How share a photo from LR (desktop) to email on Mac?

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October 23, 2024
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Hi, I'm trying to send a photo I have edited in LR (desktop Mac) and send it in email. I can only see (so far) that I can export to another drive / location or maybe send a link.(I don't want to do those. Too complicated for whoever I'm sending the photo to.) But I just want to email the actual photo. (I know how to do this from LR Mobile). This should be easy, but it I'm not seeing how to do it nor have I found anything on Google showing how to do this. (Sending a photo via email.).. Thank you!

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Conrad_C

Community Expert

Adding another option to Rob_Cullen’s great reply, in Lightroom Classic there is an Email Photo command right on the File menu. If you select multiple images, it says Email Photos. And it shows a keyboard shortcut.

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positiveguy1960Author

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Thank you! I didn't realize LR Desktop is a mobile version! Kind of funny because usually (at least in the past) desktop versions used to be the "full featured" version and mobile version was the stripped down not full featured version.. Thanks.

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

Two answers-

@positiveguy1960 Lightroom-Desktop is a 'mobile' version of the apps. Photos are stored in the Lightroom Cloud. So TBMK currently you can only [Export / Share] an image copy to a local drive then email as an attachment as you would any other email, or [Share] to a web link you provide to the recipient. (There is no 'email' facility within the Lightroom-Desktop app.)

@Seaquence Lightroom-Classic has its own email facility that is relatively easy to use (although some have difficulty setting it up). Select image in Library > [Right-Click] > Email.... or [Export] an image with file settings that suit email file sizes to the local drive then email as an attachment as you would any other email.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .

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Seaquence

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I send lots of images by email. Nothing huge, as I use a file sharing service for those too big for email but anything under 12mb seems to send fine. I just export jpgs from preset sizes in LRC to my desktop and then attach them to emails from there. If there is a better way, I'd like to know about it too.

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