TexasPilot
Member
- Joined
- Sep 26, 2015
- Messages
- 70
- Location
- San Antonio, Texas
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
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Good Morning;
Thanks to this forum I have learned a so much about getting great prints. Thru this forum I learned about ColorMunki Display and calibration, using Costco effectively and accessing Dry Creek Photo for the printer profiles, and more. Now, thanks to so many of you, when I control the process, I get great prints.
Where I need some advice as to export settings is when I need to give images to friends, relatives and associates who want to "get some prints made" from images I send them. They want to go to Walgreens, Sams, Walmart, and other retail photo outlets. And I don't want to be in the print business. I'll just give them a cheap thumb drive of disk or tell them how to download them.
What would be the best "export" settings for the images I send them so they can get this done on their own from the options available on the export box, in particular:
Quality: (0 - 100)
Color Space: sRGB, Adobe RGB
Resize to? (I'll be giving them JPEGs)
Resolution?
Sharpen for? I want to consistently use just one (glossy, matte). Amount? High, Standard, Low?
Anything else?
In addition, knowing that they will probably use ones of these retail outlets, are there any develop module tips I need to know - especially in the Basic panel?
Once I get your feedback on this I'll just make a "Friends and Family" export preset. I just want them to get a decent print.
Any and all advice on this will be appreciated. If I'm making this too complicated, tell me that, too!
Ed
San Antonio, TX
Thanks to this forum I have learned a so much about getting great prints. Thru this forum I learned about ColorMunki Display and calibration, using Costco effectively and accessing Dry Creek Photo for the printer profiles, and more. Now, thanks to so many of you, when I control the process, I get great prints.
Where I need some advice as to export settings is when I need to give images to friends, relatives and associates who want to "get some prints made" from images I send them. They want to go to Walgreens, Sams, Walmart, and other retail photo outlets. And I don't want to be in the print business. I'll just give them a cheap thumb drive of disk or tell them how to download them.
What would be the best "export" settings for the images I send them so they can get this done on their own from the options available on the export box, in particular:
Quality: (0 - 100)
Color Space: sRGB, Adobe RGB
Resize to? (I'll be giving them JPEGs)
Resolution?
Sharpen for? I want to consistently use just one (glossy, matte). Amount? High, Standard, Low?
Anything else?
In addition, knowing that they will probably use ones of these retail outlets, are there any develop module tips I need to know - especially in the Basic panel?
Once I get your feedback on this I'll just make a "Friends and Family" export preset. I just want them to get a decent print.
Any and all advice on this will be appreciated. If I'm making this too complicated, tell me that, too!
Ed
San Antonio, TX