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1. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
b_gossweiler Jun 27, 2010 3:37 PM (in response to harry teasley)Harry,
This is a know problem with LR3. "Minimize Metadata" on export might help a little.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland
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2. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
harry teasley Jun 27, 2010 4:36 PM (in response to b_gossweiler)OK, thank you. Minimize metadata did indeed knock perhaps 5-10kb off the files. Is it known whether or not a fix is contemplated for LR3, or is this something to be lived with until LR4?
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3. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
b_gossweiler Jun 27, 2010 11:13 PM (in response to harry teasley)Harry,
Without knowing it, I would expect a fix somewhere in LR3, probably not with the highest priority.
Beat
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4. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
mylondondiary Jun 28, 2010 3:24 AM (in response to harry teasley)I've had this problem too, but it isn't the only one when creating small jpeg files from LR.
There is something seriously amiss in the export module. I also create a lot of 600 pixel wide/high files and not only are the file sizes far too high, but the quality is poor. I have two workarounds for this, both of which add a little time to the job, but make a big difference.
First is to export my files as full size jpegs (which I do anyway,) LR does a good job with these. Then get another programme to batch process these to give me the small sRGB files I also need!
Second is to use LR's web module and create a basic html site for a batch of images in a folder in a temp directory at the precise size I want. This has the advantage that I can add a watermark. Then just rename and move the folder containing the images from the web folder that has been created to where I want them, followed by deleting the rest of the web folder.
Working at low quality (38%) from the Export module gave me a file size for one image of 455KB. So then I told it to export at a max of 200KB, and it came out at 565KB. Using the web module with quality set at 70 gave a higher quality result and a file size of 105KB!
The problem seems to be worse on images where I've done quite a bit of work using local adjustments - rather as if they are actually performing these on the small jpeg and re-saving each time. Certainly something going very wrong - just like it was in LR2.x and I think it must be a logical error as presumably the web module uses the same library to create jpegs.
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5. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
jsc909 Jul 3, 2010 11:02 AM (in response to harry teasley)Small jpg's here are also not being constrained by 'limit file size to:' in LR3. Any word from Adobe?
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6. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
Ian Lyons Jul 3, 2010 11:19 AM (in response to jsc909)jsc909 wrote:
Small jpg's here are also not being constrained by 'limit file size to:' in LR3. Any word from Adobe?
No and there won't be, they're closed until 12th July, even then I wouldn't hold my breath for fix any time soon.
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7. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
Karlosak-EyRiSf Jul 30, 2010 4:25 AM (in response to harry teasley)I can confirm the bug too. This is very bothersome and definitely should be fixed in the next point release. If a new feature is provided that allows users to explicitly limit the image size at export, it should never cross the limit, otherwise it's pretty useless. There are many online sites and marketplaces with a fixed limit on the image size. Hopefully a fix is in the works!
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8. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
harry teasley Sep 5, 2010 5:28 PM (in response to harry teasley)Just wanted to repost to this thread that, from my experience with 3.2, this bug is fixed. In several export sessions, no exported photo exceeded the export file size limit I specified. So thanks, Lightroom Team, for fixing this.
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9. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
Lee Jay-ZyZk56 Sep 5, 2010 6:17 PM (in response to harry teasley)I think the exported images using this option now lack a thumbnail and some/most metadata, regardless of the status of the metadata check box.
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10. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
mylondondiary Sep 6, 2010 12:34 PM (in response to harry teasley)I've still had problems with the 3.2 release.
But there are two useful workarounds to get smaller file sizes with small jpegs using LR. One is to export a web site from LR - it seems to do a better job and removing unneeded metadata, and the other is to use the Jeremy Friedl's Metadata Wrangler plugin: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/metadata-wrangler which is donation-ware and gives impressive control over metadata. Only took me 10 minutes to decide it was worth making a contribution.
The third way is to export big files and then reduce them in size in another program. I use ACDSee Pro (I got a free copy some years ago) as a file viewer but it very handily batch processes changing file size and seems to me to do a slightly better job than LR on quality/file size, though not enough for me usually to bother to use another piece of software.
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11. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
Zogmar Sep 15, 2010 1:13 AM (in response to harry teasley)I confirm that while size limit seems to now work, you loose some metadata, like date of shooting.
I had the problem when participating to a forum where date of shooting was mandatory : if I do not use size limit, it is OK but cumbersome to find the right settings (300K limit); if I use size limit it works but the image was refused because the date of shooting was somehow lost in the reduction (while other EXIF data are kept).
I think there is definitely a bug there. LR3 is a wonderful software but this kind of inconvenience can be rather annoying when posting on the web...
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12. Re: File size limit on export doesn't.
clvrmnky Sep 15, 2010 11:14 AM (in response to Zogmar)Try Friedl's Metadata Wranger plugin and see if that helps. It massages the metadata near the end of the processing, so you might end up with a slightly larger than expected image, but it might contain what you want. You can set it to have the minimal amount of metadata which should keep things in check.



