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Does reducing Lightroom export file size reduce image quality?
Sometimes I reduced the file sizes of my jpeg images for faster uploading to the web.
Does this reduce the image quality?
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What's the difference between using RAW or JPG with After Effects?
I am making some timelapse videos. And I have around 1500 photos in RAW format. I did some adjustoments in Lightroom and then imported these RAW files to After Effects. But After Effects processed ...
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SmugMug pixelation in dark parts of jpg from lightroom
I'm new to Lightroom and new to SmugMug, so I'm hoping someone can help me out.
I have this set of photos I took of a sunset, shot in jpg, edited in Lightroom to my liking and then published via the ...
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How does Darktable compare to Adobe Lightroom for editing JPEGs?
I mostly modify JPG images taken from my Nikon camera. How does Darktable compare to Adobe Lightroom for this purpose?
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Lightroom: print or export for online printing of specific aspect ratios
Which is better?
Use the Develop module to crop an image to a specific ratio and then export it to a JPEG
or
use the Print Module and print them to a JPG with a specific page size (aspect ratio)?
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Does JPEG-to-JPEG export Lightroom reapply compression?
I want to crop a JPEG file in Lightroom and export that cropped file to another JPEG so that I can e-mail it. The exported JPEG should have the same quality as the original.
I don't have the RAW file ...
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Converting / re-compressing select photos in Lightroom
As my Lightroom catalog grows ther eare some photographs I would like to preserve, but where I don't need all the editing latitude offered by RAW.
I know I can convert them to DNG, but are there ...
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Why does LR seem to build a preview for JPEG's as well?
I am trying out shooting RAW+JPEG to see if that workflow is what I want. I am surprised to see that Lightroom still shows the "Loading" text when I zoom in on an unedited JPEG file. I expected that ...
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How can I easily replace raw files with jpeg format in Lightroom?
I only shoot in RAW, but for a normal travel trip I don't want to keep all photos in RAW because they occupy a lot of storage space. Is there a plugin in Lightroom to click a photo and convert the RAW ...
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What are the optimal JPEG settings for high-resolution Facebook photos?
With the current facebook photo uploader, what are the optimal settings for uploading high-resolution photos. I process my images in Adobe Lightroom.
I'm aware of a similar question asked in the ...
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How can I export TIFF images to JPEG with no adjustments, using Lightroom?
I use Lightroom (version 3 now, probably 4 soon) to work with my raw images. When exporting to JPEG, Lightroom applies a number of adjustments, even if I leave all the settings at the default.
This ...
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Is there a way to export from lightroom to multiple formats simultaneously?
I frequently need to photograph my wife's textile works and output the results in several formats. She wants high quality, large jpegs; tiffs; and smallish jpegs for her web site, all of which go into ...
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Is Lightroom overkill for a JPG-oriented workflow?
I am a passionate not a professional,
I shoot most of the time in jpg because:
I usually don't have the time to process raw
raw takes a lot more space (and I feel my D700 jpgs are huge already!)
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Why do my sRGB exports from Lightroom look different from RAW files shown in the program even though my monitor can only show sRGB?
I have read tons of docs about color management over the Web, but there is something I can't understand.
I have a screen that can only render the RGB color space.
It is very well calibrated using ...
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Why are my Lightroom 3 developments displaying in some applications but not others?
I'm shooting timelapse photos in JPEG and Ive imported them using Lightroom 3. They were initially upside down so I flipped them around added some exposure and saturation adjustments. I selected all ...
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How to import metadata from extermal .xmp sidecar file when importing .jpg files into Lightroom?
I have thousands of image files that I want to import into Lightroom. Some of the files are .nef, some are .jpg, .tiff, and other formats.
If I have file1.nef and also have file1.xmp in the same ...
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What tool produces better quality jpeg: Lightroom or Imagemagick?
I'm using Lightroom for photo workflow. At the end of it, I would like to have the best JPEG I can get, basically two options to choose from:
- export from Lightroom to JPEG, using the 100% Lightroom ...
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How do I export JPEGs from Lightroom without the grey/black box around each picture?
How do I export JPEGs from Lightroom without the grey/black box around each picture?
This is really frustrating me. I know there has to be a way to do this.
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What were the optimal JPEG settings for Facebook photos in 2010/2011? [closed]
Every time I upload a photo to facebook I'm disappointed; the photos just look really bad. What size do you recommend, dpi, etc? If it helps, I'm using lightroom.
