{"id":12547,"date":"2015-09-28T06:21:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T06:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/?p=12547"},"modified":"2016-11-10T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T07:24:07","slug":"lightroom-tutorial-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/lightroom-tutorial-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips and Tricks: Lightroom Tutorial for Photographers Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Lightroom is a brilliant tool for photographers, and helps us easily and quickly get our photos from the camera and out of the door to our clients. As an <a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\">Indian Wedding Photographer<\/a>, I use Lightroom for almost all my post production now. This post is in continuation to my previous post, <a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wedding-photography-production-lightroom-1\/\">Lightroom for Wedding Photographers<\/a>. If you haven&#8217;t already, you should read that first before this one! <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Welcome to the tips and tricks of Lightroom post production.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In this post we will go through little gems and features hidden within Lightroom that will help you create a strong and efficient workflow. (Workflow: something that you do again, and again (and again) so that you do it by rote. This includes everything after you take the photo &#8211; so all the steps that you follow right from how you eject memory cards to how you output photos once you&#8217;re done with them!). Let&#8217;s go through some tips and tricks while building your workflow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 21px; line-height: 32px; color: #993300;\"><b><i>a. What&#8217;s the best way to import photos to Lightroom?\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After opening your Lightroom catalogue, click on the \u2018import\u2019 button (or SHIT+COMMAND+I) on the left hand side of the screen at the bottom and select the images you want to import in the catalogue.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<dl id=\"attachment_12550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 972px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1.Import-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12550 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1.Import-1-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1.Import-1-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1.Import-1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1.Import-1-600x335.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1.Import-1.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Selection of photos is not just the only part to be achieved here but also various settings that you should apply to the lot of images. This helps you to work on offline images, add metadata, and individuality to your images.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.-Import-Settings-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12552 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.-Import-Settings-2-1024x568.jpg\" alt=\"2. Import Settings-2\" width=\"962\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.-Import-Settings-2-1024x568.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.-Import-Settings-2-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.-Import-Settings-2-600x333.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2.-Import-Settings-2.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Lets take a look at the settings that one should know and also must apply to their images for better management of the Lightroom catalogue.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><b>File Handling:<\/b><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Build smart previews&#8221;<\/em> <\/strong>basically helps you to work on offline images and sync in all the develop settings to those images. This means that you don&#8217;t have to store those heavy images on your local hard disk (or worse, on your external hard disk) while working with them. Hello speed!\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t import suspected duplicates&#8221;<\/em> <\/strong>helps you to \u2018not import\u2019 such photos which are repetitive in you folder you are importing, but personally i do not recommend enabling this (on the off chance that the computer screws up, you don&#8217;t want to NOT import photos you&#8217;ve taken).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Add to collection&#8221;<\/strong> <\/em>helps you to add the images directly in any of your collections at the time of the import.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><b>Apply During Import:<\/b><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8216;<em><strong>Develop Settings&#8217;<\/strong> <\/em>gives you the ability to apply various presets on you images (for e.g.,- B&amp;W or cyanotype). I personally don&#8217;t use this because I want to manually develop each of my photos and not apply a blanket develop setting to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8216;<em><strong>Metadata&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>helps you add extra metadata to your images in addition to what your camera applied\u00a0(like the\u00a0ability to tag your name and copyright information to the lot of images you are importing and also makes it searchable).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>&#8216;Keywords&#8217;<\/strong><\/em>,it the last setting you can apply to your images and it helps you to give individual tags (keywords) to particular lot of images while importing. (for example- you can add keywords like \u2018Wedding\u2019, \u2018Couple\u2019 \u2018Love\u2019, \u2018Marriage\u2019, to the wedding photography images).\u00a0This may not seem like a big deal at first, but when you have tens of thousands of images in your catalogue (like me), it&#8217;ll help!\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><b>b. What&#8217;s the best way to select and curate photos?\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When Lightroom was first introduced, it was touted as a combination of Adobe Bridge and Adobe Photoshop. If this doesn&#8217;t make sense to you, in the pre-Lightroom era, we photographers didn&#8217;t have a way of selecting images. When digital first came about, photographers didn&#8217;t take thousands of photos and selecting photos was a Light Table approach. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Today, from a wedding shoot we usually rack up thousands of photos &#8211; and selection of the images is a HUGE time consuming job. (Wedding photographers, you know what I mean.) Selecting photos is a very important step. You don&#8217;t want to miss photos because your photo selection workflow wasn&#8217;t efficient. Here&#8217;s how I go about it &#8211; but first, let&#8217;s understand the tools available to us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><i>Labels<\/i>:<\/b> Lightroom gives us another option to rate our images with coloured labels. You can assign what these colours mean to your photos depending on your workflow. You can remove any label by pressing the same number that designates the colour.