photoguydan said:
what lightroom export settings should be used to send a jpeg file to yorkphoto for a 20x30 enlargement? I did a search and got so many diff answers , is resizing critical or should I not do that?
20 x 30 inches? Upload the full sized jpg. Better yet, send them a TIFF if you can.
I've never worked with Yorkphoto, so I don't know how they operate. But any reliable company making enlargements with that should know what to do with your file regardless of how you set your dpi. Give them the full sized image, it'll be XXXX pixels by YYYY pixels. Resolution shouldn't matter, if they know what they're doing, but you can select 300 to be safe.
Select your photo, go to Export, choose location, JPG (don't resize, but set resolution if you want), and I'd leave all the sharpening and post processing alone. That should be all it takes. Your image technically isn't a 20 x 30 at that point, but the print house should do that. There's no point in artificially enlarging it yourself.
