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Smugmug and PSE 5

billydbillyd Registered Users Posts: 10 Big grins
edited June 20, 2007 in SmugMug Support
Perhaps a silly question, but I'm an old film guy just getting my head wrapped around digital. I have PSE 4 and a trial version of PSE 5. I tried the direct download to my Smugmug gallery. Very fast and easy! I shoot in Raw, convert and edit with PSE and save as a PSD file. I was able to download very large PSD files to my gallery using PSE 5. My question is, are these files converted to JPEG by Smugmug, and if so, what quality? I ask this because I expect to be ordering large (11x14) prints of some images.
Thanks,
Bill D.

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    richWrichW Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2006
    Unless something changed, smugmug doesn't support PSD files.
    More info here: http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photos
    Check your photos uploaded log to see if you have any errors like this:
    200x50Watermark.psd | Error upload problem: | Non-JPEG/GIF/PNG/MPG
    Try uploading jpeg file.
    re: ordering large print, check smugmug's minimum print requirements here:
    http://www.smugmug.com/help/print-quality

    Hope this helps....
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    billydbillyd Registered Users Posts: 10 Big grins
    edited November 2, 2006
    The photos are there and are listed in the log as PSD files.
    richW wrote:
    Unless something changed, smugmug doesn't support PSD files.
    More info here: http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photos
    Check your photos uploaded log to see if you have any errors like this:
    200x50Watermark.psd | Error upload problem: | Non-JPEG/GIF/PNG/MPG
    Try uploading jpeg file.
    re: ordering large print, check smugmug's minimum print requirements here:
    http://www.smugmug.com/help/print-quality

    Hope this helps....
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    richWrichW Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2006
    billyd wrote:
    The photos are there and are listed in the log as PSD files.
    headscratch.gif I just tried to upload a PSD, and received an error.
    Maybe Andy, Barb or one of the Pros can give you a hand with this one..
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    onethumbonethumb Administrators Posts: 1,269 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2006
    billyd wrote:
    Perhaps a silly question, but I'm an old film guy just getting my head wrapped around digital. I have PSE 4 and a trial version of PSE 5. I tried the direct download to my Smugmug gallery. Very fast and easy! I shoot in Raw, convert and edit with PSE and save as a PSD file. I was able to download very large PSD files to my gallery using PSE 5. My question is, are these files converted to JPEG by Smugmug, and if so, what quality? I ask this because I expect to be ordering large (11x14) prints of some images.
    Thanks,
    Bill D.

    PSE5 is converting anything that's not a JPEG, GIF, or PNG to JPEG prior to upload, including PSDs.

    Hope that helps!

    Don
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    richWrichW Registered Users Posts: 941 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2006
    richW wrote:
    Maybe Andy, Barb or one of the Pros can give you a hand with this one..
    Sorry..I meant to say. Maybe onethumb can give you a hand.:D
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    billydbillyd Registered Users Posts: 10 Big grins
    edited November 2, 2006
    onethumb wrote:
    PSE5 is converting anything that's not a JPEG, GIF, or PNG to JPEG prior to upload, including PSDs.

    Hope that helps!

    Don

    Don
    I enabled right click and checked out the original size properties. It shows a JPG file of 401404 bytes for a 3136 x 2352 image. PSD file was 45.2 Mb.
    It seems that uploading a PSD from PSE 5 results in a pretty small file.
    Bill D.
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    onethumbonethumb Administrators Posts: 1,269 Major grins
    edited November 2, 2006
    billyd wrote:
    Don
    I enabled right click and checked out the original size properties. It shows a JPG file of 401404 bytes for a 3136 x 2352 image. PSD file was 45.2 Mb.
    It seems that uploading a PSD from PSE 5 results in a pretty small file.
    Bill D.

    You'd have to take that up with Adobe, I don't think we have any control over that. As you know, we're happy to accept 8MB (or 16MB for Pros) files, so 400K is way below our limits. :)

    Don
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited June 20, 2007
    Saving files in PSE5
    Be sure you use Save As, and if working from RAW files and you want to upload to SmugMug, be sure NOT to check

    Save in version set with Original. Just do a normal "save as" jpg and then upload that file thumb.gif

    165094529-L-0.jpg
    Andy

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