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Lightroom export often looses quality!?
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:14 pm    Post subject: Lightroom export often looses quality!? Reply with quote

Especially all kind of high iso pics are looking visibly worse after export.
I've already noticed that when I was digtializing grainy slides at ISO100, output was sometimes somewhat worse (more grain, lower detail etc.).
Is that normal?



Last edited by ForenSeil on Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:20 pm; edited 1 time in total


PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moin!
When you export - from which format
into which format?


PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Also: compared to what?


PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

twinquartz wrote:
Moin!
When you export - from which format
into which format?

RAW to JPEG, TIFF or anything else. Even without any compression.

@Orio
The Exports are looking worse compared to the display of the RAWs in Lighroom. Look at the pic I've uploaded. Some stars are missing/less bright and some color shades are also missing in the expot.

Today I will reinstall Windows 7 and install my new Lightroom 4. I hope the problem will be gone afterwards.


PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
Today I will reinstall Windows 7 and install my new Lightroom 4.


No, please do not start at that end (time consuming and irritating), and
I do not expect your problem to disappear afterwards.

Are you on Win 7 32- or 64-bit?
S-RGB, A-RGB, or...?
Which graphics card?
Is your monitor calibrated? With what?

I have Win 7 64-bit here, and Photoshop (CS6) 64-bit
(but not LR 4). If you like, I could perform a test run
here, if you agree that we in that way could find out
where the culprit is buried...


PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't have LR.

In screen capture I see contrast difference.

I think matters for which output device LR is configured...screen capture looks like maybe output contrast is set for printing...paper has less DR than screen...


PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What colour profile are you using for export?


PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Presently, I believe that both visualopsins and Orio
are on the right track.


PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, now it's Sunday. How did it go?


PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used sRGB
I formatted my PC, installed new 2x2GB Dual Channel RAM and (had 1x2GB before) Windows 7 SP1 64bit again and upgraded from LR3.6 to LR4.1 Smile
Now the problem is gone. Rolling Eyes
Bye the way - Lightroom is also faster now! Shocked


PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moin!
Ah, good that you found a remedy.
However, Win 64-bit normally wants more
than 2 * 2 GB to be able to process photos.
Examples: when you try focus stacking, the
computer will lock up after only a few photos; HDR
processing is out of the question, and so on.

I put in 12 GB -- now Photoshop, the focus
stacker, the HDR algoritms and I are happy.
Er... better check: it might depend on which Win 7
version you have -- I have a faint memory that
all versions cannot handle the same amount of RAM.
-- a little later --
Yes, I was right. Here are the maximum amounts of
of RAM that Win 7 64-bit versions can handle:

•Starter: 8GB
•Home Basic: 8GB
•Home Premium: 16GB
•Professional: 192GB
•Enterprise: 192GB
•Ultimate: 192GB

Another limit is, of course, what the motherboard
is built for.


PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ForenSeil wrote:
I used sRGB
I formatted my PC, installed new 2x2GB Dual Channel RAM and (had 1x2GB before) Windows 7 SP1 64bit again and upgraded from LR3.6 to LR4.1 Smile
Now the problem is gone. Rolling Eyes
Bye the way - Lightroom is also faster now! Shocked

I have Windows 7 Ultimate and when I bumped up the stock memory from 4 to 16Gb Lightroom was amazingly fast. That goes for all the plugins I use too, it was a revelation that blew me away. Cool