Monday, June 29, 2009

Jpeg Generation for InDesign Help....

I have completed the book organization and text sections and am now experimenting with JPEG export settings from lightroom that will give me me a file with enough quality yet reasonable size. I have tried 750 pixels, 1280 pixels and non-sized files from Lightroom at a quality setting of 75-80. I am still seeing too much pixelation in my book preview.

My book dimensions are 8.5 X11, landscape format. Can anyone share what settings and dimensions have worked for them? I am using Adobe InDesign if that makes any difference.

Thanks in advance for your help.
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  1. NattfoddJune 30, 2009 at 1:02 AM

    Hi George,

    export full-size jpg from lightroom and use those in your books, but ask indesign to reduce the file size for you. For that to work, select "smallest file size" (iirc) in the pdf export presets, and check the image settings. I ask mine to downsample images to 150dpi, and with some additional tweaking, it got my 12x12 76 images book down to less than 10MB.

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  2. George C PappasJune 30, 2009 at 6:39 AM

    Hi Natt,

    Thanks for the advice. I tried downsampling my jpegs out of Lightroom to 100dpi and the seemed OK but not as great as I had hoped. I will give your suggestion a go tonight..

    Best Regards,
    George

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  3. AnonymousJune 30, 2009 at 6:59 AM

    I also had good success setting the PDF export to downsample images to 150dpi

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