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Exporting Your Catalog Shortcut
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Using Export Presets Without
Going to the Export Dialog
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Sharing Your Export Presets
If you've created your own custom
Export presets (or you want to use the
built-in ones, as is), you can skip the
Export dialog by Right-clicking on the
photo, and from the pop-up menu, going
under
Export
, and you'll see both the
built-in and custom Export presets listed.
Choose one from there, and off it goes.
If you've come up with a really useful
Export preset that you'd like to share
with co-workers or friends (by the way,
if you're sharing Export presets with
friends, maybe you need some new
friends), you can do that by pressing
Command-Shift-E (PC: Ctrl-Shift-E)
to bring up the Export dialog. Then,
in the list of presets on the left side,
Right-click on the preset you want to
save as a file, then choose
Export
from
the pop-up menu. When you give this
Export preset to a co-worker, have
them choose
Import
from this same
pop-up menu.
If, instead of just exporting a photo, you
want to export an entire catalog of
photos, press-and-hold the Option (PC:
Alt) key, and the Export button in the
Library module changes into the Export
Catalog button.
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Getting Your Exported
Photos Back Into Lightroom
Automatically
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Using Your Last Export Settings
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My “Testing Panos” Trick
One very cool little Export feature
Adobe added in Lightroom 2 is the
ability to add your exported photos
back into your Lightroom catalog
(so, if you exported some finished
images as JPEGs for a client, you
can have them automatically re-
imported and put with your other
images). To do that, go to the Export
dialog, and in the Export Location
section up top, turn on the checkbox
for Add to This Catalog.
If you want to export some photos
and use the same export settings you
used the last time, you can skip the
whole Export dialog and, instead, just
go under the File menu and choose
Export with Previous
, or use the key-
board shortcut
Command-Option-
Shift-E (PC: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E)
, and it
will immediately export the photos
with your last used settings.
If you shoot multi-photo panoramas,
you know that once they get to Photo-
shop for stitching, it can take…well…
forever (it feels like forever, anyway).
And sometimes you wait all this time,
see your finished pano, and think, “Ah,
that's nothing special.” So, if I shot a pano
I'm not 100% sure is going to be a keeper,
