Hello Godfrey
Thank you very much for your detailed insight into your workflow . Very sofisticated . Far too complicated for me .
The obtained results rectify your effort . I envy you . I envy you very much .
My goal in the moment is , to obtain acceptable file quality for the forum by just using given export possibilities say in LR CC or LRC or PSCC or ON1 PHOTO RAW .
I do not want to store my images on any media outside my own computer . No external source .
Therefore I would like to know what image size can the forum take . Currently it seems to under 1MB , around 850K , which of course does not show satisfaying image quality .
For example say , jpeg with long side xxx pixels . This could be seen in the old forum , but I can not find anything in the migrated version .
An attempt to the administration of this forum about this topic ended up with no answer .
Perhaps one of the users can help .
Thank you for the compliment, Jürgen!
For display purposes on this forum, you don't need to upload the largest, biggest size in pixel dimensions or file size that the forum server can handle to present high quality photographs. In fact, that is a little wasteful of server resources and slows down display for those who have less than fantastic network connection speeds, never mind that too large an image is resized anyway by the forum software to fit both the screen and a maximum dimension set by the forum management.
The pixel size that I upload has migrated upwards over the years as network speeds have risen, as computers have improved, and as average display size has grown. That said, I find very little practical advantage to uploading images larger than 1600 pixels on the long edge to the forum ... this size image displays very nicely at 1:1 on a 27 inch diagonal display and can be viewed at that magnification in its entirety on the same display for 1600 x 1200, and with a small amount of scaling for a 1600 x 1600. Example: Here's a 1600x1200 image captured in full screen display mode on my display.
Set that to 1:1 and it fills the screen nicely and is good to view at normal display distance from the eye.
I set the JPEG compression in LR to about 72-75. The difference between this setting and other settings in the range from 65 to 100% is measurable but not visible. Doing so with this image nets an output JPEG file around 340 Kbytes, which is fast to upload, fast to download, and easy for even a relatively slow connection.
Summing up: Set JPEG output to 1600 pixels on the long edge, set compression to 72, and tell LR to do output sharpening for computer display. That's my standard settings...
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