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BillHolland
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August 22, 2025
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Updating JPG image/preview after re-exporting from RAW

  • August 22, 2025
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Setup: I recently migrated my "finished" photo library from LR Classic to cloud. However, my work-in-progress with RAW images is still done with LR Classic. I also keep a copy of all my RAW &.JPGs on my local hard drive(s) in addition to Adobe Cloud.

 

Scenario: Today I made a change to a RAW image, re-exported it to JPG in its original "home" folder on my Mac, and am trying to figure out how it gets updated in LR cloud (both the JPG stored in the cloud as well as the preview). I imported it and deleted the old JPG version, but that seems kludgy. How do I trigger LR to know a JPG's been updated? This doesn't happen too often, but once in a while so I'd like to know.

 

Thanks!
 Bill

 

Beste Antwort von JohanElzenga

I understood your workflow, and my suggestion stands. If you enable sync in your Lightroom Classic catalog, then you can add those images you want to view from elsewhere to a synced collection. Images in a synced collection will be uploaded by Lightroom Classic to the cloud (as smart previews, but for viewing them the 2560 pixels size of a smart preview is normally good enough). The big advantage of this over your current workflow is that these images will remain synced with Lightroom Classic. Any edits you make in Lightroom Classic will automatically appear in the cloud images. In fact, you can now even do the opposite as well. If you notice something (say a crooked horizon) when you look at one of these images in Lightroom mobile on your iPad, then you can straighten the horizon in Lightroom mobile. On return, that correction will sync down to Lightroom Classic. https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/lightroom-mobile-desktop-features.html

 

The only disadvantage is that you will probably have to start again, so delete everything that is currently in the cloud. If you don't want to do this and keep your current workflow, then -as already said- there is no alternative to what you do now: delete an image and reimport the edited version.

 

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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August 22, 2025

You use an illogical setup, that won't work well. Lightroom (cloud) knows nothing about your edits in Lightroom Classic, so you will constantly get this problem. Deleting the image from Lightroom and reimport it will be the only option.

 

Why don't you use a synced Lightroom Classic catalog instead of this, and sync all (or selected) images from Lightroom Classic to the cloud. That will keep edits in sync automatically.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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BillHollandAutor
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August 22, 2025

Hi Johan, I'm a bit confused, but maybe I didn't express my workflow well enough. It's like this:

 

Part 1 - RAW images catalog in LR Classic (use Classic for advanced image manipulation tools)

Image capture > Download > Cull RAW images in PhotoMechanic > Copy RAW images to Selects folder > Import into LR Classic > Process > Export as JPG > (Sometimes) additional manipulation in PS

 

Part II - JPG image catalog in LR cloud

Import JPGs > Add to newly-created album > Add key words, etc. > Deploy for various projects

 

I use the cloud version so I can view images from elsewhere other than my MBP. My original question relates to part 2, where I'm overwriting a JPG with an updated one.

 

I'm not sure how this fits with your suggestion to sync LR Classic (or even how to do the sync beyond using Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox, etc). Can you elaborate a bit please?

JohanElzenga
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August 22, 2025

I understood your workflow, and my suggestion stands. If you enable sync in your Lightroom Classic catalog, then you can add those images you want to view from elsewhere to a synced collection. Images in a synced collection will be uploaded by Lightroom Classic to the cloud (as smart previews, but for viewing them the 2560 pixels size of a smart preview is normally good enough). The big advantage of this over your current workflow is that these images will remain synced with Lightroom Classic. Any edits you make in Lightroom Classic will automatically appear in the cloud images. In fact, you can now even do the opposite as well. If you notice something (say a crooked horizon) when you look at one of these images in Lightroom mobile on your iPad, then you can straighten the horizon in Lightroom mobile. On return, that correction will sync down to Lightroom Classic. https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/lightroom-mobile-desktop-features.html

 

The only disadvantage is that you will probably have to start again, so delete everything that is currently in the cloud. If you don't want to do this and keep your current workflow, then -as already said- there is no alternative to what you do now: delete an image and reimport the edited version.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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