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Export PNG in Lightroom

Community Beginner ,
May 26, 2021 May 26, 2021

Hi everyone!

 

I have a problem that Lightroom is not exporting PNG's with transparency on some files. My process is usually this, if it might help: I import the RAW files, edit them, then send them trough Lightroom to edit them in Photoshop, making a transparent background. Then I rename the files and and export them in PNG's of 3 different resolutions (low medium and high). The files come out with a white background instead of transparent and I don't know why, it only happens in certain files...

 

The work around I'm doing is exporting the PNG trough Photoshop, importing those PNG to Lightroom to batch export the other medium and low resolutions.

 

Does anyone knows whi this is happening? 

Thank you in advance!

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Community Expert , May 30, 2021 May 30, 2021

Lightroom-Classic will display PNG files in the library, but it cannot Export files while maintaining transparency! So do not try!

LrC does not 'understand' transparency!

So you must use Photoshop to create PNG files of different sizes as suggested by @Theresa J 

 

 

 

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Community Expert ,
May 29, 2021 May 29, 2021

I would use the Export As function in Photoshop.  Export as has the ability to export at mulitple sizes with one export. You can export transparent png images this way. Here is more information. 

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/export-artboards-layers.html

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Community Beginner ,
May 31, 2021 May 31, 2021

Thank you! I will try this.

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Community Expert ,
May 30, 2021 May 30, 2021

Lightroom-Classic will display PNG files in the library, but it cannot Export files while maintaining transparency! So do not try!

LrC does not 'understand' transparency!

So you must use Photoshop to create PNG files of different sizes as suggested by @Theresa J 

 

 

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 14.5.1, Photoshop 26.10, ACR 17.5, Lightroom 8.5, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 15.1.1 .
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Community Beginner ,
May 31, 2021 May 31, 2021

Thank tou Wobert,

 

I will do this method.

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 18, 2025 Aug 18, 2025
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Adobe needs to fix this ASAP!

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