I'm now obliged to export at Max Quality to get Full Size images
This change has happened since I signed up to iCloud Photos and almost-40,000 images were uploaded to the cloud. I have opted to have the full resolution images kept on my iMac with optimised versions on my MacBook Pro and iPhone.
Today I am away from home with my MacBook Pro and I wanted to export a full-size image from Apple Photos. On checking with Command-i the info panel assured me its resolution was 5038 x 3778.
I selected High Quality and Full Size as I have many times before, but on exporting the image I found it was only 1068 x 768. I tried several more pictures with the same result. After half an hour of experimentation I found I could "Edit With" in Preview and open the full resolution image then save it.
Then I found that if I selected Maximum Quality when exporting from Photos it would also give me the 5038 x 3778 full resolution.
Trouble is, that file size is 11.5Mb. When using High Quality I would have expected full resolution but more compression and a file size of around 4Mb. I export my images quite often to upload to Flickr and have been happy with High Quality for that purpose.
Now it seems I have to accept the larger file sizes and corresponding longer upload times – either that or my exported images are no better than screen-grabs.
Can anyone tell me why is this happening and if there is there a way round it?
Thank you
MacBook Pro 17″, OS X 10.11