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October 19, 2017
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P: Additional options needed when exporting

  • October 19, 2017
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I ask because when you export in Lightroom CC, called "save to," the only parameter you can adjust is the pixels. Nothing else that I can see. In other versions of Lightroom you get a whole bunch of parameters to adjust, including DPI. Clients specify sometimes the settings that they want. Or another possibility is that I'm doing it wrong, and if so, could someone let me know how to export and adjust things like DPI.

212 replies

Inspiring
February 25, 2019
I'm trailing this thread on Lightroom CC and noticing the export issue.  After reading this thread I'm not interested in Lightroom CC.  What do professional photographers use?

tims14661503
Participating Frequently
February 25, 2019
Oddly enough, that is now my new workflow.
Import to LR Classic, make my pick, then make a collection for cloud, and then edit on the iPad and all is synced.
Once I’ve finished, I can delete that collection on the cloud and local edit are kept.
Inspiring
February 25, 2019
The workflow that kind of works for me so far: I edit and send on iPad what is really necessary. I sync from iPad with adobe cloud to Lightroom Classic (NOT CC) on my laptop. There I edit and export further what I need. LR CC is terrible, but by syncing to LR classic I get more flexibility, without losing the editing work I did on the iPad.
akscooby
Participant
February 25, 2019
Started using IPAD Pro with LR Mobile but it is pretty much useless to export anything since the quality is far too low for pretty much everything I want to do.  Try sharing a LR export on Facebook to see how bad it looks as an example!

Despite the so called "maximum" option - Working on RAW files which exported from desktop with decent settings come out about 10MB and look fine on Social Media.  The same file from LR CC comes out at 3MB on the Ipad export (this is the original RAW which has been imported onto the IPAd and actually synced by LR back to desktop classic version)

Might be fine for some use cases, but when sharing on Social Media (which is about only time I would export from the ipad) Its obviously compressed again by FB but quality is already too low to allow this to happen so it comes out the other side shockingly bad!
Participant
February 18, 2019


We need more exporting options - smaller file compression, Tiff and PNG files, etc.
Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 21, 2019
You can still export photos, just in Lightroom CC (the new baby cloudy one) it's called Save To.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Inspiring
January 21, 2019
What is up with not being able to export files anymore from LR CC????  That has always been a feature I used a lot to order prints from my photo lab.
Inspiring
December 24, 2018
+1 
Channel swapping is part of my editing process. I can't edit photos on Lightroom Mobile while on the go and then later finish up on my computer at home. Using compressed JPEG exports for final edits is not ideal. I understand that the company wants to segment their market but this is a basic feature. 

Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 20, 2018
> I want to get an original out of Lightroom CC

In LR CC desktop, select the photo (or multiple photos in Grid view), go to File menu > Save To > Original & Settings format. That'll download the original from the cloud if it's not already stored locally, and save it to your hard drive in its original format.
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Participating Frequently
November 19, 2018
Jean, why not use LR Classic? Classic has the printing module, so you could ditch going via Aperture.