Image Sizing
Different applications work best with different formats. From submission pages requesting images within a specific MP size to alleviating too much Facebook or other social media compression by exporting in their native sizes.
Figure 7.16 – Image Sizing
Resize to Fit offers great flexibility, and we can set the size of exported photographs with very specific rules:
- Width & Height: Here, we can set the maximum width and height of the exported image without changing the original aspect ratio. If we, for example, set this to W:1500XH:1000, Lightroom will export the image, making sure that the whole picture can fit within these dimensions and so the image will have a max height of 1000 and a max width of 1500. Imagine a box with set dimensions into which Lightroom will fit our image without rotating or cropping it.
- Dimensions: When we use this setting, Lightroom will apply a higher value to the longer edge and a lower value to...
