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1. Re: Image quality poor when saving from Lightroom
dj_paige Jan 25, 2017 5:52 AM (in response to melking_1978)I assume the right hand image is in Lightroom, and the left hand image is after you do an Export from Lightroom. Is that correct?
Please tell me what software you are using to view the photo outside of Lightroom.
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2. Re: Image quality poor when saving from Lightroom
ManiacJoe Jan 25, 2017 5:56 AM (in response to melking_1978)Mac or Windows? What version?
Which exact version of Lightroom?
What image viewer are you using? Is it color managed?
Saving the color space as sRGB might be better depending on your usage.
Turning on the output sharpening is usually required for good results.
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3. Re: Image quality poor when saving from Lightroom
melking_1978 Jan 25, 2017 6:05 AM (in response to dj_paige)Yes correct. I'm not using any software to open the image, just double clicking on the jpeg image I've saved to my Mac desktop.
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4. Re: Image quality poor when saving from Lightroom
melking_1978 Jan 25, 2017 6:08 AM (in response to ManiacJoe)It's version Lightroom 5, on a MacBook Air. Not sure what you mean by image viewer... I'm literally just double clicking in my image which is saved on my desktop. Is this where I'm going wrong?? Thanks, appreciate the help
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5. Re: Image quality poor when saving from Lightroom
dj_paige Jan 25, 2017 6:10 AM (in response to melking_1978)Export with color space set to sRGB
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6. Re: Image quality poor when saving from Lightroom
Per Berntsen Jan 25, 2017 6:10 AM (in response to melking_1978)To do a valid comparison you have view both images at 1:1 (100%) view, where on image pixel is represented by one screen pixel.
Different applications use different smoothing and sharpening algtorithms when scaling the image, resulting in an apparent difference in sharpness.
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7. Re: Image quality poor when saving from Lightroom
Per Berntsen Jan 25, 2017 6:23 AM (in response to Per Berntsen)When exporting the way you did, with no image resizing and no output sharpening, the images should be equally sharp when viewed at 1:1.
But there is a slight tonal difference between the images, which could be due to the Adobe RGB profile.
As others have suggested, try using the sRGB profile instead.
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8. Re: Image quality poor when saving from Lightroom
Jao vdL Jan 25, 2017 6:27 AM (in response to melking_1978)melking_1978 wrote:
Yes correct. I'm not using any software to open the image, just double clicking on the jpeg image I've saved to my Mac desktop.
You are using software in that case. You are using Apple's preview. It is fully color managed but uses a different scaling algorithm to scale down large images to the much lower resolution of your display than Lightroom does. This will make images appear much softer than they looked in Lightroom. If you export in 16 bit tiff, your images will be very close to identical to what you have inside Lightroom. What you should try is to actually scale down to a much lower resolution sRGB jpeg (say 800 pixels on the long side) and to use output sharpening. You'll see it will look very crisp.
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9. Re: Image quality poor when saving from Lightroom
melking_1978 Jan 25, 2017 6:42 AM (in response to Jao vdL)Thanks so much. It seems to have worked!