[UpNorth]

I've got a team photo I took of my daughter's soccer team that the coach would like to have made into a poster. Not knowing what he wanted it for, he asked if I would give him a copy on his flash drive. I did a simple drag and drop from Aperture, which converted it to JPG and gave him a file of about 550 KB's. When he tried to turn it into a poster it obviously didn't work too well, so he asked me if I had a file with more resolution. Since I hadn't tried anything like this before, I started messing around with some of the menu items, and I noticed that if I exported the Master from Aperture to a flash drive it copies over as a 9 MB+ file. That seems great - except I see that it's a PEF file, so I assume when he takes it to get printed, they won't be able to open/read it.

1) Is my assumption probably correct?

2) If the answer to #1 is yes, is there a way to get him a "better" file than the 550 KB JPG it converts to when I drag and drop it?


Since I always shoot in RAW - so I have all the data there - it seems like there should be some kind of way to get a better resolution file for sharing, printing, etc.....


Thanks in advance for any advice/help you can provide,

Tim

[hcc]

Have you tried PDCU? In PDCU, you can read a RAW file and save it as a JPEG file. During the 'save as', you can select the resolution and quality of the JPEG file.

For example, on my K-7, I save as 14Mp (*) and each file is about 1.5 Mb compared to about 2.2 Mb for 14 Mp (**).

My 5 cents comments....

[boriscleto]

Use Export Version (Cmnd-Shift E). From Export Preset choose JPEG-Original Size. The JPEG should be several Megabytes.

[UpNorth]

Use Export Version (Cmnd-Shift E). From Export Preset choose JPEG-Original Size. The JPEG should be several Megabytes.

I must be doing something wrong - although I don't know what, as it's pretty simple - but I just tried a different file, and when following the above instructions I get a 70 KB file on the flash drive. For comparison, I then just tried the simple drag and drop, and it went on the flash drive as a 782 KB file?!?!?!

[RallyDriver96]

Not a quick fix, as I've never really used Aperture, but I would suggest downloading a trial version of lightroom3 and then exporting the file as a JPEG with 100% quality. Typically the file size will be between 7-9mb. That's the only way I've ever done it.

[boriscleto]

Lets try something different then. From the Photo menu select Set JPEG as Master, or right click on the photo and select Set JPEG as Master. Then use Export Master.

[RossCo]

Why would you download Lightroom when he already has Aperture?

Paul

[RossCo]

Tim

If you export it to email as original size you should get a jpeg file around 2.5 meg. You can also export it as a Tiff or a PSD file. An exported Tiff file will be about 80+ meg. The PSD file will be a similar size.

Paul

[UpNorth]

Thanks to all for the suggestions/help.
As an FYI, I exported as a (huge) TIFF file to my flash drive and had them print from that - and it turned out very nice!

Thanks again,

Tim