SpaceMonkey
Member
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2020
- Messages
- 29
- Location
- Bay Area
- Lightroom Experience
- Intermediate
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic Version 9.3
- Operating System
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
I've got a whole bunch of web ready jpegs, and many of them I've lost the original full size images due to one loss of data I can't explain, don't know how it happened. Anyways, I'm building a new website and the gallery I'm using is really great and I've spent a lot of time as well as some money with a web designer making it work really well, except I've just found out it only accepts maximum widths to constrain the image from just expanding to fill the page. Apparently this is something that's difficult with this kind of image gallery as far as the coding goes.
It's ok for my square Hasselblad images. But I've also got some galleries of digital images with some verticals, and I don't have the orignal files of many of them. I size them so they are all 550px tall so the height isn't jumping all around. But verticals means the width changes, and this image gallery enlarges the vertical images to fill up to the set width, which makes them look terrible not to mention the jarring effect of enlarging and then going back.
So my question is whether there is a way to add a canvas to a jpeg to widen the verticals to the same width as the horizontals, without re-compressing them? I found a neat plugin for Lightroom that adds canvas to images in the export process, but it won't work if I select "orginal" in the file type. I've emailed them about possibly fixing this, but haven't heard back yet.
Is there a way? Below is an example vertical image with the canvas applied. This one was recompressed though by Lightroom.
If the only way is to recompress, is there a best way to do it in Lightroom? I have a nifty plugin called "Mogrify 2" that allows me to add a canvas in export. Should I cap the file size at a certain number, say 280 (550x333 or something vertical image) or should I set the jpeg quality at a certain number?
It's ok for my square Hasselblad images. But I've also got some galleries of digital images with some verticals, and I don't have the orignal files of many of them. I size them so they are all 550px tall so the height isn't jumping all around. But verticals means the width changes, and this image gallery enlarges the vertical images to fill up to the set width, which makes them look terrible not to mention the jarring effect of enlarging and then going back.
So my question is whether there is a way to add a canvas to a jpeg to widen the verticals to the same width as the horizontals, without re-compressing them? I found a neat plugin for Lightroom that adds canvas to images in the export process, but it won't work if I select "orginal" in the file type. I've emailed them about possibly fixing this, but haven't heard back yet.
Is there a way? Below is an example vertical image with the canvas applied. This one was recompressed though by Lightroom.
If the only way is to recompress, is there a best way to do it in Lightroom? I have a nifty plugin called "Mogrify 2" that allows me to add a canvas in export. Should I cap the file size at a certain number, say 280 (550x333 or something vertical image) or should I set the jpeg quality at a certain number?
