Size

Hello

What size image (resolution) do you guys usually like to view your images at?
And also - what program do you use to browse through your images.

Sure - for hosting web images, various websites have rules about certain sizes.
But if I want to see my pictures at their BEST quality, what is the the optimum way?

To view as RAW? These files often take a long time to load up and to browse through.
Or to view as jpeg/tiff?


Cheers

lightroom

Also..

Let's say I want to share some photos via email.
I might resize to about 800x600 for ease of a smaller file size,

but what resolution is good for uploading to websites, but not being TOO big.
viewing an image on full screen what I'd like to see really - but people's screen sizes vary.

Any ball-park figures on resolutions?
1024x768?

I can't seem to find the Full Screen view in Light Room..

gabers99 wrote in post #11543012
I can't seem to find the Full Screen view in Light Room..

Press the F key once or twice to toggle through the screen options.

My Lightroom library consists of all my Raw files as well as files I've created tiff Photoshop "projects", not to mention the thousands of images from my pre-DSLR pre-Raw days, so LR is my main browser -- waiting a few seconds for standard previews to be refreshed is no big deal to me.

Aternatively I'll sometimes go to Bridge for something, or, in recent months, DPP for browsing and sometimes for a quick in-and-out conversion of some shots.

So, the only time I would browse at anything but the full original resoution is when I'm checking into a directory that I've used to store jpeg conversions, and then any old thing will do -- I can set my system file browser to show thumbnails and I can view them in my system image viewer quickly so no pain.

When I do a Web image conversion I follow POTN rules, as in a max of 1024 at the widest dimension, although occasionally I'll veer from that for, say, a tall portrait-oriented shot that I may prefer to be 800 pixels tall. For images I want to upload from my computer, I'll size at 800 max, as wall as "unimportant" images I may upload to my Web host but are not for real gallery/image sharing use.

For email sharing, I guess something similar applies -- if it's a "good" image I may prefer the 1024 max, for others 800 max. But, I more often will point people to my Web host home page or a specific gallery of interest. For "special" shoots I do for an individual but that are not meant for "public" view I password-protect the galleries and will confide that password to the client or friend.