeed, I do remember throwing a :annoyed: or two the first time.

 

[Flashman]

...and Adobe, realizing the frustration this was causing, have fixed it so CS5 now does the 8 bit conversion automatically

 

[FiestaRed]

Thanks all for the help, changing to 8 bit mode has allowed me to save in JPEG again. Can't imaging how the settings got changed though.

Can anyone help with the preffered settings they use for the external editor?

Mike

 

[nikonuser]

I've got the settings as:
Edit in Adobe CS5 (64 bit) - TIFF; Adobe RGB; 16 bit; 300 resolution and I've set the Additional External Editor to Adobe CS5 (32bit)

Dave

 

[FiestaRed]

Thanks for the help with that Dave. I'm pretty sure that's what my settings were in LR before I had the problem with not being able to save as JPEG in CS4.

Are you able to save as JPEG in CS5 or do you do it some other way?

Mike

 

[Flashman]

Are you able to save as JPEG in CS5 ...

Yes, you are.

Adobe realised that the fact you can't save a 16 bit image as a JPEG wasn't intuitive and caused a lot of :bang: as many users weren't aware that they had to convert to 8 bit before JPEG was allowed an an option. They fixed it in CS5 so you are now allowed save to JPEG from a 16 bit image... it just automatically converts the image to 8 bit for you.

 

[nikonuser]

Sure does

 

[FiestaRed]

Thanks for all the help, can I ask if I'm losing anything in the image, detail, colour etc if I stay with the 8 bit mode and save as a JPEG?

I tried changing the preferences settings to 16 bit. Starting by making adjustments in LR then opened the image in CS4, making further adjustments and then using the Save command in CS4 automatically creating a TIFF file. Finally closing CS4.

This way I found the new TIFF file that had been created had greatly increased in size from about 18MB to well over 60MB.

Mike