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Adjust on export

  • May 8, 2025
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Is there a way to adjust on export?  I use 2 different print labs for events.  One lab looks good but the other I have to increase my temp by 500 and decrease my exposure by 10 for everything to look correct.  Is there an easy way to do this?  Images are close but not all the same so sync will not work. 

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Rob_Cullen
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Community Expert
May 9, 2025

Asking again- Why won't "sync" work?

If you want to "increase my temp by 500 and decrease my exposure by 10 for everything..."

My method would be-

1) Create a Collection of 300+ photos for Lab-A

2) Select all 300+ images in Library view  [Ctrl+A]

3) Press [Ctrl+'] to create Virtual Copies for all 300+ images

4) Filter for Virtual copies intended for Lab-B  (Attribute-  Filter bar)

5) Adjust Temperature and Exposure with the 'arrow' buttons in the Quick Develop Panel.

Thus- Originals = Lab-A.   VCs = Lab-B

 

Then you would Export (as sRGB) Originals and VCs separately.

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.0, Photoshop 27.0, ACR 18.0, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0 .
KR Seals
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Community Expert
May 9, 2025

And, I suggest including the name of the destination lab in the file name.

 

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.
KR Seals
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Community Expert
May 8, 2025

Are you using the exact color space the printer specifies?

 

Ken Seals - Nikon Z 9, Z 8, 14mm-800mm. Computer Win 11 Pro, I7-14700K, 64GB, RTX3070TI. Travel machine: 2021 MacBook Pro M1 MAX 64GB. All Adobe apps.
Nxk2000Author
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May 9, 2025

Both labs suggest sRGB IEC1966-2.1  WHCC and Millers.

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
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May 8, 2025

I run into this same issue printing to Metal Prints. The Metal Substrate is about 1/3-1/2 stop darker than the paper and canvas to which I normally print. It has a slightly warm tint also. 

I found that creating a tone-curve preset accomplishes both the brightening and the color correction on top of what I've already edited. (Disclaimer: I don't normally use a Tone Curve, so it is always unadjusted.) If I am printing to metal, I apply that preset, and life is good. 

I suppose you could create an off-the-edge reverse linear gradient that overlays the entire image and apply the edit there to tweak if you've already used tone curve.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Rob_Cullen
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Community Expert
May 8, 2025

Nothing in the Export dialog gives you this option. Edit adjustments need to be made in the Develop module or the Quick Develop panel of the Library Module. You could make use of Virtual copies and adjust them with Quick Develop adjustments (that 'add to' current edits in an image.)

Not sure what you mean by "so sync will not work".  Do you mean that each image would require independent and different adjustments?

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.0, Photoshop 27.0, ACR 18.0, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0 .
Nxk2000Author
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May 9, 2025

Virtual copies and quick develop would be a way.  I was trying to minimize the number of steps needed.  This job has 300+ dancers and a couple extra minutes per image adds up.  They are youth dancers they all need fine-tuned due to different poses.