Can Lightroom 3 upload original JPEG files to Flickr without recompressing them?
Asked 7/14/2011
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I use Lightroom 3 to catalog JPEG photos and want to publish them to Flickr without any resizing, sharpening, watermarking, or recompression. In the Flickr Publish Service, I can disable most output changes, but the JPEG quality setting still forces Lightroom to export a new JPEG. When I download the Flickr “original,” its file size is much smaller than my source file, suggesting Lightroom recompressed it before upload. Is there any way in Lightroom 3 to upload the actual original JPEG file unchanged, or does Lightroom always create a new exported copy?
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Don't believe you can tell LR to do that.
Regardless of whether you import raw or JPEG into LR, LR will always export derivatives of your originals, never the originals themselves.
While LR is good at managing libraries of images, my take is that LR assumes you want to make modifications to jpegs that you've imported, otherwise why import them. This assumption doesn't really apply to raw images, since you'll always be exporting a final result that is in a different file format from the original.
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Lightroom 3’s built-in Flickr Publish Service does not upload the original JPEG file unchanged. It always exports a new derivative, even if you disable resize, sharpening, and watermarking and even if you made no edits.
So for JPEGs, Lightroom will still recompress on export. Setting quality to 100 may reduce visible loss, but it is still an exported copy rather than the original file.
If you need Flickr to receive the true original JPEG, use Flickr’s own web uploader/Uploadr, or a third-party Lightroom plug-in such as Jeffrey Friedl’s Flickr plug-in, which was suggested by the community as a way to preserve originals while still fitting into a Lightroom-based workflow.
In short: with Lightroom 3 alone, no — it always creates and uploads a copy, not the untouched original.
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