Prepare Files for Printing at a Photo Lab Using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Export Module. There are two ways to turn your digital image into a printed masterpiece. Option 1: Deliver the file to a professional photo lab and have them print it out for you. Option 2: Do all the hard work yourself and put the image down on paper using your own inkjet photo printer. Both options have advantages and disadvantages. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Print Module makes the second option–inkjet printing on your own equipment easy–for those with the right training but it is not always my preferred method. Having images printed for me at a professional photo lab is often the easiest and most cost-effective way to get my photographs out on paper. Lightroom’s Print Module is great for those who want to feed their own paper into their own printer but often I prefer to hand the hard work off to a professional lab.
It is worth reviewing the whole lab print preparation process before we talk about the specific buttons involved in the Export Dialog. 1. Camera Raw is a starting point. Watermarking Your Photos | Lightroom Killer Tips. Creating Email Ready Images Using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’s Export Dialog. Learning to harness the full potential of the Export Dialog is an important skill for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom users. I use the Export Dialog everyday to create email-ready Jpeg copies of my digital camera Raw files. This powerful Lightroom tool is the most efficient way to prepare email-ready copies of my photos whenever I need to send an image to a client, to a friend, or to Mom. With a single mouse click, the Export Dialog can create a copy of my photograph that is small enough to fit through the email pipeline and that will look good in the recipient’s Inbox! Think of the Export Dialog is if it were a big “Save As” button. For me, mastering this side of Lightroom is crucial because sending Raw files out via email is a disaster.
There is no magic here. I have recorded three video tutorials for today’s lesson on using the Export Dialog to create email-ready Jpeg files. Preparing Files for Email Using the Factory Default Export Preset in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Related Tutorials: Sharpening Workflow. Matt Kloskowksi travels the world teaching people how to integrate their photography and Lightroom. He writes a blog at LightroomKillerTips.com which features tips, tutorials, and weekly content about how to improve your Lightroom workflow. Sharpening is always a hot topic when it comes to working with Lightroom and Photoshop.
We have sharpening sliders in the Detail panel in Lightroom and we also have sharpening controls when it comes to printing and even more sharpening in Photoshop. Which ones are you supposed to use and in what order? That’s what I’ll cover in this week’s video. Author: Matt Kloskowski Matt is the full-time Director of Education for Kelby Media Group and a Tampa-based photographer. JPEG Export Quality Settings. Modern Mosaicslow quality jpeg compression, exaggerated Introduction One of the first things a photographer learns about image formats is that JPEG image compression is “lossy”, meaning that the smaller file produced by greater compression comes at the cost of lower image quality. How much lower — whether low enough to “matter” — depends on the situation.
JPEG compression can be remarkably effective at reducing the size of the image, so despite the lowering costs of storage space and bandwidth, the reduced size is still very appealing: storing essentially the same image in one fifth the file size, for example, means uploading five times faster. The compression setting is usually controlled in camera with a “basic / standard / high” quality setting, each using progressively less compression. Most image-processing applications, though, use a “0-100 quality” or “0% - 100% quality” sliding scale, and Adobe Lightroom is no exception: JPEG Quality Setting in the Lightroom Export Dialog An Example.