LR4 exporting problems

[DayDreamer]

Suddenly my exports are a few hundred kbs down from the 'out of the camera' size JPegs at 4-6mb.

After digging, in the LR4 preferences, I see - somehow - was it me - without realising it there was a box ticked to 'resize to fit' so I unticked it but now my 4-6mb sizes have bloated to around 12 mb.

Help please as I am not sure where I am going wrong now. I just want jpegs but no bigger file size than the 'out of the camera' ones

 

[garryknight]

In the Export dialog under File Settings, try setting the Quality to something like 80%.

 

[Gr8Shot]

set heigh and width if they are just for the net as well

 

[DayDreamer]

In the Export dialog under File Settings, try setting the Quality to something like 80%.

Thanks Garry as this seems to be exactly the problem

It was set at 100% and I'm not aware of ever changing this but .........

Do you know what t he default setting usually is?

 

[DayDreamer]

set heigh and width if they are just for the net as well

Thanks Steve - I think I am starting to get used to this side of LR4. All my learning time, so far, has been on the more exciting side of fiddling with the photos

 

[garryknight]

Do you know what t he default setting usually is?

I've been using LR since version 1.2 and it has carried forward my settings since then. If there ever was a default, I've long forgotten what it is. But 70-85% is a good trade-off between file size and image quality. Unless you're uploading to Flickr, in which case you want to try and get 300%

 

[DayDreamer]

I've been using LR since version 1.2 and it has carried forward my settings since then. If there ever was a default, I've long forgotten what it is. But 70-85% is a good trade-off between file size and image quality. Unless you're uploading to Flickr, in which case you want to try and get 300%

Thanks again & I will use settings you suggest as they seem to get a good output