Losing Image Quality with Lightroom Export to FlickR

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I have researched as many threads as i can and tried many export options but still struggling to upload photos without losing image quality to FlickR

I just did a test and exported the same photo 3 times at different settings:

Lightroom Version 5.3
sRGB
90% Quality
Sharpening - Standard
300DPI

1. Image Full Size (No resizing selected)
2. Image Resized to Long Edge 1024 px
3. Image Resized to Long Edge 800 px

I then uploaded them to FlickR and checked the quality.

1. Image 1 (full size) looks sharp and appears as it does in Lightroom, however when you select the resized version whether it be 640, 800, 1024 to post in forums for example, they are always lacking in image quality. Almost blurry and lacking colour.

2. Image 2 loses all quality at every size
3. Image 3 loses quality at every size.

Any clues or suggestions? Find it annoying as all my images look nothing like they do in Lightroom once posted in forums :(

If it makes a difference my Pro account expired and now on the standard FlickR account if that effects the upload quality?!
 
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What colour settings a you using, srgb, adobe? I've had issues with that before
 
Yes just to confirm these are the export settings:

Lightroom Version 5.3
sRGB
90% Quality
Sharpening - Standard
 
Suggest you up the resolution to that of an iPad, i.e. 2048 for the long side and 264 pip. Keep jpg quality at 100% but limit the file size to say 2MB. This is easy to do in the export panel in LR. Are you shooting RAW or jpg?
 
Files are shot RAW & JPEG, but RAW edited and saved as JPEG. Colour is def sRBG.

They are exporting from Lightroom onto my macbook fine and but every photo I'm uploading to FlickR seems to be losing quality. Im just thinking if i can do a screenshot to show what i mean.

The colour is no longer an issue thats fine. But its the sharpening which doesnt seem to be there once uploaded to flickR

Neil - i have sent you a PM when you get a moment.
 
Still getting problems with this :(

Uploaded one image to 500px absolutely fine so it definitely seems like a FlickR thing. Any help is much appreciated :)

Tom

This is a FlickR link to an example - https://www.flickr.com/photos/75574194@N03/13362615404/

As you see that image is fine however clicking the resized 800 version it loses quality, get the same copying the image link into a new forum thread.
 
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Really can't see what you're referring to on your example buddy. The resized versions obviously lose quality- you're throwing most of the pixels away. The colours look the same to me at all sizes.
I don't understand why you're uploading at only 90% quality?
 
As i mentioned above the colour isn't the issue. Its the loss of sharpness. When i upload the image to FlickR, the mini preview in photostream looks fine. If i click on that photo it opens up the full image which again on full screen looks sharp but its then when i either click on "other sizes" and select for example 800 or 1024 long edge its noticeably losing quality or indeed when i post the resized image url into a forum thread again its lacking quality. I even just tried took a screenshot and of course the same thing is happening if i upload to flickr again. I must have some setting on that is reducing the quality. Is it possibly my macbook pro screen?!

I really don't know :( i can't quite explain it and struggling to show what i mean.

And just to confirm that image above was exported at 100% quality not 90%.
 
13362615404_1d229f83c2_c.jpg


If anyone has a moment look at the resized 800px image above compared to the image in the direct link to flickR -

https://www.flickr.com/photos/75574194@N03/13362615404/in/photostream/

Unless its just me they look very different. If you look at the numberplate border line for example its all jagged not straight :confused:.
 
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If anyone has a moment look at the resized 800px image above compared to the image in the direct link to flickR -

https://www.flickr.com/photos/75574194@N03/13362615404/in/photostream/

Unless its just me they look very different. If you look at the numberplate border line for example its all jagged not straight :confused:.
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Of course it looks different, you've thrown away all the HF detail in the image. There is no way to mathematically scale from ~ 4000px to 800px without throwing away 80% of the data.
 
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