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piets73432854
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April 2, 2020
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P: Field "File Size in MB" should be available as a filter in Organizer

  • April 2, 2020
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The field "File Size in MB" is listed in the Metadata of each file/photo.

It would be a functional help if this field should also be available in the Filters visible in Organizer.

This funtion would enable user to filter and sort all files/photos which have a material size.

After visualization user can conclude to remove (after backup to external HD) these large files in order to save some space on internal HD.  Actually this can only be done in Explorer and search afterwards in LR file by file.  It would be a great time saving procedure.

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    Andy Richman
    Participant
    April 2, 2020

    Hi

     

    I have just imported 11,000 scans (which are all either .jpg, .png or .pdf files) of old photographic images into Lightroom Classic on my Mac.

     

    I want to be able to filter / sort / create a collection based on file sizes (e.g. restrict it just to high res images). For example select only those which are >1MB in size. Or in some way to only select those which are in effect of a decent resoultion. It seems that there is no filter by size option in Lightroom but is there another way to do this or via another Adobe product. I guess I could select the files by size from outside Lightroom and then reimport but seems a little crazy to do that.

     

    Any ideas?

     

    Best

     

    Andy

     

     

      TheDigitalDog
      TheDigitalDog
      Inspiring
      April 2, 2020

      You can make Smart Collections but they are based on megapixels so it's not going to be as 'accurate' as having the ability to do so per size in MB etc. Better than nothing. 

      The issue with size in MB etc is that it doesn't tell you that much about the image. For example, if you have 1000x1000 pixels, it's twice the size on your drive in 16-bit vs. 8-bit per color. Hence LR works with pixels which do tell you more about the real size of images. 

      Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
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      Andy Richman
      Participant
      April 3, 2020

      This is helpful. I basically want to just filter down to decent resolution images which for example could be used as a hero image on a website not for printing for example of something 40"x30". Any suggestions?

       

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      Andy

       

       

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