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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
