Lightroom - Share your export settings.

Orange Peel

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I'm looking for information on the optimal settings for exporting a photograph to the web and for print.

Usually for the web I set the maximum length to 1024 pixels, jepg with 300DPI and 100% quality. However this leaves most files being around 400K. I've lowered the quality to 50% and not seen a huge decrease in image quality but the file size is usually less than 200K so better for uploading.

What settings do you use when exporting for web (flickr etc) and what settings do you use for prints (DPI etc)

If you have any other tips I'd appreciate them?

Thanks :)
 
For prints it depends on what size I'm printing them. I usually use 300ppi at print size 16x24 etc.

For web I usually go for 800px, but more often than not I upload full size to Flickr and let them do the resize.

To be honest there are really any magic settings for exporting from Lightroom, it really depends on what you want to do with the image when it is exported. (and if you think you will export with those settings again make a preset)
 
I read somewhere that in most situations 85% quality will be virtually identical to 100% but with significantly smaller file sizes. Not tried as low as 50%.
 
I have a whole load of presets for different output situations. Jpeg @ 60% to 800px gives quality good enough for the web with small file sizes. For the prints 100% @ full size - and various other options depending on which paper or library I'm sending to. Most pictures on TP are far bigger than they need to be and just waste bandwidth.
 
I'm going to upload some test pictures as I think it would be interesting to see what people think of the quality at different levels.
 
For just general web stuff I use
2011-05-24_160956.jpg
 
That's great Jimmy. I really need to get Mogrify sorted for adding boarders.
 
Yeah Mogrify does make it 100% easier/better....though Lr3 comes close.
 
Is there a boarder plugin withing LR3? I've got it coming soon :)
 
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