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Inspiring
November 11, 2017
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P: More Export Formats Besides Jpg of edited photos!

  • November 11, 2017
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First off I love Lightroom in all iterations: cc classic and mobile. Now that I do a vast majority of my photography on mobile, The limitation of exporting only unedited originals as DNG is a downer. I edit a large portion of my photos in LR mobile and I’m stuck with a not so awesome JPEG as my only export format. DNG or PNG would be fantastic as it preserves the original oomph of the raw capture and allows for higher quality edits in other apps/programs. (I know HEIC is in the works). Greatly appreciated!

42 replies

Participating Frequently
April 11, 2018
There’s a huge thread about this as well in the Lightroom CC category. Perhaps it should be merged?
johna76373788
Known Participant
March 24, 2018
Your absolutely right, for me just allowing more then a 15 image export out of Lightroom mobile at one time would be enough. It’s crazy, the only thing I can think of is that iOS is restricting Adobe due to design flaws in apples setup, but who knows. I’d hate to find out they do this purely to stop people only using mobile and not purchasing creative cloud for desktop. I’d pay more just to get mobile working properly. I’ve got a work around for most things, just waiting on adobe to add multiple image export.
Inspiring
March 24, 2018
John - I will definitely use that’s in a pinch but, you do see how insane that work around is, right? Even down to the fact that the creative cloud app won’t do multiple exports at once. This all just seems bass-ackwards for a company that has its own AI to autotune our images... thank you nonetheless! My hat is off to your puzzle solving abilities!
johna76373788
Known Participant
March 24, 2018
Hi Evan, not sure if this helps, but you mentioned PNG as a option you would like on export. You could try the following, once you have edited your image, choose to edit in photoshop fix for example. Once it opens in fix, don’t edited, just save it back into Lightroom mobile and it will create a new PNG from your original RAW image back in LR Mobile. Then the way you export it is to go into the creative cloud app on same device, look for your album that the png is in and you’ll see it there, which can now be copied to wherever in files. Hope that helps. What I do is at the end of my edit, the selected images I’ve marked a certain way, I filter them, edit them in photoshop fix, but don’t do anything to them and then grab them from creative cloud. Unfortunately creative cloud doesn’t do multiple image exports I believe, so one at a time.
Rick Spaulding -
Legend
November 15, 2017
Thanks again for the input, Steve! 

Like Victoria said, this is the best way to let us know what you think. Just make sure each post is a single idea so we can track it and others can vote on it. 

Cheers!
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 15, 2017
It's so nice to hear the excitement Steve! You've put a big smile on my face.

Here's the best place for feature requests, because other people can vote on the individual ideas and Adobe can get a feel for how popular different features are, which then influences their priorities. 
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Known Participant
November 14, 2017
Rick I actually really like it ‘today’ but want / really need to see more functionality in it .

It’s awesome so far , and i know it’s in it’s infancy .
I truely hope it can become fully fledged .

And of course I’ll be making my thoughts and ideas heard that can hopefully help you to develop it.

How Can I email a wish list and critique to senior developer? - instead of posting fragmented comments , or ideas/ problems .
Like i say it has so much potential , I’ve not been this excited about any software in years .

This has the ability to cut into Capture One Pro sales / users really heavily with a good handful of additions .
Everyone is crying out for a C1 ipad and sync solution , yet while they are saying doing nothing
Adobe has lept frog the industry leader 🙂

In the professional photography industry only 20% at best use Lightroom - that’s a huge market for adobe to capitalise from especially with the cloud storage options .
Rick Spaulding -
Legend
November 14, 2017
Well, like I said, it's brand new and Adobe likes input from customers to help tailor the product to fit their needs.

If ya don't like it today, tell us what you would like it to be tomorrow. I promise you, we are listening!

Cheers! 
Known Participant
November 14, 2017
Thanks Rick

but I Lightroom classic interface is cluttered , ugly and so old looking and not intuitive.
Seriously I cannot use it . I used it for 2 weeks 7 years ago then jumped to Capture one Pro .

However Lightroom mobile and cc have won me back - they have a really nice interface and dry intuitive - shame it’s such a cut down product .
- it should be your halo one .
The cloud sync is great

I’m coming over from Capture One Pro . And I’m seriously impressed , bar a fair few rudimentary shortcomings (like no full export settings control and no curves on CC!)
which I hope will be implemented and sorted out soon.

Seriously not being able to export an image with no compression or Adobe RGB colour space is mental
Rick Spaulding -
Legend
November 14, 2017
Hi Steve,

Good question! For that type of workflow you would continue to use Lightroom Classic. It has all the export options you're used to.

Keep in mind, Lightroom CC is not an update or replacement for Lightroom Classic. It is an entirely new product with a Cloud based workflow. You might find it useful in some ways but when you want full control over the file during export then Lr Classic is your best bet!

Cheers!