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Saving as JPEG (.JPG) Unexpected difficulty.

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:15 pm
by Omega892
I have here a batch of images which I exported from Lightroom 2 as TIFFs.

From these I wished to create downsized JPEGs for quick sample printing for another persons selection.

I was away from home and using Elements 3 on a laptop, the Elements JPEG Save as selection was limited to JPEG 2000 (.JPF,.JPX etc). Other TIFFs had no such restrictions.

I have never encountered this before.

What is going on here?

Re: Saving as JPEG (.JPG) Unexpected difficulty.

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:59 pm
by harveyzone
Omega892 wrote:I was away from home and using Elements 3 on a laptop, the Elements JPEG Save as selection was limited to JPEG 2000 (.JPF,.JPX etc). Other TIFFs had no such restrictions.
This kind of thing is usually due to the file being opened as 16 bit, and needing to be converted to an 8 bit file first.

Re: Saving as JPEG (.JPG) Unexpected difficulty.

Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:43 pm
by Omega892
harveyzone wrote:
Omega892 wrote:I was away from home and using Elements 3 on a laptop, the Elements JPEG Save as selection was limited to JPEG 2000 (.JPF,.JPX etc). Other TIFFs had no such restrictions.
This kind of thing is usually due to the file being opened as 16 bit, and needing to be converted to an 8 bit file first.
Thanks for that swift and spot on reply.

I have indeed found that some file preferences in that area in Lightroom had been changed and I do not recall doing that.