![]() ![]() Refer to the Export Window screenshot included above and follow along. Right now I’ll quickly go through each of the major sections I use. When you go to export, you basically work top-down in the window until you’re happy with the settings. WordPress Headers does similar to the previous one, but with different dimensions suitable to the old theme I used on this blog.These are used in the Twenty Eleven WordPress theme used on the blog today. WordPress 2011 Headers renames the image to header_#.jpg, re-sizes it to 1000×288, and reduces the JPG quality to 70 for speed.Twitter uses a plug-in to re-size and upload the image to.iPhone Wallpapers re-sizes to 960×326, suitable for iPhones.I use this if I want to give the full image to someone. Full Size does a straight export without any resizing or sharpening.Lower JPG quality result in smaller files which download quicker. For Blog re-sizes to 500px wide with a reduced JPG quality for use on this blog.Downloads (w:) exports a 1024px wide image to a location reachable via a private URL for quick/temporary sharing with others.Digital Picture Frame re-sizes and increases compression so the images are suitable for my digital picture frame.Ana’s Picture Frame This one re-sizes photos and increases the JPG compression so they are ideal for a digital photo frame in Ana’s office.Some are used all the time, others only rarely. Click to enlarge and follow along.Īll of these settings can be saved as Presets, which appear on the left of the window underneath User Presets. This brings up the big Export window where you can control every aspect of how the output image is generated. There are many ways to start an Export, this was the simplest to get a screenshot of. One of the ways to start an export is to click the Export… button at the bottom of the left sidebar. Just as when viewing the photos in the software itself, Lightroom takes the original image and applies all of your editing instructions to produce the final one. To get your final, edited photo out of Lightroom for use elsewhere you must first Export. ![]() There’s always the high likelihood that you’ll get better at editing in the future, so you can always redo your old photos easily – think George Lucas □ ![]() If you don’t like the result, you can click the Reset button and the image is back to how you started. Non-destructive editing is liberating because you can try new techniques without fear. If you were to copy the file from the hard drive, it would be the image exactly as it was copied from your memory card.Īside from not being able to just copy the edited photo from your library folder, this is all done completely transparently. ![]() When you view the image in Lightroom, the software simply replays these instructions to reconstruct your final, edited photo. Every single edit you do to the image is saved in the Lightroom database (the catalog) as nothing more than an instruction. Lightroom allows you to edit photos non-destructively, which is a fancy way of saying you are never changing the original image file. It’s common to think I imported them to the My Pictures folder, so I’ll just use Windows Explorer to grab a copy. One of the first hurdles users new to Lightroom run into is how to get to the images they have edited. If you haven’t read them yet, check out How I use Lightroom: Getting Photos In and How I use Lightroom: Taking Out the Trash. This post is part of an ongoing series related to how I use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. ![]()
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