P: Ability to export to PNG file format

^^ It's Lightroom, you expected speed?

But it is slow as hell.

Awesome!  I just checked on how to update to the latest version and there is no 8.4 (Classic) available via the Creative Cloud app.  I am using Classic for Windows Desktop.  Thoughts?

There are some good reasons for exporting to PNG. One of them is that uploading a JPG to Facebook will result in a greatly degraded image compared to uploading a PNG.

Another reason is that sometimes you need to preserve an alpha channel in a Photoshop file or TIFF file, and JPG does not support alpha channels.

I don't imagine it's too hard for them to add the option to export to PNG... after all, Photoshop easily and readily exports to PNG. 

Adobe, please add ability to save from Camera Raw in PNG format also! 
 
When one want to save/export image(s) from Camera Raw, there are JPG, TIFF, DNG and PSD already, but it would be quite useful to have the ability to choose PNG also. 

Yeah, I already do that.  But it would be nice if Lightroom offered it as an option, like it does during import.

Hi Jared,

If it helps, you can make a copy of your LR catalog and store it wherever you want:

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/create-catalogs.html#copy_or_move_a_catalog
    
 

Every survey I do for Adobe, I ask for two things; sometimes three, but the first two are:

1 - Please allow us to export PNG files

2 - Please allow us to save the catalog in a secondary location for safe backup.
      (we already have the option to save images to a second location while importing, why not allow us to save the catalog to a second location when creating a backup?)