BEST Lightroom Export Settings for High Res Images

[@ChelseaNicole]

What's your preferred quality export setting? Share your thoughts here! 🙂 👇

[@RLXRari]

What are your settings for social media?

[@mathewshoyt1763]

@@RLXRari she prob uses 90 just like everyone else.

[@jeffbarbier]

I've watched many of these types of video specifically referencing export settings for all types of applications and this video is by far the best video on this topic I've ever seen! Not only do you explain what you do and why it matters, you do it in a way that is very in depth, but also to the point and quick at the same time. It's a meat and potatoes video that touches on all the relevant points without long drawn out/long winded comments. Excellent!

[@ChelseaNicole]

Thank you so much for the kind words Jeff! I’m so happy you found it valuable. 🙏🏻🙂

[@julianmoralesphotos]

You have such a pleasant voice to listen to!! Would love ore export videos from your channel!

[@moidutoiphotography8427]

Thorough, concise, well researched, easy to understand information as usual Chelsea. The queen of "no fluff - just good stuff". Thank you xxx

[@c.r.blankenship9040]

OMG this was the best video. So clear, articulate, and easy to follow. I loved the graphics pointing things out as you talk. So good! Thank you.

[@lyssmiller]

I would love to see your export settings for social media! ☺️

[@ChelseaNicole]

I'm may do a part two sharing how I export for social media, website and online features 🤗

[@ReCunhas]

Yes, please! I’m interested too. Thank you!

[@maharlikamirasol]

Learning LR right now after years of working with PS and Apple Photo Library. This vlog is such a big help! Thanks!

[@Julia-es5wy]

Please make an export video for social media and websites, this one was super helpful!

[@camillevoucat2139]

That's great to hear and learn! It's always nice when older content can still be helpful and attract new viewers. Keep up the good work!

[@vernondekoker8797]

I would like to see how you export for social media

[@justinegable8188]

I’d also love a video on social media export settings!

[@bychristineharris6485]

I have tried getting an answer to this question and you finally did it. Thank you! You have covered all the subjects I've needed answers to. Glad I found you.

[@sarac1512]

Thanks Chelsea! It’s my first time I photographed an event with a pro camera and using LightRoom. This was so useful. And I love your energy, I can feel the positive energy coming through the screen 😂

[@kate4bama]

This was the best video I have seen! I have been looking for an explanation of settings and sizing which you fully covered, but you went even farther with the explanation of why! Thank you so much!

[@AlfeolitoTorres]

i love you NICOLE! you just saved my day

[@ChelseaNicole]

So happy it was helpful 🤗

[@jennifershaevitz2858]

Very helpful video, thanks! JI just started using Lightroom Classic (switched from PS Camera Raw) and noticed quite a drop off in color quality from my RAW images within LRC and the exported jpeg images. The colors in LRC are vibrant and those in the jpegs are dull. I used all the recommended settings, but am quite disappointed with the outcome. I took a screen shot of the images, but do not see how to attach them here. Do you have any thoughts/suggestions?

[@tiffanybecker244]

Yes, please do a video for social media exports!

[@LorenzoManera78]

Nice and very technical explanation! Now is more clear the effect of changing quality export settings. Thanks!

[@iantaylor4115]

Excellent video! Thank you for all your time and sharing of your skills and knowledge!

[@abernard1234567]

Super intéressant, rien que de savoir comment fonctionnent la compression c'est très utile, merci !

[@evaan6560]

Great Video! I look forward to the follow up video on exporting for social media too. Or has it come out yet?

[@karnithaf3409]

Great video would love to see a video on how you export for social media.

[@LorieMcCracken-c7h]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge! It helped a lot!

[@zaporgal]

Wondering if you would change anything you said regarding shooting mirrorless where my 100% images are 20MB?

[@cindyteichert5968]

thank you! Nice and simple to understand! YES I would love a video instruction on the online files you mentioned.

[@goldfinch2283]

Great video! Thanks.

[@xavierchanut6835]

Merci Chelsea. Straight to the point 👍

[@kevindickinson1541]

Hi Chelsea. I am not photographing for clients. But something I struggle with is where and what to do with my Final Edits. Its easy to keep them in LR Folders or Collections but most Photographers store them on External Drives. You had a Nas/Raid system. I just have a External Hard Drive. I can't figure out the workflow from LR to External drive . But what is your filing system in those drives and how do you get your images into those file/folders.

[@janiceirene5118]

This was the very best tutorial I've watched. Thank you!

[@ChelseaNicole]

Thanks for the comment. Appreciate you! 🫶 Happy the tutorial helped. :)

[@santiagogonzalez3060]

I really understood the whole explanation however I don’t remember if you mentioned anything about the cropping when you first import the image to Lightroom, if I have a file that I want to print large 16x20 can I crop it tight and still get a good print or will it be pixelated

[@shotbyb3]

very well edited video.