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Keyboard Shortcut\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Set Label to Red: 6<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Set Label to Yellow: 7<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Set Label to Green: 8<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Set Label to Blue: 9<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Set Label to Purple: Right Click with Mouse, Select Colour Label, Purple<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Stars:<\/b> We can also assign 1-5 star ratings to our images. This feature can be extremely helpful, especially when you want select images during the shoot without having to delete images. If you ever want to remove the stars from an image you can select the image and press \u201c0\u201d (zero).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b> Keyboard\u00a0Shortcuts<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">1 Star Rating: 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">2 Star Rating: 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">3 Star Rating: 3<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">4 Star Rating: 4<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">5 Star Rating: 5<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">0 Star Rating: 0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Flags: <\/b>When you want to pick an image you can press \u201cP\u201d on the keyboard to flag that image as a pick, and if you want to remove the flag you simply press \u201cU\u201d. When you want to reject an image you press \u201cX\u201d, and when you view your images in the grid or loop view the rejected images are greyed out. This makes it easy to visually identify which images are flagged as rejects.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b> Keyboard Controls<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Flag as Pick: \u2018P\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Remove Flag: \u2018U\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Set as Rejected: \u2018X\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4.-Labels-Stars-Flags-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12554 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4.-Labels-Stars-Flags-4-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"4. Labels, Stars, Flags-4\" width=\"962\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4.-Labels-Stars-Flags-4-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4.-Labels-Stars-Flags-4-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4.-Labels-Stars-Flags-4-600x334.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/4.-Labels-Stars-Flags-4.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">These tools are actually very helpful in keeping your images selected the way you want, moreover working on bulk images at one go can sometimes become very tiresome, so this is where all the selection tools helps in selecting and organising the images the way we want and work on them in an efficient manner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">How do I this?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Like everything in Adobe, it&#8217;s really up to you how to use it. This is what I do:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>First Pass:<\/strong> When I&#8217;m first looking at the photos, I make a first pass and very quickly as I&#8217;m going through them use labels to choose my &#8220;oh, this is good&#8221; and &#8220;hmm, I&#8217;ll use this as a backup\u00a0of this moment&#8221; \u00a0using the RED and YELLOW labels. I use the other colours to set apart certain images of interest that I may want to keep aside (fun photos, behind-the-scenes photos etc.) Later on, if I filter by RED I know that these are my MUST HAVE images.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Second Pass:<\/strong> I start editing all my RED photos after I&#8217;ve done my initial shortlist. The ones I develop and like (and want to keep), I&#8217;ll assign a PICK flag to (Keyboard P).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Curation:<\/strong> From every shoot, we all know that of all the deliverable photos, we may want to choose a couple that are portfolio worthy, or images that you want to highlight to the client. This is where I use the stars. I&#8217;ll filter by &#8220;flagged&#8221;, which will show me all the images that I&#8217;ve decided to deliver and assign either 4 or 5 stars to the ones I deem outstanding.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">How does this help? Of the ten thousand photos I may have taken at a wedding, a RED filter will bring it down to the number of images I think are usable &#8211; a FLAG filter on top of that will show me the images I&#8217;ve developed and have decided to deliver &#8211; and a STAR filter on top of that will show me the outstanding ones!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i><\/i><\/b><em><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">c. Some very important points to keep in mind while\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 21px; line-height: 32px;\">developing<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">\u00a0your images in Lightroom:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Since we\u2019ve already discussed how to edit images in \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wedding-photography-production-lightroom-1\/\">Lightroom for wedding photographers &#8211; tutorial 1<\/a>\u2019, in this section i have just main pointers to keep in mind to have\u00a0a better workflow.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><i>Lightroom Catalogue Management:<\/i><\/b> One point of debate among Lightroom users is how to allocate images to catalogs. Some prefer keeping a number of small catalogs, while others prefer keeping a master catalog with all images stored within it. In earlier days, people did maintain various catalogues with less images, however,\u00a0 Lightroom has continued to grow and improve in performance &#8211; so much so that huge catalogs (even those with over 100,000 images!) are hardly a concern performance-wise. (Use the &#8220;optimise catalogue&#8221; option to fix it if you feel it&#8217;s slow).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><i>Where should be the source files (RAW) of a catalogue?<\/i><\/b>: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to me, i always prefer having my source files in an external hard drive (the biggest reason is it gives you extra space on your workstation, which is always good for better speed). Never store your photos locally. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><i>Where should the Lightroom Catalogue (.lrcat) file be?<\/i><\/b>: I always prefer having all my catalogues in my main work station, and always keep updating the backup of those LR catalogues in my external hard drives for being safe in case of the loss of data. Always backup these catalogue files!\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><i>My Lightroom has become really slow, what to do?: <\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0<\/i><i> <\/i>Yes, i agree, one may face this issue of their Lightroom working a little slow sometimes, but there are few key things you should keep in mind to optimise you Lightroom Catalogues.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Open Lightroom, go to file on the top, and select \u2018Optimise Catalogue\u2026\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">At the time of import always make sure that you build normal previews \/ smart previews to fasten your workflow.