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Building Smart Previews in Lightroom

Building Smart Previews in Lightroom

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Building Smart Previews in Lightroom

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- If you're a Lightroom user, you should already be familiar with Smart Previews. You see a checkbox to build Smart Previews every time you import an image. You can have Lightroom build you Smart Previews for all your images and if you do, you get a number of advantages. As we saw on a previous practicing photographer, with the flip of a certain preference in Lightroom, the presence of Smart Previews can make Lightroom go a little bit faster. It can get large images to the screen faster than it can if it has to kind of churn away without a Smart Preview. Smart Previews are also necessary if you use Lightroom mobile in concert with the desktop version of Lightroom. Smart Previews are how Lightroom moves images to your mobile device. They are small. They pack a tremendous amount of power because with Smart Previews you can perform the same types of edits you would make to a raw file. And that means they're also really…

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