Increase quality of downloadable files when sharing in Lightroom CC

Question

I have edited photos in LR classic, organised into collections, synced and shared from LR in the browser. When clients download the images, they are very small, so I imagine that's the smart preview as Jim explains in the thread linked below (7MB file downloading as 200KB).

Jim's suggestion is to upload the full size original file from a LRCC client in order to have full sized images available in the albums for clients to download from. I've opened the LRCC desktop client on the same machine as LR classic, but they're already 'in' the cloud (as smart previews only?) and I don't know how to now push the originals up into the cloud from there.

Grateful for any suggestions!

Mark

(Follow on from this 'closed' thread, which gives the answer but doesn't quite explain how to do it. https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom/high-quality-file-sharing-in-lightroom-cc/td-p/9859257?page=1)

JP Hess · Answer

If the full-sized images are 7 MB I'm assuming they are JPEG images. What you probably will have to do is export a full set of JPEG images to your computer that runs Lightroom Classic and then instead of creating a collection and sharing that collection you will have to import those JPEG images directly into Lightroom. Doing that will add the full-sized images to the cloud. You cannot add full-sized images FROM Lightroom Classic.

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