You’ll notice that I skipped over some panels, like File Naming and Metadata. Step Seven: Configure all remaining panels as desired. If so, then you’ll repeat the process of creating the export preset with each watermark. If you are like the person who sent in the question, you may have more than one watermark (like a white and a black version). Step Six: Jump down to the Watermarking panel and choose your watermark preset (refer to the link at the top for the tutorial on the watermark editor if needed). You can read my thoughts on that darn resolution field.

In my example I set the Long Side to 1200 pixels, which is suitable for a lot of web/sharing situations. Step Five: Expand the Image Sizing panel and configure based on your specific output needs. I find that a Quality setting of 85 provides a nice looking file and a much smaller file size than 100. It is safe to assume that JPG is the most likely choice, and in that case sRGB is the safest color space choice. Step Four: Jump down to the File Settings panel and choose your desired file type, color space, and any other setting specific to the chosen file type (like Quality for JPG). Each time you export with your preset you will be prompted to choose a destination for the copies at that time.Ĭhoose whichever option suits your needs the best.

This way you don’t have to hardcode in a destination into your preset. In my example I selected Desktop and then configured the dialog to create a subfolder on the Desktop called Watermarked.Īnother option is to set the Export To drop-down menu to Choose folder later (useful for presets). In this case, click the Export To drop-down menu and choose a specific folder or maybe your desktop. This could make it useful to find those watermarked versions when uploading to a website or adding to an email or whatever your next destination may be for those photos. One option is to select a specific folder that becomes the designated location for all watermarked copies. There are a couple of ways to approach this section. Step Three: Configure the Export Location panel based on where you want the exported copies to be saved. Step Two: Click the Export button to open the Export dialog. You can select as many photos as you want/need, but if you are only going through the steps to create the preset then a single photo will do. Step One: Select at least one photo for export. I’m just going to cover the process of creating Export dialog presets, but you can check out this video from Scott on the watermark editor if you need that aspect too. I got a question this week about how to create export presets in Lightroom Classic for different watermarks, and I thought it would make for a good tutorial.

How to export in lightroom cc 2019