Lightroom Question

[Master Mason]

For those of you using light room, what compression do you use for your jpegs when you export?

 

[dfontaine]

I have been using 80% which is the recommendation in Scott Kelby’s book. I haven’t really experimented with it much but that seems to be a reasonable setting.

 

[CM-James]

When i export images as JPEGs I tend to leave them at 100% because chances are if you are using lightroom then you care alot about the quality of you images and want them to look good. I will lower it however if I am goinf to be e-mailing them because of the smaller file size but other than that its best to go 100%.

 

[Code]

I use 16 bit TIFF through the editing process and save a 95% JPG as the last step for printing. For web export, I use 80%. 80% for a print copy seems a bit low.

 

[Gdad]

I am finishing in jpg at full size and 100% now- have played with other settings in the past but regretted it and am now reworking many of those images. I figure if I go to all the trouble of shooting RAW and using Lightroom I should set it to yeild the best possible images.

 

[Groucho]

I just switched from 100% to 90%. I'll probably stick with 100% for my K100D photos... but with the K20D, it's unlikely that I'll have a display device any time soon that'll be able to show the full 14.6mp image at once, and viewing at 100% with 90% and 100% side by side, I sure can't tell the difference. But I can with file size - my test photo was 7.65 megs at 100% and 4.06 megs at 90%. That will save me a lot of room in converted jpgs!

If I am going to do a print, I'll probably save to PNG (or compressed TIFF if I absolutely have to - it makes me insane that in the year 2008, the primitive TIFF is still in use at all), so that'll take care of "top quality" images.

80% does sound low. I can definitely see the difference between 80% and 90% when saving jpgs with other programs, I doubt Lightroom is doing any magic that is allowing it to compress further with no visible artifacts. For what it's worth, I generally save my resizes (both on my PC and the ones automatically done on my web gallery) at 85% quality.

 

[mabas9395]

When I upload to Smugmug, I use 100%. Why not, may as well get my dollar's worth for the storage space I'm renting.