best export settings for sending photos to a client!

I am totally unable to email images images from lightroom classic. Do you know if the recent upgrades in lightroom classic has changed the export process from lightroom classic.

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These settings should stay with your catalog.

Great question and glad you found it helpful! I would just export as the same file name as when you imported the image!

Exports are always copies of the original images in Lightroom. You can always delete the exports from your USB drive once you've done what you are going to do with them. If you ever need them again, just re-export.

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I agree!

JPG compresses the file, so you're losing information, which means you get a lower quality image vs raw.

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That works, it's just relying on Instagram to do the downsizing from 2048px to 1080px. I'd trust Lightroom more than IG to do that properly.

As long as every image you're exporting is the same orientation you can use that. I exported a bunch of 4 x 5 vertical images yesterday using short edge 1080. If you exported a mixture of both landscape and vertical images the landscape images would be the wrong size. (assuming you're still using short edge 1080. vice versa with long edge 1080)

Not according to Instagram support: help.instagram.com/1631821640426723

​@@forestchaput So if i upload a 16:9 photo it'll automatically crop to 1.91:1?

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No sorry, the max horizontal for the Instagram feed is 9:16, so when you upload an 11:14 it will make you crop down to 9 on one end.

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I'm not sure about that actually. I've never been a huge fan of Lightroom Classic plugins.

I guess you can do all your edits according to your print requirements and export as usual. Then go back to the develop module, crop it for Instagram and use the settings he suggested to export and that creates a separate file for Instagram.

The only way to do that is by stretching the image which will make things look distorted. I don't recommend it. In the future, if you have an aspect ratio you need to fit to, shoot your images a bit wider than you need to leave room for cropping.

It shouldn't matter too much! Both of those machines should export very quickly.

@Daniel Farmer I think you may have answered a question I just asked about whether Instagram accepts PNG files.

I thought you don't want them to compress your images so you should do it yourself. I've seen a lot of videos say that if your file size is too large, Instagram will compress it themselves and it might come out weird

@@DylanRotichWhat you’re referring to is compressing the image by resizing it. I still export in the correct dimensions. Jpg VS png is simply referring to the file format (or container). The biggest advantage of PNG over JPG is that the compression is lossless, meaning there is no loss in quality each time it is opened and saved again. (Without going into the full details, it is the way the compression tools read the ‘string’ or ‘code’ in the file’s image data by matching those longer sequences to accompanying short codes already in the data). PNG also handles detailed, high-contrast images well which is what I was originally referring to. So, by converting to JPG first, you’re essentially compressing your image as this process is ‘lossy’. Then, whilst Instagram won’t resize it if you’ve already done so, it still goes through Instagrams compression AI to lower the file size (not the image size) regardless. That is the biggest misconception when people think that Instagram won’t compress a correct size jpg. Simple not true. You can even test it yourself by changing your Insta settings to ‘save a copy’ of the uploaded image (post) to your camera roll. Then, use this saved/downloaded file from Insta, upload it again and repeat the process a couple of times and you watch the image quality become total mush (obviously delete the post each time so you’re not uploading the same image over and over to your feed 🤣). So, in conclusion, a jpg is compressed lossy twice when you upload it to Instagram, whereas a PNG is going in as a lossless file only being compressed once from Instagram when it converts it to jpg. I hope that explains it somewhat.

what’s ur ig? I’m interested in seeing the improved quality when using this method

@@danfarmer_photo I have noticed this on FB. I've seen memes in my memories that I had shared from someone else. If I share it again it's usually degraded a little. I've seen images shared many times to the point that you can barely make out what's in the image. I always thought PNG was for using transparency until someone told me about uploading to social media this way. IG is moving more towards videos and away from pictures. I don't use my IG account to promote my pictures so it's not a major issue with me. A lot of people are going to Twitter to share their images. That's fine if you're building an unknown audience. I mainly share my pictures for friends.

On iOS, I would use Airdrop. If you have Android you could use something like Google Drive or Dropbox.

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It is! But it’s what all screens use so it makes images look correct when viewed on a screen vs. printed out professionally.

I haven't tried doing that, because I like to have full control of how my image is compressed. That being said, I quickly looked it up and some sources say yes you can upload a .png and it will just compress it for you.

Hi Pete! To get them from Lightroom to Instagram, do everything this video says and export them onto your desktop, then you will have to get them somehow onto your mobile device or wherever you post from. I recommend either Google drive or emailing them to yourself and then download them onto that device. Then all you have to do is post! I hope that helps!

You are correct! Sorry about that. Here’s a blog article that I wrote that outlines the process for Lightroom (cloud): blog.rmsp.com/2023/02/07/exporting-for-instagram-with-lightroom-cloud-in-2023/

@@forestchaput Great, thanks! I'll read your blog post tomorrow!

Well. I can safely say that my recommendations are probably different since I took them directly from the Instagram spec sheet (and not just from another creator). Many content creators just copy one another and there is a lot of misinformation out there on the topic.

But now you understand why, not just how!

They’re harder to find since Classic has been around a lot longer.