To specify where on your hard drive the exported copies will be saved, click on the dropdown to the right of Export to: (#1 in the screenshot below.) In the Export Location section you’ll specify where on your hard drive you want to save the exported copies and whether you want these copies to also be available in Lightroom along with the originals. The rest of this article will cover exporting to your hard drive – choose Hard Drive from the dropdown. Note that if your files take up more space than is available on your disc then Lightroom will prompt you to put in one or more subsequent ones.Įxporting directly to email is covered in a separate blog post. The Export Location section that I discuss in the rest of this article then disappears since you won’t need to specify a location on your hard drive for the files.
Select the CD/DVD option from the dropdown to burn directly to disc. Now I’ll start discussing the settings in the Export dialog – in this second article I’ll start with Export Location options.Īt the top of the Export dialog towards the center you’ll see a dropdown to choose whether to export to a hard drive, CD/DVD, or email: In short, you’ll click on the Export button to export a copy of your selected photo(s) pretty much any time you want to share them with the outside world.
In the first article of this series on exporting from Lightroom, I discussed what exporting is, and when you should and shouldn’t export.