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Export and output options in Lightroom

Export and output options in Lightroom - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Introduction to Photography: Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop

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Export and output options in Lightroom

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- Having a nice copy of your image to look at on your own computer is great, but at some point, you're gonna want to send an image out into the world, and Lightroom provides a number of ways to do that. If you want an edited copy of the image to give to someone else, then you'll use Lighroom's export command to render out a new file in the format that you want. Lightroom processes the original image according to your list of edits and creates the new file at the location that you specify. As I mentioned, when you export from Lightroom, you have the choice of several file formats. In general, you'll most likely stick with JPEG, TIFF, or Photoshop. JPEG is the format you use when you need to post something to the web or create an image that's very small in file size. However, saving an image as a JPEG degrades its quality, so you don't want to use JPEG if you don't have to. If you want to give someone a copy of an image while preserving as much quality as possible, then you'll choose…

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