BEST Lightroom Export Settings for High Res Images

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In this video: Discover th best Lightroom export settings for high res images, print and client delivery. The settings I use (and why!)
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ABOUT THIS VIDEO:
In this video I'm share a full breakdown of my Adobe Lightroom export settings for high res photos including: a quick walkthrough of the export panel, how to rename photos, and the quality settings I use and recommend for high quality photos. I also share different setting options that YOU might consider based on your particular goals. 🙂
There's a lot of varying opinions on this topic, so in this video I don't just share how to export - but also why I use the quality settings I do along with examples and compression tests for any techy types that want to geek out on the finer details of what happens when we export our photos from RAW to Jpg. 😘
My goal is that whether you use my export settings (or one of the variations I share as a hard-drive space friendly option), that you can confidently dial in this piece of your editing workflow!
0:00 About this video
0:39 Foundational tips
1:21 Exporting in Lightroom
1:38 Export Location
2:08 File Naming
2:50 File Settings & Image Quality
5:00 Quality Export Test
6:32 Drawbacks of Compression
8:49 Compression Test
12:47 Image Sizing
12:56 Output Sharpening
13:28 Metadata
13:31 Watermarking

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@ChelseaNicole 2 жыл бұрын

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

@RLXRari 8 ай бұрын

What are your settings for social media?

@mathewshoyt1763 7 ай бұрын

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

@jeffbarbierofrunfar4825 8 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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

@moidutoiphotography8427 2 жыл бұрын

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

@debbiesavage838 2 жыл бұрын

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

@LORY0021 Ай бұрын

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

@votivestudios Жыл бұрын

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

@c.r.blankenship9040 9 ай бұрын

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.

@julianmoralesphotos 2 жыл бұрын

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

@user-qj3pt7dc9g 14 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing your knowledge! It helped a lot!

@sarac1512 Жыл бұрын

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 😂

@bychristineharris6485 Жыл бұрын

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.

@forresthogue3532 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the info! Very helpful

@ladymc2021 Жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@dllpa Жыл бұрын

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

@marlie41 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ChelseaNicole 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Marlie! Glad you found it helpful 💗

@camillevoucat2139 Ай бұрын

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!

@Gerald_G 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, Chelsea! Such a practical, helpful video!

@hydrangeaflower118 Жыл бұрын

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 :)

@Yolipink72 Жыл бұрын

Super helpful and to the point!

@maharlikamirasol Жыл бұрын

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

@suzetteanthony5181 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. This video was very helpful

@florin.filipescu 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@kate4bama 9 ай бұрын

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!

@lyssmiller 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ChelseaNicole 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ReCunhas Жыл бұрын

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

@jimwlouavl 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ChelseaNicole 2 жыл бұрын

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 Жыл бұрын

Me too! So good!

@SteveStrotherMarketingPhotogra Жыл бұрын

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

@vernondekoker8797 2 жыл бұрын

I would like to see how you export for social media

@RodriJSR Жыл бұрын

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

@kenn6592 Жыл бұрын

Very informative video. Thank you!

@juanm.lomeliphotography7799 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much amazing information

@andymartin3962 2 жыл бұрын

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

@lizle9322 2 жыл бұрын

This gives me so much insight! Another great video!

@ChelseaNicole 2 жыл бұрын

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

@evaan6560 2 жыл бұрын

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

@cindyteichert5968 9 ай бұрын

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

@zeraykibreab3542 6 ай бұрын

thanks Great video

@Northmaori Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@rodrigogregoriodelasheras5246 Жыл бұрын

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

@nathanjeans Жыл бұрын

I would love a follow up to this for other formats and web uses. This information was an incredible help, would you be open to adding to it? Thanks!

@prashantpawar8969 8 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation

@howardhack655 Жыл бұрын

Great information that I will use

@kaseelee4028 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video

@justinegable8188 2 жыл бұрын

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

@christophercolacurci8573 Жыл бұрын

Great explanation!

@reneeeasterling9932 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much ❤

@xavierchanut6835 Жыл бұрын

Merci Chelsea. Straight to the point 👍

@shotbyb3 Жыл бұрын

very well edited video.

@joyceneidich1566 7 ай бұрын

Very informative! Thank you!

@Kellytrades2 Жыл бұрын

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

@ChelseaNicole Жыл бұрын

Great to hear it helped!

@tylerfields2368 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@kelseymatarese Жыл бұрын

I really like your videos!

@santiagogonzalez3060 8 ай бұрын

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

@prakashwadhwani 2 жыл бұрын

AwesomEEE explanation ... Lucid, yet detailed :)

@ChelseaNicole 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Prakash! So happy you found it helpful :)

@karnithaf3409 2 жыл бұрын

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

@abernard1234567 4 ай бұрын

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

@kevindickinson1541 Жыл бұрын

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.

@nit0017 11 ай бұрын

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

@Julia-es5wy Жыл бұрын

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

@scottsater 9 ай бұрын

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

@ChelseaNicole 9 ай бұрын

I’m so happy to hear that Scott!! 🙂🎉

@tiffanybecker244 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, please do a video for social media exports!

@jennifershaevitz2858 3 ай бұрын

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?

@edwardbearlighthouse 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

💯💯💯❤

@zaporgal 8 ай бұрын

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

@P3photo 2 ай бұрын

The quality info was very valuable

@janiceirene5118 3 ай бұрын

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

@ChelseaNicole 3 ай бұрын

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

@Smoothnf 11 ай бұрын

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?

@anthonyshearin4603 Жыл бұрын

Best video I have seen on this topic!!

@ChelseaNicole Жыл бұрын

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

@SurferWin Жыл бұрын

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

@lilianyelamo9879 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

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. :)

@kerripresslee6097 7 ай бұрын

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 5 ай бұрын

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. 🙂

@alihesham7152 3 ай бұрын

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

@Zabarotropitili 7 ай бұрын

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.

@ModMonk3y Жыл бұрын

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

@ChelseaNicole Жыл бұрын

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

@francisdominicbermas2648 3 ай бұрын

you're great.

@PhotographerK 8 ай бұрын

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

@GretchenWillis1 Жыл бұрын

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!