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adamf30529497
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August 5, 2018
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Problems exporting (sharing) photos

  • August 5, 2018
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Hi -

Started using Lightroom last week to import and edit photos.  Love it for those purposes.  But I'm having trouble when it's time to share the photos.

I snapped a butterfly pic in RAW format (23mb), brought it into Lightroom, had fun editing, then tried to share as a jpg... at which point it compressed to 5mb.  That's barely big enough for Shutterstock to accept a submission from me.

So I tried exporting the butterfly photo in the "Original + Settings" format.  That maintained the file size, and I don't mind the CR2 format because I could open in Preview and save as a JPG, but unless I'm mistaken, I'm truly seeing the original photo.  None of my edits, corrections, crops etc.  Which defeats the purpose of why I bought Lightroom in the first place.

As a secondary test, I imported a 7mb dragonfly photo into Apple's old iPhoto app. Made a few edits and exported it.  The exported file was 5mb.

Then I tried bringing that 7b dragonfly into Lightroom.  After cropping and tweaking, I shared it as a jpg.   It's 1.2 mb!   Shutterstock requires 5mb.

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm sure with all the great features in Lightroom that there must be a way to share the work in a format that's decent quality.

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Correct answer JP Hess

Preview probably isn't reading the XMP file which contains all of the adjustments. A 5 MB JPEG sounds reasonable because JPEG compression depends on the content of the image. It's difficult to estimate what that would be because every image is, of course, unique and will produce different results. Apparently you don't have Photoshop/Camera Raw to compare with.

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Mfanufikile Philani Zuma
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September 20, 2023

Hello Iam having an issue of Sharing my photo s using a link..can someone help please

Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
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September 20, 2023

Start a new forum thread with your question. (You have linked to an old 2018 thread.)

Please include the following in your question:
Adobe product and Version number.
A Screenshot of the sharing options.
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Any Error Message(s)
What workiflow you were using.

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 .
JP Hess
JP HessCorrect answer
Inspiring
August 5, 2018

Preview probably isn't reading the XMP file which contains all of the adjustments. A 5 MB JPEG sounds reasonable because JPEG compression depends on the content of the image. It's difficult to estimate what that would be because every image is, of course, unique and will produce different results. Apparently you don't have Photoshop/Camera Raw to compare with.

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