This isn’t the same as awarding yourself an “A+” grade for your work. There are other options in this queue, but these are the most frequently used.īy this point, you’ve probably begun fiddling with the quality toggle, presumptuously sliding it towards that shiny “100,” unit value. And so, if the answer is, ‘export it online,’ you won’t want a long wait – skip the swirling color wheel and go JPEG.
This file format will save your editing metadata, whereas JPEG will flatten the image , making for a smaller file. Selecting TIFF (or TIF) file will be preferred in this case. Now, the big question, what are you going to do with your photo? If the answer is, ‘print it,’ you won’t want to lose data in transit to your printer. Once you’ve designated a home and name for your photo, scroll down to You should later add it to a specific folder within your external hard drive’s catalog for Lightroom. Give the photos a project title, underscore, and then the date (e.g. For finding photos post-production, the more granular you are the better. Once, you are in the drop down menu, the first task you’ll have is to consider how easily you want to find your file after export. Instead, let’s run through the options on Lightroom’s export drop menu and consider what’s popular for most of the photographic community.įrom the Lightroom main page, under “library,” click the export button on the bottom left hand side of the screen (or right click on the photo). Getting into the details of exporting images from medium and large format digital cameras is a far more laborious task for another time. Many of these models fall within the sensor sizes of about 24 to 36MP (megapixels), which makes export resolution size an easier topic to discuss. However, for the career photographer who needs to deliver files quickly and meet the formatting standards of different media (be they print or digital), this article may just save you from dropping the ball.įor the sake of keeping things simple, let’s assume that I’m addressing DSLR and mirrorless camera users. For the average hobbyist, upload speed and quality aren’t even a second thought when it comes to developing, so long as your photo makes it to Instagram and begins drawing favor among your peers. That is, the sizes, resolutions, and file types you designate to a photo during the export process (input) will, in turn, dictate that photo’s storage real estate, visual appeal, and processing speed upon upload or print (output). Exporting from Lightroom is a game of inputs and outputs.
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