Raw to JPEG 220k image size 1000x750px issue

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November 1, 2022
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Hi am I expecting too much to get a good quality image measuring 1000x750px out of lightroom at 220k? I have good sharpe images (RAW) in light room but with these setting often I loose so much detail. Have looked up lots of things but never managed to improve it. I could be missing something, am I expecting too much at 220k ? These are my settings:

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GoldingD

Legend

For publication to the web, for images being viewed on someone's internet browser, export based on image sizing, not file size, generaly based on long edge, your goal should be for a size that fits nicely on the users screen.

Note that where you publish can have ramifications as to what that size should be. Facebook? Flickr, Google, etc.

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Isn't the OP already doing that with his Longest Edge = 1000 pixels in your opinion? Note that file size does play an important role on the web too, because larger files take more time to load, especially on slow connections. And slow loading sites lose viewers quickly.

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JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Yes I am making them 1000px. Taking out meta info didn't make any noticeable difference unfortunately

So maybe you are indeed expecting too much. It's obvious that reducing the size of an image will make you lose some detail compaired to the full size original. That is inevitable because you now have only 1000 pixels to fit all the detail that the longest side of the original image has in perhaps 4 to 8 times that many pixels. Do realise that 1000 x 750 pixels is less than 1 megapixel!

-- Johan W. Elzenga

F. McLion

Community Expert

Why are you limiting the file size? IMHO, this is never a good idea except for very rare cases.

Set the resolution limit as needed and set the quality slider.

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kimy79691527Author

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I am limiting the file size because it is for a website and I have thousands of images on there and it takes up too much space they shouldn't really be as high as this but I'm pushing it 😄

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Do you really need to include all metadata for a photo on a website? Stripping most of the metadata could help a lot to gain quality with these settings.

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