Best Lightroom Export Settings for JPG (2025)

6 min readExport Settings

Settings that consistently produce crisp results with small files.

Recommended Settings (Web/Social)

  • File Settings: Format JPEG, Quality 80–85%, Color Space sRGB
  • Resize: Long Edge 2048 px (social) or 2560–3000 px (web), Don’t Enlarge
  • Output Sharpening: Screen – Standard
  • Metadata: Include Copyright & Contact; strip location if privacy matters
  • DPI: Irrelevant for web; any value is fine (72/300 doesn’t affect pixels)

Why these settings?

They balance detail retention, upload limits, and platform recompression behaviors.

Need to shrink existing JPGs?

Compress images for email/web while keeping them sharp.