That 80% Quality setting we keep repeating is important because it’s a good balance between low file size and high quality. Differences might be easier to see if you zoom in. So you can always preview if visual quality is good enough at the current settings. Notice that as you change the settings like pixel dimensions and Quality, the visual preview on the left changes. You also said you were concerned about maintaining quality.

For example, your screen shot shows 1024 pixels but I just looked at the requirements for a competition website I have used, and it requires a minimum of 1200 pixels on the long side. It would have to be something like a photo from a high megapixel camera that was not downsampled.īecause the file size of a 1024 px JPG image can be as low as the 96 KB as in my example, make sure your Long Side value meets the requirements of the competition.

To exceed 5 MB, a JPEG file needs to have rather large pixel dimensions, and be set to a high Quality value. 96 KB equals just 0.096 MB, so if you thought it was too high before, make sure you were not confusing kilobytes (1000 bytes) and megabytes (1,000,000 bytes).ĥ MB is actually very generous for a JPEG file. Like your example, mine is set to JPG at 80% quality, and it reports an estimated export file size of 96 KB, well below the 5MB limit. But Adobe did it with that low contrast text color that is very difficult to read, so it’s easy to miss.Īs you change settings, the File Size estimate changes, so that you can get it right the first time. You will find a file size preview at the bottom, similar to what Photoshop export dialog boxes have. The answer is right there in the Export dialog box.

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