Optimal Image Export Settings for Lightroom

  • Resolved lfaber

    (@lfaber)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Jordy!

    This is probably not the right place to post this. But I thought I’d ask anyways as I cannot figure out a better venue.

    I am wondering what your recommendations are in terms of export settings for images in Lightroom (Photoshop also). IE Is there an image file size cap you recommend. What are the tradeoffs between file size and image dimensions.

    I am also a photographer and have a constant conundrum between quality and file size. Thought I’d ask as I figure that you are also in the same boat as me.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-retina-2x/

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  • Plugin Author Jordy Meow

    (@tigroumeow)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hello there,

    Actually my idea is to avoid caring about the file size too much and try to display images of high quality 🙂 I don’t think it hurts the SEO and doesn’t make the visitors run away. Of course not everyone has a fast connection and depending on your website the experience can be frustrating…

    In my opinion, a page full of “photography” should be 3~4 mo maximum. If it’s a commercial website selling a product the max should be much less, around 300~500ko, since the goal is different.

    My pages on totorotimes.com are quite heavy (very heavy actually) but nobody complained about it yet 🙂

    If you want to optimize your images, you can also use a plugin called EWWW Image Optimizer or EWWW Image Optimizer Cloud. I actually use it, it works well with my retina plugin.

    Another thing, I don’t like the fact that my photos are disconnected from my lightroom and in case I would like the option to upload them “bigger” later. For that, I am working on a plugin Lightroom / WordPress that handles the synchronisation. It actually works already but I would like to work on it more yet before selling it. If you are interested in synchronization between LR and WP, please contact me through meow.fr and you can become a beta tester for the plugin and of course it will be free forever 🙂

    Thread Starter lfaber

    (@lfaber)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks for the quick reply Jordy. And for the tip about EWWW Image Optimizer. I’ll experiment a bit. Image file size does impact SEO in terms of page load speed (I work in SEO). Hence my concerns. It’s always a balance.

    I’ll ping you re the BETA test (Thanks for the offer)..

    L

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