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deabraq0
Inspiring
March 17, 2020
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Imported imaged in lightroom are smaller than original

  • March 17, 2020
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Hey everyone, I am new to Lightroom & Photoshop. I was getting through editing my first photoshoot on here, and I realized in Photoshop that the pictures were much less detailed. I went back to the photos originally imported in Lightroom, and the files were much smaller. For example, a 6000x4000 jpeg was imported as a 1086x724 jpeg. 

 

I am shooting with a Sony a6000 in Raw + JPEG. I use Image Edge Mobile to get them from my camera to my phone, and I airdrop the photos to my mac. In my computer, they are 6000x4000 jpeg files. Once I import them to Lightroom, they decrease significantly. 

 

Has anyone experienced this or suggest a way that I can fix this?

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Correct answer deabraq0

After some messing around with different methods of importing, I believe I figured out the issue. If i save the airdropped images to files instead of Photos and import them from there, they maintain their size. If I save them to Photos and then import them, they diminish is size significantly.

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Emily Makes25735437d96d
Participant
August 20, 2022

I am having the same issue! However, I am importing my photos directly from my camera to my laptop so a phone is not an issue at all. I am really confused at where the problem is because half of the photos I imported are their original file size and then some from the same batch of photos are appearring significantly smaller. I am at a total loss of what is going on.

GoldingD
GoldingD
Legend
August 20, 2022

Lets see

 

  • Two year old posting, that got closed (answer marked as correct)
  • Very likely a different LrC version
  • A camera instead of a phone.

 

Please post a fresh new discussion, when you do please include at least the following

 

  • LrC version, v11.5?
  • Operating System and version, Windows 10, MAC?
  • Camera make/model
  • Are images RAW or JPEG or both
  • Have you inspected in camera to make sure what you thought was RAW, is in fact RAW
  • Have you inspected in camera that some of the images are some odd small JPEG due to a setting

 

also, include the results from the following (this will include some of the points above):

 

 

 

Please post your System Information as Lightroom Classic (LrC) reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Paste that information into a reply. Please present all information from first line down to and including Plug-in Info. Info after Plug-in info can be cut as that is just so much dead space to us non-Techs.

 

 

 

All in a new, not two year old posting.

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deabraq0AuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
March 22, 2020

After some messing around with different methods of importing, I believe I figured out the issue. If i save the airdropped images to files instead of Photos and import them from there, they maintain their size. If I save them to Photos and then import them, they diminish is size significantly.

    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    March 22, 2020

    Right it is because you are copying those images to your phone first, into some app, that is changing them.

    It is that app that is editing them to a smaller size.

    Just Shoot Me
    Just Shoot Me
    Legend
    March 22, 2020

    Just to clarify, the pictures go from my camera to my phone, then to either Photos or files on my mac, and then into Lr. Previously, I was saving the pictures from my phone into Photos on my mac. When I was in Photos, the pictures were 6000x4000. To import them into Lr, I would drag and drop them into Lr, and then the demensions would be diminished. In Lr was the only place the pictures were diminished. They were perfectly fine in Photos after the process on my phone.

     

    This time, however, I saved the pictures from my phone to files on my mac. I then drag and droppes the file into Lr and the demensions remained 6000x4000.

     

    From this, I firmy believe that what occurs on my phone is not the issue. I believe it is the method of importing from my computer (either Photos or files) that is the issue. 


    OK.

    I suggest you STOP using 2 Different photo cataloging and editing apps, LR Classic and Apple Photos, and Pick One then Stick with it.

     

    It will greatly reduce the confusion you have recently been going through.

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    deabraq0Author
    Inspiring
    March 22, 2020

    I am not doing any edit on my phone. The images in my computer are 6000x4000. That is after I sent them from my phone to my computer. It is not until I import them to lightroom that they are sized down.

    GoldingD
    GoldingD
    Legend
    March 18, 2020

    Why the phone in the middle if the import wirkflow?

     

    Color grading?

     

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    deabraq0Author
    Inspiring
    March 18, 2020

    Im new to editing photos, so I normally just transfer to my phone because i would normally have no reason to import to my computer. Also, its pretty quick and easy through Image Edge Mobile.

      GoldingD
      GoldingD
      Legend
      March 17, 2020

      In Lightroom, click on Help, click on System Info, What version is stated?

       

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      deabraq0Author
      Inspiring
      March 18, 2020

      It is Lightroom Classic version 9.2.

      GoldingD
      GoldingD
      Legend
      March 17, 2020

      Are you saying you send the photos in your camera to your phone, then you send the photos in your phone to lightroom?

       

      Please tell me I am wrong.

       

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      deabraq0Author
      Inspiring
      March 18, 2020

      This is the order of transfer:

       

      Camera > phone (via Image Edge Mobile) > Mac (via airdrop) > Lightroom.

      Theresa J
      Community Expert
      Theresa JCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 18, 2020

      This is why your images are smaller. The image edit you are doing on your phone is sizing them down. 

        dj_paige
        dj_paige
        Legend
        March 17, 2020

        Unless you are doing cropping, this shouldn't happen. The act of passing photo from one software to another will not change the image size. So you need to confirm, at every step, what the image size is. These are the steps where you need to identify the image size: in camera, after using Image Edit Mobile, after air drop, upon import to Lightroom, upon transfer to Photoshop.

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        deabraq0Author
        Inspiring
        March 18, 2020

        In camera, the only demensions I know are 24M. I am not sure what it is when they go to my phone, but I am assuming the same size when they go to my computer, 6000x4000. The quality of the images seems consistent all the way up until I import them to Lightroom. The image sizes are the same in Lightroom and Photoshop. 

        dj_paige
        dj_paige
        Legend
        March 22, 2020

        "In camera, the only demensions I know are 24M"

         

        Every camera has a setting that determines the size in pixels of your image. You need to check.

         

        "I am not sure what it is when they go to my phone"

         

        This is the whole point, you need to find out the dimensions at each step.

        Just Shoot Me
        Just Shoot Me
        Legend
        March 17, 2020

        Check your camera settings. It is more than likely set to record a Smaller JPG image than the sensor size.

        Make sure it is set to highest quality for JPG images.

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        deabraq0Author
        Inspiring
        March 18, 2020

        It has always been at L: 24M, which is the largest.

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