: Saving Images for web and print use I am editing multiple jobs in Lightroom. I will be uploading all to my blog and I might also need to print some of them (not sure which ones) in the

@Berryessa866

First of all, what everyone else is saying is correct, you really should have different assets for print and web.

However, depending on your desired print results you may be able to do what you want. As a general rule, 300PPI at your desired size is an acceptable resolution, it could be double that for high-end products or half that may be acceptable for general home printing. Decide what is appropriate for your use. For example, a 10x8 inch print at 300PPI is 3000x2400 pixels.

Depending on the platform you use for your blog, you should be able to upload at a larger size and have the platform automatically resize and compress the images to a more appropriate size for the blog.

So—decide on the smallest size and resolution you will be able to print at and be happy with, save you images to that size and optimise them enough to be able to upload through your blog platform. Simple.



Note, this is not an ideal solution if you care about image quality to any great extent and you will be pretty stuck if you ever need to print you images any larger.

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@Jessie844

In this day of 1TB (and larger) external drives for less than 0, not to mention all the cloud space/dropbox etc. available, there's absolutely no reason not to have at least two versions of every image. Especially when most web images will (and should) be under 100kb.

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@Si6392903

The cost of disk space is insignificant if you value your work.


Buy an external hard drive, save your RAW files.
If you really adjusted your RAW files export your JPG at the original resolution. Use theese for print. Use very little compression, maximum quality.
Make a batch action on photoshop or whatever program you have to make a copy at lower size, Which size depends on you but they can be lets say 1000 px on the longer side. You can compress theese to medium quality.


You need to keep the 3 types of files. They serve diferent purposes.



Edited: Just as a tip. An excelent quality for a 8x10 print would be 2400x3000px.

A good quality would be 1600x2000px.

A decent one 1200x1500px.

But if you care about quality, do separated jobs.

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