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5.-Optimise-Catalogue-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12556 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5.-Optimise-Catalogue-5-820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"5. Optimise Catalogue-5\" width=\"820\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5.-Optimise-Catalogue-5-820x1024.jpg 820w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5.-Optimise-Catalogue-5-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5.-Optimise-Catalogue-5-600x749.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/5.-Optimise-Catalogue-5.jpg 881w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b><i>I have a lot of images to post process, how do i process all of them in less time?\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Using Lightroom means you should be able to use all the options that are available to you, which is you should be able to bulk process your images and not waste time doing same thing for every image.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">For Lightroom users, making use of develop presets can be an excellent way to reduce the amount of time that you spend in Lightroom. When it comes to presets you can either create your own or use those created by Lightroom. One of the great things about Lightroom Presets is that you can easily tweak the settings to suit a particular photo.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Keep creating different presets for similar kind of images, so that it helps you to bulk process you images.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6.-Presets-1-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12557 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6.-Presets-1-6-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"6. Presets 1-6\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6.-Presets-1-6-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6.-Presets-1-6-617x1024.jpg 617w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6.-Presets-1-6-600x995.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/6.-Presets-1-6.jpg 663w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 181px) 100vw, 181px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.-Brush-Presets-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12558\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.-Brush-Presets-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"7. Brush Presets-1\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.-Brush-Presets-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.-Brush-Presets-1-694x1024.jpg 694w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.-Brush-Presets-1-600x885.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.-Brush-Presets-1.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.1-Brush-Presets-2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12559\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.1-Brush-Presets-2-2-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"7.1 Brush Presets 2-2\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.1-Brush-Presets-2-2-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.1-Brush-Presets-2-2-856x1024.jpg 856w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.1-Brush-Presets-2-2-600x718.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/7.1-Brush-Presets-2-2.jpg 919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; color: #993300;\"><strong>d. What&#8217;s the best way to export\u00a0photos?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In Lightroom, you do not &#8220;save&#8221; photos in the traditional sense. Instead, you <i>export<\/i> photos. You can export photos in various file formats suitable for a wide range of uses. For e.g., high resolution images for printing, medium resolution images for online usage, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Select Photos to Export: Select photos from the post processed images you want to export<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/8.-Select-images-to-export-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12560 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/8.-Select-images-to-export-8-1024x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/8.-Select-images-to-export-8-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/8.-Select-images-to-export-8-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/8.-Select-images-to-export-8-600x334.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/8.-Select-images-to-export-8.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Open the Export dialogue box: Choose File\u00a0&gt; Export or click the Export button in the Library module. Then, choose Export To\u00a0&gt; Hard Drive in the pop-up menu at the top of the Export dialog box.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/9.-Select-Export-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12561 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/9.-Select-Export-9-973x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/9.-Select-Export-9-973x1024.jpg 973w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/9.-Select-Export-9-285x300.jpg 285w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/9.-Select-Export-9-600x632.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/9.-Select-Export-9.jpg 1045w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Specify Export Options: Specify a destination folder, name of the files to be exported, and other various options in the Export dialog box panels (e.g., &#8211; Image Sizing,\u00a0\u00a0Watermarking, etc<\/span>)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10.-Export-Settings-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12562 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10.-Export-Settings-10-1024x940.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10.-Export-Settings-10-1024x940.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10.-Export-Settings-10-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10.-Export-Settings-10-600x551.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10.-Export-Settings-10.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Save the export settings: You can also create export presets, so that in future you don\u2019t have to change all the settings all again for the same purpose.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12-Export-Preset-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12564 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12-Export-Preset-1-1024x936.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12-Export-Preset-1-1024x936.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12-Export-Preset-1-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12-Export-Preset-1-600x549.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12-Export-Preset-1.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Click Export.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12.-Press-Export-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12563 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/arjunkarthaphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12.-Press-Export-11-1024x936.jpg\" alt=\"12. 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