I'm new to Aperture and am having trouble exporting. I have tried exporting to Desktop and then sending from their but the quality of the images received is very poor.
Is there something I can change in the preferences/export section of Aperture to increase the quality of the exports?
What should I put as my 'external photo editor' in preferences?
Well there you have it. Thanks!!!
Hi “English Bay Chick” (btw, you may want to update your profile with a real name… so we don’t have to call you “English Bay Chick” in the forum ;-)
When you export (menu: File > Export > Version…) you have a choice of pre-made presets to choose from (such as full size, half size, etc.), and you can create your own export presets as well. I don’t know how you exported before, but you should never have a poor quality export. It sounds like perhaps the images were scaled further in your mail application if what was received was very poor.
External photo editor is only if you are using an app like Photoshop in addition to Aperture, and you can set it to whatever application you like.
Since you’re just getting started, you may want to consider some training. Check out the Aperture Training Store for a variety of text and video based training you can download.
@PhotoJoseph
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Interesting, I’m having the same issue with Apple’s Mail application. I can export an 8MB jpeg onto my desktop, open gmail, and attach the pic with no problem.
However, if I export that same 8MB jpeg to the Mail application the image becomes 185KB.
My Export to Mail setting is:
File > Preferences > Export > Email Photo Export preset > JPEG Original Size
I’ve also tried:
File > Preferences > Export > Email Photo Export preset > Email - Original Size JPEG
Dustin,
Have you noticed the Image Size setting at the bottom right of each new email? It has a pop-up menu to set the image size to Small, Medium, and Large or Actual Size. Mail will automatically resize all images in the current email to that setting. Each new email defaults to the last setting you used.
Tom
Thomas