Can’t email full-sized photos: After modest editing and no cropping in Lightroom, I can’t email a full-sized JPEG. It arrives greatly reduced. Example: 36MP original may be 1.5MP when...

rngdmn

After modest editing and no cropping in Lightroom, I can’t email a full-sized JPEG. It arrives greatly reduced. Example: 36MP original may be 1.5MP when converted to JPEG but email recipient gets a 175 KB image. I have tried downloading and saving the full-sized image to files, and then sending that version. (Trying to take Lightroom out of the equation). Still the same result.

R.G. Loc: Scotland

You don't say who the recipient is but it's possible that the recipient site has a resolution limit that it reduces incoming files to. if you can find out what that limit is you can post the images at that resolution and you won't have to reduce the quality when doing the jpg conversion.

MJPerini

36MP is too big for most email apps, and 1.5 mp does not sound like a full size JPEG from a 36MP file
Try exporting a full size JPEG from your editor to your desktop. Check the size. it should be somewhere in the 8-12 MP range (just a guess) . Try send in it as an attachment to an email
Also on a Mac, you normally have a choice in the email program as to weather photos are "Actual size" or smaller more compressed sizes.
I suspect all email programs have something like that but cannot help with windows

flashdaddy Loc: Berlin PA

Try transferring the photo through WeTransfer.com. It will send larger files over the 25mp limit.

JBRIII

Another option is Dropbox.

Some emails have larger size limits for upgraded versions, but 36mb is larger than any email I've ever had would accept.

ackvil Loc: Delray Beach, FL

One of the other issues is that Internet Providers limit the size of photos you can send to 20MB. Gmail limits the size to 25MB. As said above you can use cloud-based storage such as Dropbox, One Drive, Google Drive, etc.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

ackvil wrote:

One of the other issues is that Internet Providers limit the size of photos you can send to 20MB. Gmail limits the size to 25MB. As said above you can use cloud-based storage such as Dropbox, One Drive, Google Drive, etc.

Yup. Mine is a 25MB total size limit.

But I've never had a mailed image reduced in size without asking if it's okay, which Verizon does.
Curious, who's your email provider?
Sure you're not saving a smaller file size?
Remember, MP <> MB. Apples and Turnips.

rwm283main Loc: Terryville, CT

Try sending the file to yourself and see what it comes back to you as, file size wise. This will rule out your side if it comes back without a change in file size.
Good luck.

Orphoto Loc: Oregon

The difference might be full image vs. thumbnail.

ackvil Loc: Delray Beach, FL

Comcast limits the total size of the message body and any attachment to 25MB. If I try to send something larger I get buffering and it doesn't get sent.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

ackvil wrote:

Comcast limits the total size of the message body and any attachment to 25MB. If I try to send something larger I get buffering and it doesn't get sent.

That's because you're over the limit......

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Consider resizing the image during the LR export, as discussed in this post:

Recommended resizing parameters for digital images

therwol Loc: USA

rngdmn wrote:

After modest editing and no cropping in Lightroom, I can’t email a full-sized JPEG. It arrives greatly reduced. Example: 36MP original may be 1.5MP when converted to JPEG but email recipient gets a 175 KB image. I have tried downloading and saving the full-sized image to files, and then sending that version. (Trying to take Lightroom out of the equation). Still the same result.

I sent a 24.3 megabyte JPEG taken with a 36 MP camera (Nikon D810) from one email account to another. (GMAIL to AOL). The picture arrived unchanged. Note however that about half of the JPEGS I've taken with that camera exceed the usual 25 MP limit of email. When this happens, rather than cropping or resizing, I just recompress at a higher level in a photo editor if I want all of the MP to go with the picture. This extra step is one of the disadvantages of using high MP cameras. Not only that, huge files may be an inconvenience to the recipient. I sent a bunch of similar pictures to my son by using my One Drive, and when he tried to download them all at once, his iPhone choked on them. I resized them for him.

Bubbee Loc: Aventura, Florida

When you export or file as a jpg, use highest resolution. Email as a link from Google Drive or Photos, We Transfer, or Dropbox .

therwol Loc: USA

Bubbee wrote:

When you export or file as a jpg, use highest resolution. Email as a link from Google Drive or Photos, We Transfer, or Dropbox .

I agree with using the full resolution and highest quality when exporting JPEGS for my own use. I agree with uploading to a shared folder if you want to transfer them to someone else in their original form. I question whether this is a good idea for some recipients who may not want, or may not be able to deal with large files, and it certainly will make emailing nearly all photos taken with high resolution cameras impossible (Nikon D8xx, Z7,8 and 9 and comparable cameras by several other brands).

Having said that, I'm curious to know what the problem the OP is having with emailing photos. On a phone, okay. There are settings to reduce the size of emailed photos. The OP is trying to email 36 MP images, not likely taken on a phone, and they arrive drastically reduced in size.