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What's the best way to shrink a photo's dimensions?

What's the best way to shrink a photo's dimensions? - Lightroom Tutorial

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What's the best way to shrink a photo's dimensions?

- When you go to export a file, you often want to resize, but there's more than one way to do this. Let's talk about some strategies for exporting to a specific dimension, how to get the best results. So in this case, let's take this photo. We'll go ahead and switch to the Develop module and crop. You see that it's currently got a crop of 16 by nine. Yours may be slightly different, but crop to the target size and press Return. Now, when you go to the Export dialog, I want you to pay attention to a couple of key features. You'll notice here Image Size. In the Resize option, there are several choices. You could resize to specific dimensions or put a not to exceed size for the long edge or the short edge. You can also target a megapixel count or a percentage. If I'm just doing a quick resize for social media, a lot of times the social media application is going to resize that image anyways. So rather than sizing to a…

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