Photo File Size Question

Resize their pixel dimensions and resolution. People say 72 res is good for on screen viewing, but nothing print related. I'm not too good with this kinda stuff, but in photoshop I save as a jpeg baseline optimized with max quality. All of the shots on my flickr are like that. The res and size can vary but the file sizes are near the kb range. No particular rhyme or reason, and there's probably a better way but my results seem fine.
 
In lightroom, all you have to do is select an image and export it. It gives you a choice for different versions, like web, forum, full, print, cmyk, rgb.
 
make a websize export option. resize image to 700px long side, quality 75, if they are going on the web than colour space should be srgb (most people don't have a colour space aware browser)
 
RAW is the beginning not the export, but I agree, why would you dumb down your photos? Storage space is so inexpensive...
 
Go through export in lightroom, pick jpeg, and drop the quality to about 80. Resize them to 1000px ish and they should be fine, I never have a problem even with 4 gig panoramas.
 
Go through export in lightroom, pick jpeg, and drop the quality to about 80. Resize them to 1000px ish and they should be fine, I never have a problem even with 4 gig panoramas.
 
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so my folder where alll of my photos that i take are dividied up into Events, People, Scenery, etc..

in each of those i have the original (IMG_0001.jpg) and the 'post' image (IMG_0001-2.jpg)

do you guys suggest i make a whole new folder titled "originals" to import my photos in every time i connect my camera? and then when i am exporting them, resize/reduce image size? i ask this because i took a really nice shot the other evening and it was a typical 6.4mb image (4631x3112) but after post it was saved and it's 11.0mb. i do NOT want everrry picture i edit to be saved at this size?

finally, since i take my images at 18MP L on my 7D ( i guess the highest quality, besides RAW) i should not change that correct? but instead, only resize and save the image after post as an "e-mail" friendly file (i use Lightroom).

thanks for the help
 
I'm a little perturbed that you have spent all that money on a 7D and have no idea about the remainder of the workflow.

Nevertheless, I'd shoot in raw if I was you, and let LR do it's thing with the originals, I.e; put them in one folder with subfolders for the dates of each photo. Then just have seperate catalogs for events and scenery etc.

Don't worry about file size, just buy another hard drive, it's so cheap and no reason to sacrifice quality

Once you've done all the post in LR then just export them as discussed above.
 
He didn't, his family buys him everything. It took us forever to finally convince him to not delete the original shots.

 
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