Lightroom5 file sizes..

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

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Can someone help. I might be just getting my knickers in a big twist.

When exporting my final work to .JPG I untick all the export boxes including the resize assuming this will export to the largest size..

However, when I checked the image size in elements, some, not all the images comes back with 6 x 4 inches with a 300dpi. which means i loose DPI when i increase the file file size. I don't want Lightroom to decide this for me.

The reason I ask is that i have a number of images that need printing 6" x 9" with a DPI of 300.

In elements, before i picked up Lightroom on trial, I just worked with the saved the maximum size but lightroom seems to be doing it's own thing.

How can i make light room produced larger JPGs to let me decided later?

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks
 
300dpi x 9inches = 2700 pixels, so export the photos with the long side at 2700 pixels.

If you uptick that option, it output at the photo's native res.
 
Thanks Raymond..

That's what i thought.. as the image resize box is unticked but when checking the image size in Elements, it's come back with a 6" x 4" exported file.. if i increase the size to 6 x 9 it it od course looses looses dpi?? I'm now starting to wonder if this is something to do with the trial version.
 
I do, and it's pretty simple.

Under Image Sizing, i tick the long edge and work pick a pixel count and leave it at that. The 240 dpi is meaningless really as it is not 240 dpi with a 900 pixel count width. That field only comes into play if you change the field on the other box to inches (from pixels).

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