Newbie - Lightroom 5 - Image Quality on Export

Spiderdudeuk · 1 Oct 2014

Hi, after a bit of help/advice from Lightroom 5 users.

I've just started to "fiddle" with some RAW images in LR. Now I've taken some evening shots at football and I've adjusted the noise out as much as I think I can and the pics are suitable for the club.

But, I then export to a Jpeg and a lot of the noise returns when I open the JPG in Elements 12. I export it at maximum quality as well.

Am I missing something really obvious or just being dumb! Do I need to do something before exporting?

As I say, once I've made the adjustments to the RAW it looks fine exactly what I need...

So any help would be appreciated...

Thanks in advance

Spiderdudeuk · 1 Oct 2014

SORTED... FOUND THE ANSWER ON ANOTHER FORUM... MORE TO DO WITH THE WAY I AM LOOKING AT IT RATHER THAN THE SAVING PROCESS....

haggis · 1 Oct 2014

Out of curiosity what was your discovery?

Spiderdudeuk · 2 Oct 2014

haggis said:
Out of curiosity what was your discovery?

When I was viewing it in LR I was viewing it in one of the modes, can't recall exactly which one. This showed it lot smaller and the clarity as I expected. When I went to 1:1 the image both within Elements and LR was the same. I need to get a good book for LR really and spend some time playing with it. So much stuff on the web is very confusing when trying to figure it out, particularly when it comes to exporting the images from RAW. Lot of stuff suggests resizing on export to get a better clarity, so will try that.

Still convinced I'm not getting the best quality I could, so practice, practice and more practice....

Jayst84 · 2 Oct 2014

Look at it at the size it will be used at. Then adjust so that it looks good at that size.

For example, if they're only going to end up as 800 pixels on a website, or a couple of inches in a brochure or wherever - you likely don't need to do any noise reduction. On the other hand, if you're displaying them at a decent size, you may want to put a bit more care into the noise reduction.

Spiderdudeuk · 2 Oct 2014

Jayst84 said:
Look at it at the size it will be used at. Then adjust so that it looks good at that size.

For example, if they're only going to end up as 800 pixels on a website, or a couple of inches in a brochure or wherever - you likely don't need to do any noise reduction. On the other hand, if you're displaying them at a decent size, you may want to put a bit more care into the noise reduction.

Hi, thanks for the advice... All is welcome... The photos I help out with are used on club website, facebook and in the match programmes. If they are looked at on a "computer" used loosely as not sure how many people actually use FB or Twitter on a computer these days they do look grainy. When viewed on tablets or phones they are crystal clear as you point out.

My main concern when editing is that when printed in programme they look right. The maximum image size there is about 12cm x 8cm on the cover, all inside are a lot smaller.

You maybe able to answer this then; is it better when exporting to a jpeg to get LR to resize on export to the maximum size it will be used, or should I reduce it using alternative software?

haggis · 2 Oct 2014

I always set the export on wedding photos to 3000 pixels on the longest side at 300 ppi for printing. Gives a 10" longest side. For web images I set at 100 pixels at 72 ppi. Seems to deliver what I need.

Jayst84 · 2 Oct 2014

Spiderdudeuk said:
You maybe able to answer this then; is it better when exporting to a jpeg to get LR to resize on export to the maximum size it will be used, or should I reduce it using alternative software?

I use Lightroom, and set it to the final size it will be used, never had any issues. Sending to clients, unless they have a very specific use, I just send a generic high res and low res option. They can then either use as it is, or tweak to suit without too many issues.

haggis said:
For web images I set at 100 pixels at 72 ppi. Seems to deliver what I need.

Do you mean 1000 pixels? (Also of course, for the OP - DPI has no impact on images on the web).

haggis · 3 Oct 2014

Jayst84 said:
I use Lightroom, and set it to the final size it will be used, never had any issues. Sending to clients, unless they have a very specific use, I just send a generic high res and low res option. They can then either use as it is, or tweak to suit without too many issues.

Do you mean 1000 pixels? (Also of course, for the OP - DPI has no impact on images on the web).

Sorry it should have read 1000 pixels

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