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My destination websites restrict image size by Kb not Pix. I have to keep image size below 500Kb. I cannot find how to change the Process Recipe Layout information to show Kb instead of Pix. Otherwise, how can I use Pix to gauge the overall size equivalent.
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  • Ian Wilson
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    You can't readily set that in the process recipe. But in the process summary section of the output tab, it will show you an approximate size in KB. It does vary a bit from image to image, depending on the content and therefore the amount of JPEG compression. I'm looking at several images where I have a process recipe set to 2048 px long side and they are all shown as something around ~481 KB. However, the actual output JPGs show as more than that in Finder on the Mac. (One shows as 613 KB when actually output.) But that in itself is not a very reliable guide, either, I think, and on sending the file to someone with a PC, Windows may show something different.

    It is actually quite difficult to target a precise size in KB. It can be greatly affected by the JPG quality setting. For instance if I change that from 80 to 75, and image that C1 says will be 481 KB at the 80 setting it says will be 417 at the 75 setting. For display on a website, 80 is probably higher than needed anyway. (And trying the same image at 80 and 75, then viewing the JPG in Capture One, I can't see the difference in quality.)

    You may be best to experiment with an output of something like 2000 px long side, and a quality setting of say 75, and see whether that gets you consistently below 500 KB. You probably want to stick to a fairly consistent pixel size and quality setting rather than vary those factors every time to hit the magic 500KB.

    Ian
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Ian3 wrote:
    You can't readily set that in the process recipe. But in the process summary section of the output tab, it will show you an approximate size in KB. It does vary a bit from image to image, depending on the content and therefore the amount of JPEG compression. I'm looking at several images where I have a process recipe set to 2048 px long side and they are all shown as something around ~481 KB. However, the actual output JPGs show as more than that in Finder on the Mac. (One shows as 613 KB when actually output.) But that in itself is not a very reliable guide, either, I think, and on sending the file to someone with a PC, Windows may show something different.


    I had noticed it too on Windows when I needed some output files to stay below a certain file size. CO estimates didn't match real situation and I often had to output again and again lowering quality setting.

    JPEGmini plugin could be useful in such situations maintaining quality while reducing size.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    I too can recommend the JPEGmini plugin. The integration with Capture One is great and it downsizes your images while retaining the image quality.
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  • SFA
    Just a quick note here that as far as I know at this time JPEGMini is Mac only.


    Grant
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    SFA wrote:
    Just a quick note here that as far as I know at this time JPEGMini is Mac only.


    Grant


    Not according to their blog and site.

    https://help.jpegmini.com/help/capture-one-plug-in-for-windows
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  • Keith Reeder
    SFA wrote:
    Just a quick note here that as far as I know at this time JPEGMini is Mac only.

    From their site:
    Which operating systems does JPEGmini Pro support?
    JPEGmini Pro runs on:
    Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Mac OS X 10.7 or higher


    https://www.jpegmini.com/faq
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  • SFA
    Keith Reeder wrote:
    SFA wrote:
    Just a quick note here that as far as I know at this time JPEGMini is Mac only.

    From their site:
    Which operating systems does JPEGmini Pro support?
    JPEGmini Pro runs on:
    Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Mac OS X 10.7 or higher


    https://www.jpegmini.com/faq


    Thanks for that Keith.

    Perhaps it was the original C1 Plug-in development that was Mac only?

    Grant
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Very grateful thanks for all your inputs.
    I think I might have solved this by accident, these being my first steps into C1/20.
    I created an output contact sheet which I then opened in Preview - I am on iMAC 10.14.6. That allowed me to look at the INSPECTOR section which gave me all the sizes Kb, Pix, DPI etc. I think I might be able to play around with that image to get what I need.
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