LrC Shared Photos Downloading Huge

Question

I've been using Lightroom Classic to share albums for years using the Share & Invite feature, and this is the first time I've run into this issue.

My workflow:

Create a shared album.
Enable Allow Downloads.
Send the shared link to desired party.

Recently, I’ve been told that the downloaded JPGs are much larger than expected. I confirmed the same thing myself. When downloading a single photo from the shared album, I can choose between a full-size JPG or a smaller version. However, when downloading the entire album, there is no size option, and it appears to download only the larger JPGs (my last album averaged about 8 MB per photo, some 10-20 MB).

I don't remember this being the case in the past. Has Adobe changed how shared album downloads work, or is there a setting I'm overlooking that allows entire album downloads to use smaller JPGs instead of full-size files? My goal is share reasonably compressed JPGs without having to export and upload a separate gallery.

Jim Wilde · Answer

I’m pretty sure that the current behaviour hasn’t changed in quite a while, i.e. using the shared album download option will always default to “full size”. Individual images, however, can be downloaded as either “Standard Size” or “Full Size” (“Standard” produces jpegs with a long edge of 2048 pixels, “Full Size” produces jpegs with full cropped image dimensions). Note that Smart Previews, i.e. images synced from LrC, will always download at 2048 pixels on the long edge.

There may be an existing feature request on this site requesting an option for the full album download to be either “Standard” or “Full”. If it doesn’t already exist, I suggest you convert your post to a feature request (Idea).

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