[@debbiesavage838]

I love how you explain everything clearly and getting right to the point! Thank you!

[@hydrangeaflower118]

Thank you! I was having problems with my lightroom and had to uninstall and everything went back to default and i couldn't remember what i had it set as! this was a great help :)

[@joyceneidich1566]

Very informative! Thank you!

[@Kellytrades2]

Thank you!! Your explanation of and showing test results of file size/compression impacts was sooooooooooo helpful!!!!

[@ChelseaNicole]

Great to hear it helped!

[@tylerfields2368]

​@@ChelseaNicolehello! I'm a photographer and I'm developing a website. I have multiple galleries on my site that people when they'll visit, they can view average 12-15 images per section. Available as well will be a print store, where they can select a image or collection of photos for a specific style print and size. Considering the quality of the image is going to be based on what I set it, what should my export settings be for each photo? What I had been doing was setting the resolution for the highest quality example instead of cropping a image to 4:5 (1080x1350) I would export it at say 4000x5000 (it's full 4k resolution) Is that fine? Also should for the output sharpening, should I leave that unchecked? Because if I check it for screen, it wouldn't make sense, because I should set it for glossy or matte paper, but that wouldn't make sense either bc I'm not aware of what type of print and size they'll get.

[@prashantpawar8969]

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation

[@dllpa]

Excellent explanation. I look forward to watching more of your videos!

[@P3photo]

The quality info was very valuable

[@nit0017]

i learnt a lot from this single video .. thank you!

[@SteveStrotherMarketingPhotogra]

Chelsea, Thank you! Great information and awesome presentation! Yes, I would like view a presentation for online exports.

[@kenn6592]

Very informative video. Thank you!

[@RodriJSR]

Thank you, very helpful information. I would love to see a video on how you export for social media

[@Timttay]

What print lab do you use

[@ChelseaNicole]

WHCC 🙂

[@reneeeasterling9932]

Thanks so much ❤

[@juanm.lomeliphotography7799]

Thank you so much amazing information

[@Smoothnf]

So for Low resolution set the ppi at 100 and long edge or short edge to 1080. So the customer can’t print the image. But it will still look good to post on social media?

[@christophercolacurci8573]

Great explanation!

[@rodrigogregoriodelasheras5246]

Thank you for your explaination, I love it. Thank you

[@alihesham7152]

I would love to see your export settings for social media!!! 😢

[@andymartin3962]

Hi Chelsea absolutely super video great advice, yes please for a video for social media export settings!

[@anthonyshearin4603]

Best video I have seen on this topic!!

[@ChelseaNicole]

Thanks Anthony!! I’m so happy you found it helpful! 🙂

[@florin.filipescu]

Love u Chelsea! You motivate me with your videos and I appreciate all the information you are spreading it helped me a lot. Keep this positivity always! Greetings from Romania.

[@scottsater]

This helped SO much! Thank-you :)!!

[@ChelseaNicole]

I’m so happy to hear that Scott!! 🙂🎉

[@kelseymatarese]

I really like your videos!

[@ladymc2021]

This was freaking brilliant! Exactly what I was looking for!! Definitely want more of this info especially for doing digital images on line in many formats!❤🎉

[@ChelseaNicole]

Awesome, thank you!

[@SurferWin]

So...how do we keep the JPEG export under 25MB? I recently upgraded to a Sony A7Rv. I find 100% is huge, and it still is showing as 240DPI

[@marlie41]

Another great informative video. I like your explanation on the drawbacks of lower compression. 👍🏻

[@ChelseaNicole]

Thanks Marlie! Glad you found it helpful 💗

[@suzetteanthony5181]

Thank you. This video was very helpful

[@Gerald_G]

Hey, Chelsea! Such a practical, helpful video!

[@howardhack655]

Great information that I will use

[@lilianyelamo9879]

Hi Chelsea, I'm just starting in the real estate photography, I have been practicing with Lightroom, should I swith to Classic? I don't see the sizing options in my version, thanks~

[@ChelseaNicole]

Hey Lilian! Congrats! :) For LR version: CC is great for mobile use (and Adobe is continually improving it so eventually it will be on par with Classic), but currently it’s missing some features that makes Classic better for professionals. So, yes, that’s what I’d recommend. :)

[@zeraykibreab3542]

thanks Great video

[@daquidecali-react]

Thank you so much

[@forresthogue3532]

Thank you for the info! Very helpful

[@jimwlouavl]

Really helpful and interesting video. I especially appreciated the deep dive into compression and the quality setting.

