Originally posted by jpzk Camera used: K3 (as usual - nothing changed)
I usually have fairly decent JPEG files size after importing the RAW(DNG) file into CS5.
Today, I've checked a few files and I found that some RAW files at 29MB resulted into 10MB JPEG files.
Maybe I am now doing something wrong, or something has changed in my CS5 settings, but I think that the resulting JPEG files should be larger??
Any idea anyone?
Thanks!
Also, files that are predominantly one colour will compress more than files with many colours, lots of contrast, detail, dynamic range, etc. So some may be 10 megs, others as small as 3. Perfectly normal.
RE: monitor. Jpegs are primarily for online viewing, because they are very lossy, so you really only need 96 or 120 DPI, so your files could actually be smaller. I have a 27" iMac, so I do mine to fit my screen resolution, which is 2550 x 1440 or so - I leave some leeway, so I do 3000 on the long side @ 120 dpi. Most of my jPegs for viewing are around 3 megs. The new 5K scenes have way higher resolution, so I might have to reprocess stuff one day, but I always keep my DNG files.
If you're printing, you want TIFFs at 300 DPI or slightly higher. Those will be huge - 100 megs or more.
And if you want to learn CS, go to youtube - about a trillion video tutorials now, including stuff for CS5.
Cheers,
Cameron