SHARING YOUR WORK, PART 2

In the last issue of Outdoor Photographer, I asked an important question: Once we’ve invested in equipment and explored the outdoors in search of inspiring photographs, what’s next for our images? To kick off answering that question, I covered some important fundamentals, including file formats, resolution settings and color spaces.

Here in part two of this four-part article series on sharing your work using Adobe Lightroom Classic, it’s time to jump right into Lightroom’s Export dialogue. I’ll show you how to apply the knowledge from the first article to your chosen settings as you export.

Accessing The Export Dialogue

The first step is to select a set of images for export. You can choose one or many, and there’s no limit to how many you can export. If you have 100,000 images in your catalog, you can export all of them at once. (Be prepared to wait quite a while if you do that.) Once you’ve selected a set of images, your next step is to open the Export dialogue.

As with many things in Lightroom, there are several paths to what you want to do. One way to open the Export dialogue is to look to the lower left corner of Lightroom Classic’s user interface while in the Library module and click on the Export button. You can go to the File menu