Lightroom - Export settings

MrsRobs

Senior Member
Ive been messing around with my export settings on Lightroom, have now reset them to jpeg - 2048pix , does that sound about right to other users?
 
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BackdoorArts

Senior Member
Output depends a lot on where you're putting the photos and the recommendations and restrictions for those sites. For example Facebook (last I checked) recommended 1920px on the long end. Here, if you're above 1048px (?) they will resize and strip the EXIF data (but that may have changed). I am a member of a photo challenge site that requires nothing larger than 1200px on the long side. The local club contests cannot be bigger than 1050px.

I don't export from Lightroom, but when I did I had a number of export presets that I would tune for a specific purpose. The risk of using a single preset is that sites will generally resize on import and you never know what that's going to look like when they're done with the image you worked so hard on.
 

nikonpup

Senior Member
2048 is what I use for Facebook - Flickr - here. Saves me from changing size for the different sites. What each site does with the image I do not care, they look OK to me.
 
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