In this episode of The Complete Picture, (Exporting Images from Lightroom 4), Julieanne demonstrates the advantage of setting up presets in Lightroom to simultaneously export images to multiple file types, sizes, compression settings etc. You might find even find this method more powerful than Photoshop’s Image Processor!
• When exporting files, in the Metadata section, you can choose to Remove Location Information. Note: this option is only available when choosing either “All” or “All Except Camera and Camera Raw Information” as it doesn’t make sense with the other options.
• It is now possible to export images directly to Adobe Revel to be used on your mobile phone or tablet device. Use the “Export To” pull-down menu at the top of the Export dialog.
• Export to DVD is now available on 64-bit Windows machines.
• Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + R will Reload web gallery.
• Command + Option (Mac) / Control + Alt (Win) + P will Preview in browser.
• Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + J will Export the Web Gallery.
In Lightroom you can mark a keyword so that it doesn’t export by double clicking on the keyword in the Keyword panel and unchecking Include on Export. This may come in handy when using hierarchical keywords. For example, you might have France, Germany and Italy all under the parent keyword “Countries” to make them easy to find. However you don’t necessarily want the “Countries” keyword to be exported.
At this point some of you might be thinking of adding a “nickname” for your client – perhaps something that you wouldn’t want them to see. If you want my advice – don’t do it. Seriously, accidents happen.
In this episode of the Complete Picture (Opening Files from Lightroom into Photoshop), I hope to help you avoid unwanted or puzzling results by answering the three most frequently asked questions around opening and round-tripping files from Lightroom to Photoshop.
• Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + Shift + H show/hides guides.
• Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + J exports a PDF Slideshow.
• Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + Shift + J exports a sequence of JPEG files.
• Command + Option (Mac) / Control + Alt (Win) + J exports a Video Slideshow.
Note: Holding down the Option (Mac) / Alt (Win) also toggles the Export PDF button (in the lower left) to Export JPEG.
Every image stores various amounts of metadata. For example, there is EXIF metadata, which describes the camera and lens that captured the image, as well as f-stop, shutter speed and a plethora of additional information about how the image was captured. In addition, images can also contain custom metadata information (such as that defined by IPTC) including the copyright, contact information, rights usage and so on.
Typically photographers want this metadata to travel with their files, but every once in a while I am asked how to remove the extraneous metadata when exporting a file to be delivered to a client. To remove all metadata in an image (including camera settings, ratings, develop setting, etc.) except the Copyright Notice and Copyright Status upon export, check the box next to “Minimize Embedded Metadata” in the Export dialog.
Note: The develop settings will still be applied to the image on export so the image will look as you intended, but the settings will not be embedded in the file.
If you need to selectively strip metadata from exported images, check out Jeffrey Friedl’s Metadata Wrangler.
And, if you want to see even more metadata than lightroom displays, check out Jeffrey Friedl’s Metadata Viewer.
If you have a .tif or .psd file in Lightroom and want to export the image in order to resize the file (perhaps to give a low res, layered version to an art director) be aware that Lightroom will remove any clipping paths. This can be solved in a variety of ways including using Photoshop’s Image Processor script to resize instead or using actions and droplets as a Post processing step in Lightroom. For more information on using Photoshop Actions with Lightroom click here…
To Export files from Lightroom and automatically launch Photoshop in order to run Droplets (batch actions), place the droplet in the Export Actions folder:
• Mac (user)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Export Actions
• Win (user)/Application Data/Adobe/Lightroom/Export Actions
Then, in the Export dialog box under the Post Processing section, choose Post Processing > After Export > (name of droplet). For more information on using Photoshop Actions with Lightroom click here…
Limit an image’s file size when exporting as JPEG by checking the “Limit File Size To” option in the File Settings section of the Export dialog box. When exporting other file formats, it is also possible to choose to limit the file size to “Megapixels” (under the Resize to Fit option in the Image Sizing section) to limit the file size. Plus, you can check the “Don’t Enlarge” button in order to prevent resizing an image larger.
Under the File Setting section of the Export dialog box, one typically chooses to export their files to .pdf or .tif when taking images into Photoshop, or to .jpg if emailing images or posting to the web. However, there are also times when it’s necessary to export files of different file types while retaining their original format. To do this, select “Original” from the Format drop down list – the raw files will remain raw, the tiffs will remain tiffs etc.
• Command (Mac) / Control (Win) + Shift + E to display the Export dialog box.
• Command + Option (Mac) / Control + Alt (Win) + Shift + E to Export with Previous (settings).
• And, don’t forget, if you save Export presets, you can Control (Mac) / Right Mouse (Win) -click on an image and select the saved preset from the context sensitive menu!
In this Episode of The Complete Picture (Watermarking Images in Lightroom), I will show you how to quickly save your vector and raster logos in Photoshop to be applied to photographs in Lightroom as watermarks in the Slideshow, Print and Web modules as well as Publish Services).
Control (Mac), Right mouse (Win) -click a collection to Export the Collection as a Catalog.
Click here for more information about working with Multiple Catalogs.
In this Video tutorial (Moving Between Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5), Julieanne demonstrates
how to take a single image or multiple images for editing seamlessly between Lightroom and Photoshop. Also, see how to use Photoshop tools like Photomerge, HDR pro, and the export dialog in Lightroom for exporting multiple files.
Note: This tutorial is part of the Lightroom 3 Getting Started Series.
