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p.1 #1 · Anyone have an ideas?

Well, I recently edited a few of my shots with Lightroom (trial version) and saved them to my desktop as JPEGs. I use Facebook as my social networking site, and when I uploaded the shots to my profile, Facebook shrunk the file down (or compacted it all down) into a smaller image. Now, it looks really concentrated (not sure if this conveys what it looks like).

The JPEGs were originally larger sized (around 4 megabytes). Is there anyway I can get the images to look like they do on my computer? Like maybe resize them somehow? Thanks.

Edited on Nov 19, 2007 at 01:52 AM

Nov 17, 2007 at 04:32 AM

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p.1 #2 · Anyone have an ideas?

I'm not sure how it works in Lightroom, but in photoshop you would simply resize the images to about 700 pixels on their longest side. This will be well under 1mb in size (closer to 200 kb) and will look great online.

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Nov 17, 2007 at 06:08 AM

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p.1 #3 · Anyone have an ideas?

Thats what I figured, but Im not sure Lightroom allows resizing. Thanks for the advice Russ. Ill figure out a way to resize my images. Thanks again.

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Nov 17, 2007 at 06:34 AM

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p.1 #4 · Anyone have an ideas?

Lightroom does allow for resizing. Please see below. I am showing your what Russ was talking about. Select this option when exporting, and it will resize it. Generally, I will put the DPI at about 72 and the "Quality" at about 80, then put the longest side at 640 if I am uploading something to Myspace.com or the like.

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p.1 #5 · Anyone have an ideas?

If you are using Lightroom 1.3, the export window has been changed, but still allows you to resize.

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Nov 17, 2007 at 08:35 PM

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p.1 #6 · Anyone have an ideas?

Good point, That is still 1.2.

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Nov 17, 2007 at 10:12 PM

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p.1 #7 · Anyone have an ideas?

Even if you pre-size them to what facebook uses, they will still look pretty awful. They put a lot of compression into it.

Still, people are always impressed with the photos I put on facebook of them, because they look a lot better than the typical point and shoot photos people put on there.

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Nov 18, 2007 at 11:48 PM

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p.1 #8 · Anyone have an ideas?

Hey, thanks a lot for all the advice/help. Yeah, Facebook totally compresses them (down to like 40ish kbs!). Thanks again for all the help.

Edited on Nov 19, 2007 at 01:52 AM

Nov 19, 2007 at 01:37 AM

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p.1 #9 · Anyone have an ideas?

Well, I just tried it, and unfortunately, I must be really dense with this. I checked "constrain maximum size", and experimented with different lengths/heights ....

but it actually crops my picture so that I lose some of the image on the bottom/sides. ? I don't need to crop, just resize the entire image down to a smaller size. Am I doing something wrong here? Thanks a lot.

Nov 19, 2007 at 01:52 AM


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