Lightroom 2 help with jpg. (1 Viewer)

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Pigeon_Pete

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• May 29, 2010

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Can anyone offer any help on how to retain a quality image when compressing from RAW to jpg . Some of my photos , on here (gallery) for example look washed out and poor colour quality (325k max size for uploading)

I also uploaded a 9mb jpg to Snapfish for processing as a photo and the colour looked washed out in the preview and when I received the photo.

thanks

 

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paul goode

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• May 30, 2010

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What colour space are you using?

 

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Pigeon_Pete

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• May 30, 2010

• #3

Hi Paul,

I am just a beginner, I am using RGB if thats what you mean?

thanks

 

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paul goode

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• May 30, 2010

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we need to find out if its aRGB or sRGB. Images for the web and most printers need to be sRGB otherwise they look washed out.

When you export the file make sure sRGB is set.

This may not be the problem but its the first thing to check

 

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Pigeon_Pete

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• May 30, 2010

• #5

Sorry my mistake , its sRGB I have been using

 

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paul goode

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• May 30, 2010

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Pigeon_Pete said:

Sorry my mistake , its sRGB I have been using

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Well sRGB would be the correct setting but I've just checked the blackbird and greenfinch in your gallery and they are coming up as pro photo RGB which I believe is a wider gamut colour space than aRGB

 

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Pigeon_Pete

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• May 30, 2010

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Thanks Paul, its all rather new to me. I take it sRGB is the one I should use for web jpegs? Should I use standard or high sharpening for screen images?
thanks

 

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paul goode

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• May 30, 2010

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Pigeon_Pete said:

Thanks Paul, its all rather new to me. I take it sRGB is the one I should use for web jpegs? Should I use standard or high sharpening for screen images?
thanks

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sRGB for web images and printing (although check with the lab)
As far as sharpening goes use what you think lokks right. I'd go for standard as much as possible but many people do sharpen images more than me. Its personal taste that one.

I'd also check what size you are exporting images at. I'm not sure how the birdforum gallery works but your images have 2 file sizes which, I think, means the gallery software is resizing the images. If thats the case then the images will look compressed.

 

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Pigeon_Pete

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• May 30, 2010

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Thanks Paul, the max on here is 325k, but as you say the images x2 show rather smaller sizes than 325k

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your photos look fantastic, wish I could be as good!

 

Last edited: May 30, 2010