Originally Posted by
h2oman
Warning: Those of you who are very technically oriented and not able to understand the inefficiencies of some of the rest of should stop reading now!
I'm afraid I have to explain a small part of my ridiculous workflow to explain what I'm having trouble with. I scan my negatives with Vuescan, on the archive setting. I used to get files around 750-800 mb, which I would open in Picture Window Pro (a processing software) and resize to about 320 mb. I use this software because it is what I learned on about 5 years ago when I bought my first (and only DSLR). After resizing it I put it in Lightroom (which I got last year) and work on it. I then export back to PWP to do a few more adjustments before printing. I found that the exported file was always around 900 mb, so I resize again to about 320 mb. Why it got bigger in Lightroom I never knew.
I recently did something (I'm not sure what) in Vuescan so that my scans started being around 400mb. I may have been scanning 16 bit color before, and 16 bit grayscale now? I really don't know. But that is not the big problem. Now when I go to Lightroom and work on a file, then go to export it, it is around 2.2gb, much larger than I want! I think I may have accidentally clicked something with the mouse once when exporting, and changed some setting. I've tried looking at a book on Lightroom that I have to try to figure out what is going on, but I've gleaned nothing from that.
Any help at all from some patient soul would be appreciated.
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