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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

Known Participant
November 14, 2017
+1 I raised this in another thread.

In the mobile app we only have one option 2048px , with no control of the compression level or colour space .
While an sRGB compressed jpg at 2048px is fine for web use and general previews .

I find an iPad Pro is great for editing/ grading images , it’s a shame it only has one option.

Plus on desktop Lightroom cc is very limited by its output options too
-in fact there is NO WAY to output a highest quality jpg or tiff Adobe RGB file , all outputs (even full size) have compression and are only sRGB .
That’s amatuer at best.

So if I make a grat image and a lovely grade , how do I pass the best quality version to my client or print for myself.?
(The original + xmp is ridiculous - designers just want an adobe RGB tiff to embed in their design layout.)

Do adobe think this is a web only tool? And have they gone completely immersed in ‘the cloud’ thinking people don’t need full quality images any more?
Rick Spaulding -
Legend
November 14, 2017
Thanks, Evan. Great idea!