[@ChelseaNicole]

Thanks Jim!! So glad you appreciated the deep dive! I didn’t know if it would be too techy some, but thought I’d throw it in there for anyone that geeks out on that sort of thing like me. 😘

[@ladymc2021]

Me too! So good!

[@prakashwadhwani]

AwesomEEE explanation ... Lucid, yet detailed :)

[@ChelseaNicole]

Thanks Prakash! So happy you found it helpful :)

[@lizle9322]

This gives me so much insight! Another great video!

[@ChelseaNicole]

Yay! I'm so happy to hear that! Thanks Liz 🙂

[@kaseelee4028]

Awesome video

[@Yolipink72]

Super helpful and to the point!

[@Zabarotropitili]

i installed the latest LR 13.0.xx and i notice the LR changes the size by somewhat 50%. i did no changes in the image size.

[@kerripresslee6097]

Hi Chelsea! This is such a great video with such good different view points. I was wondering if I could ask a question, as a newbie photographer- it seems that the big trend in my area is that instagram is taking the lead on where photos are being uploaded and shared. I've read/watched multiple sources that it is best to save at a lower quality % so instagram doesn't compress it and negatively affect the photo. Do you find this to be true, and does this ever come into play when you are saving photo galleries for clients? (Ie if you KNOW your client is going to be uploading on instagram, would you make the decision not to save at 100%?) Thank you for such a great video and the time you put into it!! :)

[@ChelseaNicole]

Hey Kerri! Thank you, and such a great question! I do plan to make a full video on exporting for social since there’s a lot of interest. But in the meantime, my quick answer to this is that I would still recommend exporting the high-resolution versions at 100% so that your clients have the optimal quality. But I also share web-resolution versions, sized for use on social media. For these, my export is actually larger than IG’s specs because I also keep in mind several places where clients use them- including Facebook banners. This ensures the photos don’t look pixelated on retina displays or certain platforms, which I’ve run into in the past when only prioritizing IG. I find this works to have the images look great across the board when shared. In addition, if you wanted to go further you could extort IG specific versions (exactly to specs). I’ve done this for the vendor team on weddings - especially so I could control how images were being cropped. So, that’s always an option too if you’re wanting even more control. 🙂

[@votivestudios]

This was SO helpful for me from start to finish! Thank you!

[@PhotographerK]

I still see a color change when I export to JPEG/JPG. Is it still the same today?

[@edwardbearlighthouse]

Great video! Regarding the sharpening on Export, I find that the sharpening in LR vs the Sharpening in PS to be very different, with the PS sharpening being far superior. It's almost as if Adobe has dumbed down the sharpening in LR to force me to use PS for sharpening. I have 'heard' over the years that the sharpening on Export (after you have done your sharpening in LR) uses Photoshop's sharpening tool and produces sharper images than you can get in LR (even though you have little control on this particular sharpening settings). I haven't fully tested this, but I do notice a difference in my images that I apply that final Export sharpening to, vs not - especially on the 'sharpen for screen' setting for images that aren't going to be printed. Perhaps you could do a test much like the ones you did here for whether using sharpening on Export actually does make a difference.

[@1BDREAM]

💯💯💯❤

[@ModMonk3y]

im extreamly late to the party but this helped me a lot starting out so thank you O/

[@ChelseaNicole]

Hey, better late than never, right? I'm so happy I was able to help!!

[@GretchenWillis1]

This is a great video! I loved it all, until I got to the point of image sizing. I didn't hear you address the topic of photos that are cropped. You'll have people watching this video who have cameras with sensors as small as 12mp, or even as large as 45mp. Cropping on a 45mp image file may not compromise the image size much, but cropping on a smaller sensor would! Especially if the image will be printed large. I think this is a really important idea to address, that cropping actually cuts pixels off the image. When you select a pre-determined pixel length in the image sizing box, you tell LR to upsize the file if necessary. (of course there's always the option to take files into photoshop instead and resize them larger in there, but I'm sure most people would prefer to get it done in Lightroom). Otherwise a great, informational video!

[@francisdominicbermas2648]

you're great.

[@b991228]

The unavoidable problem with working in raw files is that we take our original image and unconsciously edit the image with the intention of creating a 24 by 16 inch print when in reality of that occurring is incredibly unlikely. The majority of the images will be seen on desktop and mobile devices viewing embedded images on a web pages. In the end the images will be edited by the originator, then edited and resized for the internet to begin processing. The website will finally take the mage and resize and edit it to allow it to be embedded on the web page. In the end our 24x16 masterpiece is then seen by the viewer as a frighteningly mediocre image that is the size of a postage stamp.

[@ark89_]

I tot i saw Quailty! hahaha

[@1298Lewis]

imageees

[@vikingfreakz]

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[@photoman3579]

Lovely teeth !!

[@proștidinromânia1]

Thx!