Exporting photos

If you're wondering where the Save button is in Lightroom, you're in good company.…This seems to be the number one thing that has many Lightroom users…scratching their heads.…The answer is there is no Save button because there is nothing to save.…As I've mentioned, all the adjustments that you make to a photo are…automatically preserved as instructions in a photo's metadata, and the actual…photo remains untouched, no matter what you do here in Lightroom.…So there really is nothing to save from Lightroom, and there is no Save…command or Save button;…however, you can export a photo from Lightroom.…

So let's say that you want to send a photo by email, so it has to be a JPEG.…Or you want to give one to a service bureau to print for you, and they are…asking for a TIFF file.…Or you want to make a copy of a raw file in the JPEG format, so that you can just…keep it in your computer and maybe include it in a PowerPoint or share with a…client or put it online.…In all those cases, the verb to use is export, not save, and to export one or…