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November 20, 2018
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Is there a way to share an album at a specific photo size?

  • November 20, 2018
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I just sold my old laptop and bought a Mac Mini + iPad Pro. I want to give Lightroom CC a shot and see if I can exclusively use it in my workflow. I'm trying to figure out the best way I can work with my Mac Mini and iPad to edit photos and share with clients.

With LR Classic, I'll edit a job, export the photos at 2048 pixels on the long edge, and throw those photos up on Google Drive and share them with my client.

I see with LR CC that there is a "Share Album" feature and allows people to download the photos. Perfect! I don't even need Google Drive anymore I thought... but looking into the Share Album export, it's pretty basic. I don't see any way to set the photo size that users will get when they download the album.

There is the "Save File" command where you can set a custom size, but then I would still have to export the photos and upload them to Google Drive as I do now.

Am I missing something or is "Share Album" pretty basic? Essentially my clients do not need the 6720 x 4480 size photo from my Canon 5D IV. I've been doing event photography for around 3 years now and no one has ever asked for anything higher than the 2048 on the wide edge photos I provide.

Any advice here?

I'm reading up on LR CC and Classic and it's looking more and more like I will have to just use LR Classic with Smart Previews enabled. That way I import into LR Classic and then edit the photos on my iPad using Smart Previews.

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    Known Participant
    November 20, 2018

    I just shared a test album to myself hoping there'd be an option when you go to download to choose photo size but no...

    ugh! This would be so perfect if it let you set the photo size when sharing an album. Maybe I'm still missing something? Any help?

    I feel like I'm thiiiis close to being able to use CC exclusively but it's looking like I'll have to do the Classic with Smart Preview workflow.

    selondon
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    Community Expert
    November 20, 2018

    Maybe put in a feature request here: Lightroom CC for Web | Photoshop Family Customer Community

    (if there isn’t one already).

    Ironically, lower res downloads were the only option previously.

    Known Participant
    November 20, 2018

    hmmm ok thanks. Maybe I just start sending clients the full resolution files? They are about 4 MB larger per photo but might be smoother process and then I never have to worry about someone requesting a higher resolution file (has happened once or twice). This wouldn't count against my Adobe cloud storage at all, right? The only thing counting against that would be the original RAW files I upload.

    I just edited all the photos from an event over my lunch and it was SO nice on the iPad.