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Lightroom mobile automatically reduce size of photo. Why?

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
October 7, 2014
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The original photo I've taken with iphone is 2448*3264, 1.64mb. When I import the photo in Lightroom mobile it automatically reduce the size to 1536*2048, 446kb. Why? How do I turn this off?

Correct answer Ignacio B.

Hi,

As of version 2.2 Lr mobile on iOS now uses full resolution output:
Lightroom mobile for iOS 2.2 Now Available with Full-Resolution Output « Julieanne Kost's Blog

thanks,

Ignacio

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NewTrix

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I realize this is an old thread, but it's now 2021 and I have identified the same issue and I don't see that it has been resolved. I have an iPhone 12 Pro and just downloaded the FREE version of LR Mobile and discovered it DOES, in fact, REDUCE the size of the images, making this app useless for me. I do not have LR on my PC so they are not syncd. Reduced size images, plus the limited editing offered (no selections, no spot healing, no geometry) just demonstrates that this app is just a teaser to get you to upgrade to a subscription. I can do more in Photoshop Elements than with this app. Very disappointing.

greule

Community Manager

@NewTrix could you give us some more info about where you notice the reduced size? Are you revering to the Share-workflow?

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NewTrix

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Hi! I'm sharing from LR (emailing) to myself so I can download to my PC, then I bring it into Photoshop Elements 19 (2021) to do selections, spot healing and correct distortion, etc. I need high resolution images for my stock photo business. I'm new to LR so before I consider LR for my PC I wanted to test with the app. I don't want a subscription.

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AndresMoves

Participant

It's 2020 now and still having the same problem, anybody knows of any solution?

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jagentis

Participant

What's the point of editing with the Photoshop or Lightroom iPad apps if you lose file size/resolution.

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Ignacio B.

Community Manager

Hi,

can you please elaborate some more on your question?

Since you are touching a very old thread that has been marked as correct a long time ago, it would help a lot to know if this is generally about sharing or about a PS mobile and Lr Mobile workflow.
If you are addressing a PS/Lr mobile workflow, it makes sense to handle that in a different thread.

Thanks,
Ignacio

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Jacob18

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what about Android?

ManiacJoe

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JJ2000

2019-11-17

Everything was going well for me until I exported an image. I chose "maximum available" for image size and I ended up with a 600kb file! What am I going to do with that? I can't take that to the print shop and do an enlargement! If I can't use the images professionally that I edit on my iPad, what is the value of this LR for iPad?

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(Bumping this to the end of the thread since it got lost in the middle.

Replies via the first post work best for responce ordering.)

Michael J. Hoffman

Community Expert

Do you sync your catalog with LR Classic? If you do, then LR Mobile has access only to smart previews, with maximum pixel dimensions of 2560 on the large edge.

If you don't use LR Classic, then your originals are preserved in the cloud.

Either way, when you export,you need to choose maximum available. This will get you full size images, or 2560 pixel images, depending on your use of LR Classic. Your mobile device must be able to connect to the cloud to download the full size image. If you're not on wifi, you may need to enable cellular data for this to work.

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denises38197093

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It is now 2019, I just bought a iPad. The resolutuion on photoshop express is still useless. I tried sending editing images to be developed. The resolution is so bad, the professional developers refused to even to. The best they could do was wallet size.

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TheFirst109

Participant

I need some help with this as well. I imported my photos on to the iPad from the SD card using the apple adapter. When I edit the photos in LR mobile they look amazing and I am able to do all of the editing etc. but when I export back to the Camera roll so I can upload them to Facebook, the photos are getting reduced in resolution even when I choose use Maximum available. Then when I view the photos on the Camera roll that I exported, they look like they were taken with a really bad smartphone. What is going on??

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AlexEuropa

Participant

I have a very similar problem. I take full size RAW images on my 5D Mark IV, import them into LR Desktop, put them into a LR Mobile synced Collection, edit the files in LRM and export "Maximum Available" size, and end up with files that are 700-1000KB. So a file that starts off life as a 30MB file is reduced to a file that is 1MB or smaller at the max available export size from LRM. I use this workflow often for journalistic work assignments and it's cumbersome to have to bring both my iPad and laptop to work to send a final product to the editors. And if I'm not at the office, I don't have a way at all to send full res files from the field without purchasing a separate wireless hotspot to bring with me on location.

martine10095137

Participant

To all of you who raise this, and of course Adobe, sharing and exporting edits of my images from LRCC is a real pain. LRCC exports or shares what appear to be thumbnails. I want to share my best photos with friends and deposit some of them in other packages (eg Photos for Mac). To do that I either have to work through the slow syncing with LR classic or edit in photoshop and then transfer. And this needs to be done via an ftp site since file sizes are large.

If my images are stored in your cloud, with the edit steps attached as metadata, why can't the link I send to others not simply download all the relevant data? Thumbnails are not enough and my workflow has been slowed considerably

selondon

Community Expert

Unfortunately not.

Lightroom Desktop will only upload Smart Previews to 'the cloud' (Lr Mobile and Web).

Photos uploaded through LrM/LrW and taken with the LrM Camera will upload at Full Res to 'the cloud' and back down to Lr Desktop at Full Res.

krislinus

Participating Frequently

I have to revoke this old thread since I simply can't get my iPad Pro to export full resolution images!

When choosing Export -> "Maximum Available" it creates an image at max 2560px on the longest side.

Original files are 5670 x 3840, so I don't get it... not even if I choose "Edit in"... Photoshop Fix i.e. Still it maxes out at 2560. It makes Lightroom Mobile almost unusable!!!!

What am I missing?!

I'm running an iPad Pro 9,7", iOS10.3.2 and Lightroom Mobile 2.7.4...

selondon

Community Expert

Where did the files you are trying to export originate?

Are the Smart Previews uploaded from Lightroom Desktop?

krislinus

Participating Frequently

They were imported into Lightroom Desktop as DNG's. They might be Smart Previews, I'm not sure.

Can I get the full res synced to Lightroom mobile by turning off Smart Previews, or what? :-)

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rogercuthbert

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I think the file size in pixels is the same now but the size in megabytes is smaller which would indicate a change in the quality or jpg compression setting. Any thoughts.?

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