Download albums from Lightroom CC web

Does your subscription include Deaktop Lightroom? (on a Mac or PC)

Your original DNG files will be available on the Desktop App.

If you only have a Apple Store subscription to Mobile only apps, then you can should be able to Export a DNG file in the iPhone. Click the [Share] icon, choose [Export As..], choose the file-type [DNG]. Where to from there I am at a loss 😞 (Sync phone to desktop folder through iTunes?)

That functionality DOES exist, but not obviously, i.e. it's intended to be used by the end-user when viewing an album that has been shared. There are two different "views" available for shared albums:

1. There's the "owner's view", i.e. what you see when you login into your own account at lightroom.adobe.com, where you have full access to all your photos and albums, shared or unshared. When viewing an album in that mode, there isn't a method of downloading all the images in the album (presumably Adobe figured that as the "owner" of the album you would likely use the more capable download/export options available via either of the desktop apps, Classic or Lightroom.....but that's only a guess on my part).

2. Then there's the "shared album view", which is what your clients/family/friends would see when you share an album with them. That view DOES have the option to download all the images in the album in one go (which downloads all images into a zipped folder).

So the trick is to access that "shared album view" if you want to download all the images to your desktop at once. To do that, first you have to share the album and make sure in the settings you enable downloads, then while in the sharing dialog simply click on the URL that has been generated....that opens the "shared album view" in a separate browser window/tab and there you will have access to the all-images download option under the tri-dot menu.

If you want to download only selected images from an album, you could use the "ad-hoc" share capability....basically select the images that you want to download using the select check-boxes and then click on Share from the blue banner. That opens the ad-hoc share dialog where you enter a name and can check the box to "Show in Albums". Once you click on "Save" the new ad-hoc album is opened with the "Share and Invite" dialog box open, there you enable Downloads in the Settings tab, then click on the URL to open that ad-hoc album in the "shared album view" and process the download. Once done, you can delete the ad-hoc album.

Yes it's clunky, though it's actually a lot quicker to do than it took me to type out the instructions.

OK, so this is only allowed in the signed in web version of Lightroom CC and NOT the main Lightroom CC version. Why such a crazily stupid oversight?