Hello.
I am having issues with exporting out of Photos full size pictures. I don't want to save all the pictures on my Mac, I just want to have a few selected pictures so that I can prepare them for print. When I Get Info on a picture in the Photo library it tells me it is 2.9MB, but when I export it onto my Desktop it is only 918 KB.
How can I selectively bring full size versions of pictures onto my desktop?
Thanks a lot.
File Size is governed by the Quality setting in the export dialogue. Higher Quality means less compression equals larger file size. Export at maximum quality and there's a very good chance your exported file will be larger than the one you imported.
I would note that file size doesn't have much impact on the quality of the resulting prints.
To find the "Quality" options for the exported photos in the "File > Export > Export .. photos" dialog, you have to reveal them by clicking the tiny arrow to the right of "Photo Kind "JPEG" - only then you will see the additional options for the quality and size.
Mac OSX: Exporting Full Size Photo from Photos
