Question - Aperture Preview Settings

I import RAW photo files from my Canon S95 camera into Aperture 3.1.2, then touch them up a little (sharpen, straighten, correct lens distortion). I have read that the Aperture screen display of the newly-created Versions is influenced by the settings in Preferences/Preview. But do these Preview Quality and Preview Compression settings *also* affect the JPEG's I create when I perform the Export Version function ? I want to convert the touched-up RAW master files into the highest-quality JPEG's possible. At the same time I was hoping to shrink the amount of hard drive space gobbled up by these previews. Can I lower the Preview quality and still have high-quality JPEG exports?

lamont wrote:
I have read that the Aperture screen display of the newly-created Versions is influenced by the settings in Preferences/Preview.
Where did you read this?
lamont wrote:
But do these Preview Quality and Preview Compression settings *also* affect the JPEG's I create when I perform the Export Version function ?
No, they do not in any way, as long as you use an "Export" command and do not "export" by dragging from the Browser.
lamont wrote:
I want to convert the touched-up RAW master files into the highest-quality JPEG's possible.
"touched-up RAW master files" are, in Aperture, Version. Use "File→Export→Version ... " and specify whatever you want in an Export Preset.
lamont wrote:
At the same time I was hoping to shrink the amount of hard drive space gobbled up by these previews. Can I lower the Preview quality and still have high-quality JPEG exports?
You can delete all of your Previews and still export Versions. The Preview settings have nothing to do with the export settings.
The User Manual page on Previews is a bit of a slog, but will answer -- iirc -- all of your questions. (If it doesn't, sorry -- I'm on a connection to slow to double-check links.)

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