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Pauline31247628lkr3
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July 23, 2023
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Downloading quality photos from app

  • July 23, 2023
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I want to do a photo book (professional quality kind) for my partner's birthday. A selection of his best photos from the past almost decade.

All of his most recent (so, his best) photos are accessible to me on the lightroom phone app and I thought I'd be able to just download the ones I want off of it with high quality. But they are definitely not downloading to the best quality for print (some of them are a mere 500ko or around 1 or 2 mo max). I think it's just downloading the preview.

 

Do I need to sneak into his office when he's away and export them off of his desktop app like a spy? Or is there another way? 

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Jim Wilde
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Jim WildeCommunity Expert
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July 23, 2023

It depends on how the images got to the cloud (and from there down to your Lightroom Mobile app). If they have been synced to the cloud from Lightroom Classic, then your guess is correct....they will only exist in the cloud in Smart Preview form (2560px on the long edge), so aren't going to be suitable for high quality exports for a book. If that's the case, you would have to export the images from Lightroom Classic on his desktop.

 

But if he uses the Lightroom desktop app, and not LrClassic, then the images should be in full-resolution in the cloud, and you should be able to export them as high quality from LrMobile on your phone.

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    Pauline31247628lkr3Author
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    July 23, 2023

    Thanks for the quick reply. I just peaked at his screen while he was editing some photos and I saw he uses lightroom classic on his desktop. But at least now I know what I have to do! Thanks !

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