Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step Three:
You also get to choose the physical size of
the images you're emailing (after all, if you
attach enough of them at their full resolu-
tion size, chances are your recipient's email
will bounce them back for being too large).
There are four built-in size presets you can
choose from the bottom-left corner of
the dialog (as shown here), where you can
choose both the size and quality. If you've
created any presets for emailing, those will
appear here, too, or if you want to create
one now, choose Create New Preset at
the bottom of the menu, and it brings up
the Standard Export dialog. Just enter the
settings you want, save it as a preset (click
the + [plus sign] button in the bottom-left
corner of the Export dialog), and now that
preset will appear in your email Preset
pop-up menu.
Step Four:
When you click the Send button, it
launches your mail program, fills in all
the info you entered in the Lightroom
email dialog (address, subject, and so on),
and then it attaches your images at the
size and quality you selected. You have
only one click to go—hit the Send but-
ton in your email program and off it goes.
TIP: Using the Two Email Presets
Adobe has two email presets already
included in Lightroom 4's Export dialog:
one that just brings up the regular email
dialog you just learned about (that one is
called “For Email”), and the other simply
saves your images to your hard drive for
you to email later (manually). To save
the images for emailing later, go under
the File menu, under Export Presets, and
choose For Email (Hard Drive). It asks
which folder you want to save your im-
ages into, you choose one, and then it lit-
erally just saves the images there as JPEGs
at a small size (640x640 pixels at a quality
setting of 50).
