How to Export Images in Lightroom

Video Transcript

"BRANDON SARKIS: My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to use Adobe's Lightroom software. Now, we're going to be discussing our "Export" options. So we're going to go over here and click on the "Export" button. And we'll see, we have a couple here. We have some preset exports. This is actually on "Custom" 'cause I have it set in a certain way but you can have it export to burn full-sized jpegs. Export to DNG. Export for e-mail. These are some of the presets. I've got it set for "Custom" right now. You can go in through here. For your destination folder, you can choose a folder, or you can choose a flash drive. You can choose a burnable DVD folder, or CD folder. You could choose subfolders. And it will actually create those for you inside wherever you choose. Or you can just click here and tell it to go wherever you want it to go. You could even click another network computer if you want it. For the template, filename, custom names, file numbers, sequence, this is basically whatever you want. You can edit this and make it your own too. So you can completely customize how you want that done. Format, you can do .jpeg, .pst, tiff, DNG, or the original. The original being whatever the real photo actually is. Those are all pretty much standard formats that it supports. And your quality has a little slider that goes from 0 to 100. I keep mine in 100. Below this, you're going to see your "Colors Base" options, Adobe RGB, sRGB and ProPhoto. You can also constrain your maximum size by pixels, inches, or centimeters. So if you want to make the photo, keep it within a certain size if you're exporting it for a web site, or for--even for printing. Like here, I can make this 5 by 7, oops. Give a click over here. There you go, 5 by 7. You can change your resolution by pixels per inch, or pixels per centimeter. Or you can add your copyright watermark, which you should always do. You can also minimize your embedded metadata, and you can have the right keywords as the Lightroom hierarchy. This, basically, will keep all of your Lightroom tags packed in with your photo. So this is a good way to export it and keep all your data that you had added to it. So that way if you import it into something else, it will pick up all that and keep your keywords and all that fun stuff. Basically here, this kinda happens when you're all done with everything. You're just going to go over to your-well, actually, you have "Direct Export." You can have a "do not" thing, or erase your card, or burn 'em to a disk, or whatever you want. Turn the computer off if you'd like. And then, when you're done here, you just hit "Export" and you're off. And it will do exactly what you have it set up to do. I'm going to hit "Cancel" though 'cause I don't need to export anything right now."