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Step Three:
When you choose Export as Catalog, it
brings up the Export as Catalog dialog
(shown here), where you type in the name
you want for your exported catalog at the
top, but there are some very important
choices you need to make at the bottom.
By default, it assumes that you want to
include the previews that Lightroom cre-
ated when you imported the photos into
Lightroom, and I always leave this option
turned on (I don't want to wait for them
to render all over again when I import
them into my studio computer). If you turn
on the top Export Selected Photos Only
checkbox, then it will only export photos in
that collection that you had selected before
you chose Export as Catalog. But perhaps
the most important choice is the center
checkbox—Export Negative Files. With this
off, it only exports previews and metadata,
it doesn't really export the actual photos
themselves, so if you do indeed want to
export the actual photos (I always do),
then turn the center checkbox on.
Step Four:
When you click the Export Catalog button,
it exports your catalog (it usually doesn't
take very long, but of course the more
photos in your collection or folder, the
longer it will take), and when it's done
exporting, you'll see the folder on your
computer that you exported (as seen
here). I usually save this file to my desktop,
because the next step is to copy it onto an
external hard drive, so you can move this
folder full of images over to your studio
computer. So, go ahead and copy this
folder onto an external hard drive now.
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