Lightroom 4 export advice (Page 2): Very very true. I had a few nasty surprises before I calibrated mine...but then again..purple cows look cool... :)...

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

Festina Lente wrote:

One thing to add here to meet your goal of allowing your friends to print them accurately -- Have you calibrated your monitor? (That's important if you want them printed as you see them).

Scott Kelby's book on LR4 is great and you should have a copy ($27 on Amazon with free shipping).

Very very true.

I had a few nasty surprises before I calibrated mine...but then again..purple cows look cool... :)

gks18

Hi -
When you export, you can set the limit file size to - check 100 K and the height and width -check..... you can give it a value of say 300 dpi ,so you get a higher resolution print. For some cases (as competitions), you will need to specify the height and width, say to 1024 x 768. But even without a specific reason for these numbers to be there, you can leave them there and get a good print. At least, I do when I go to London Drugs.
Hope this helps, Gail

DavidM Loc: New Orleans, LA

Festina Lente wrote:

One thing to add here to meet your goal of allowing your friends to print them accurately -- Have you calibrated your monitor? (That's important if you want them printed as you see them).

Scott Kelby's book on LR4 is great and you should have a copy ($27 on Amazon with free shipping).

Festina, no I haven't calibrated my monitor, but my photos look the same on my electronic picture frame. I'll check that when I get home and I plan on purchasing that book.

Thanks

Zenith701 Loc: Southern California

Check out Julieanne Kost tutorial for Lightroom (videos). She goes into a lot of detail and walks you through the processes.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

DavidM wrote:

Festina, no I haven't calibrated my monitor, but my photos look the same on my electronic picture frame. I'll check that when I get home and I plan on purchasing that book.

Thanks

Printing to paper is a lot different than looking at something that's backlit.

I was shocked when I saw what a print looked like (darkness wise) the first time I got a print done. My brightness and colors were WAY off but I never knew it.

DavidM Loc: New Orleans, LA

rpavich wrote:

DavidM wrote:

Festina, no I haven't calibrated my monitor, but my photos look the same on my electronic picture frame. I'll check that when I get home and I plan on purchasing that book.

Thanks

Printing to paper is a lot different than looking at something that's backlit.

I was shocked when I saw what a print looked like (darkness wise) the first time I got a print done. My brightness and colors were WAY off but I never knew it.

Thanks.. this is good to know and I will try it out.

tulsimm

You can search to "AdobeTV". A series of titorials on LR done by Adobe. AtoZ
Doing mass editing is quick if photos are the same in camera settings and lighting too, if you have the same goal for all. If the story of the session is same for each photo then it is easy and quick editing.
I am doing a project on Human Character, shown by lines in aged faces. Getting the lines in the face to be easily seen and noticed without destroying the beauty of the face is the goal but it isn't easy. Extremely hard compared to taking the lines out to help woman look younger. LOL
Stay with it. it will make you a better story teller.

DavidM Loc: New Orleans, LA

gks18 wrote:

Hi -
When you export, you can set the limit file size to - check 100 K and the height and width -check..... you can give it a value of say 300 dpi ,so you get a higher resolution print. For some cases (as competitions), you will need to specify the height and width, say to 1024 x 768. But even without a specific reason for these numbers to be there, you can leave them there and get a good print. At least, I do when I go to London Drugs.
Hope this helps, Gail

Is there a guide on what "dpi" setting should be used for what size file? I would think you want to use maximum dpi for any picture.

DavidM Loc: New Orleans, LA

Ok I've calibrated my monitor with "quickgamma" which uses windows 7 LUT loader and color management. Of course on a laptop LCD screen there are no adjustments like on an external monitor, but monitor gamma looks good and is in sync with my nvidia graphics card, so I guess I'm good and will find out when I get a photo printed.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

DavidM wrote:

Ok I've calibrated my monitor with "quickgamma" which uses windows 7 LUT loader and color management. Of course on a laptop LCD screen there are no adjustments like on an external monitor, but monitor gamma looks good and is in sync with my nvidia graphics card, so I guess I'm good and will find out when I get a photo printed.

I'm not sure that's gonna do the trick for photography...I don't know.

If you are serious about people printing your work on paper, it's worth the 100.00 to get a dedicated calibration tool.

DavidM Loc: New Orleans, LA

tulsimm wrote:

You can search to "AdobeTV". A series o... (show quote)

Thanks, I have watched quite a few of these tutorials but missed anything on crop overlay and printing for specific sizes. So this is a very good learning experience. Over the past several months I believe I've watched almost everything that Kost has posted. Just hard to put the lecture to practice sometimes when the lectures don't address all the possible parameters.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

DavidM wrote:

quote=gks18 Hi - br When you export, you can set ... (show quote)

I'm not sure what you are asking.

Can you be specific in what size shot you want to print and where?

DavidM Loc: New Orleans, LA

rpavich wrote:

quote=DavidM quote=gks18 Hi - br When you export... (show quote)

In other words when you say "give it a value of say 300 dpi " what is the reason? Without any experience and not much time to research this I would think you want to use certain values for different size photos.

DavidM Loc: New Orleans, LA

rpavich wrote:

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I understand what you're saying but I'm just starting this hobby and would prefer to put that money into better glass for now. I just figured this would be a quick fix for now. I want test print a few photos to see where I stand first. Maybe this is good enough and maybe it's not. I do appreciate and value your input.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

DavidM wrote:

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Ok...I see.

yes...there are certain accepted sizes for printing different sizes on paper.

Here is a link that explains printing resolution and file size.

http://www.imagekind.com/printing.aspx