Help With Lightroom

I have lightroom 4. When I upload my pictures from my card straight to lightroom and I edit them, they are raw. What program do I use to download them in so they will be jpeg? I have a iMac with iPhoto.

If it is like lightroom 3, you need to go to file and choose export. Exporting from lightroom is how you create a jpg from a RAW file.

Lone-eagle wrote in post #15649828
I have lightroom 4. When I upload my pictures from my card straight to lightroom and I edit them, they are raw. What program do I use to download them in so they will be jpeg? I have a iMac with iPhoto.

Lightroom automatically saves the files from your source when they are "imported". Lightroom uses the term "export" to create and save JPEG files...where most programs use "save" or "save as". It does take a little setting up the first time or 2. When you export you will want to be sure you have selected to save as JPEG.

I am just learning Lightroom 4 also. Adobe has some great videos to help learn Lightroom. You may want to watch the video "Exporting - Saving your photos to JPEG" at the bottom of this page:

http://tv.adobe.com/sh​ow/learn-lightroom-4/

Hope this works for you as I am on a PC not a Mac so others here on the forum may be more helpful.

I guess I didn't explain it right. I want to upload my raw files to lightroom. Edit them and then put them into another program as jpeg and they tell me to stay away from iPhoto which I don't know about. I was just looking for a place to put my pictures after I edit them.
I am on a iMac

One of the nice things about the export function is it allows you to set up presets. For instance, let's say you want to put all your jpegs in a separate folder, rename them, resize them and add your signature. Instead of manually having to perform those actions every time, you can create a preset and batch export them all at once. As said, it's a little change in your workflow, but it's actually quite efficient once you get used to it. Also, if you use Lightroom exclusively as your photo organizer as it's meant to be used, you may find that you don't often need jpegs. The only time I create a jpeg anymore is if I want to share the image or send it somewhere to get printed. And once I've done that, I generally delete the jpeg because I don't need it anymore.

The last comment seems to cover it. I endorse the fact that the export facility is really convenient. You can set up your own requirements to export from LR into the format you need (e.g. To use on an iPad, enter a competition that requires a maximum pixel size or file size etc.) You can choose the destination drive and folder, add or remove metadata and re number the files or put them in a subfolder.

One more thing I have some jpeg pictures in iPhoto on my computer. Can I upload them to lightroom and then delete what's in iPhoto. Thanks for your help.
Dale

Lone-eagle wrote in post #15649950
I guess I didn't explain it right. I want to upload my raw files to lightroom. Edit them and then put them into another program as jpeg and they tell me to stay away from iPhoto which I don't know about. I was just looking for a place to put my pictures after I edit them.
I am on a iMac

Did you get an answer to this first question? With the Lightroom Export function you can "place" the exported jpegs wherever you want, the options are there in the Export dialog.

When I Export I have a couple typical "parent" folders I might use, "Choosing" the parent in the "Export Location" panel at the top of the Export dialog. Then I store the specific shoot in a named Subdirectory. So, a common "parent" folder is "2013 PBase", then I'll name the shoot subdirectory with a date/description name. I can then either upload the jpegs or if I wish open them in an editor to "mess" with them. If I did a lot of editing in another editor I may have a "dedicated" parent folder...your workflow is up to your preference, Lightroom makes it easy to act on those choices.

Lone-eagle wrote in post #15650011
One more thing I have some jpeg pictures in iPhoto on my computer. Can I upload them to lightroom and then delete what's in iPhoto. Thanks for your help.
Dale

I'm not a Mac user so can't give you "directions" about iPhoto. I know that iPhoto has a coupe "options" for how it "stores" photos, you can have them in a "catalog" or have them in your file system where they are available to other programs. Find out how to get them to "show up" in your file system and then you can Import them into Lightroom. To do that you go to your LR Import dialog and in the folder browser (left panel) go to the folder with your shots. When you select the folder the images can show up. You can select "Add" at the top of the main dialog and LR will add the files with the folder without changing things around. But first you have to figure out how to "extract" them from the iPhoto catalog if that's how you are using iPhoto.

As far as how to remove photos from iPhoto, well, someone who has worked with iPhoto will have to answer that!

tonylong wrote in post #15650124
Did you get an answer to this first question? With the Lightroom Export function you can "place" the exported jpegs wherever you want, the options are there in the Export dialog.

When I Export I have a couple typical "parent" folders I might use, "Choosing" the parent in the "Export Location" panel at the top of the Export dialog. Then I store the specific shoot in a named Subdirectory. So, a common "parent" folder is "2013 PBase", then I'll name the shoot subdirectory with a date/description name. I can then either upload the jpegs or if I wish open them in an editor to "mess" with them. If I did a lot of editing in another editor I may have a "dedicated" parent folder...your workflow is up to your preference, Lightroom makes it easy to act on those choices.



I'm not a Mac user so can't give you "directions" about iPhoto. I know that iPhoto has a coupe "options" for how it "stores" photos, you can have them in a "catalog" or have them in your file system where they are available to other programs. Find out how to get them to "show up" in your file system and then you can Import them into Lightroom. To do that you go to your LR Import dialog and in the folder browser (left panel) go to the folder with your shots. When you select the folder the images can show up. You can select "Add" at the top of the main dialog and LR will add the files with the folder without changing things around. But first you have to figure out how to "extract" them from the iPhoto catalog if that's how you are using iPhoto.

As far as how to remove photos from iPhoto, well, someone who has worked with iPhoto will have to answer that!

Thanks tonylong
Dale

Just wanted to point out to Dale:

There is no problem to the way you are doing things if it works for you... but:

One of the really neat things about LR is you don't NEED to export everything to .jpg just for the sake of it. As all your edits are stored in the LR database, you can export "at will" whenever the need arises, and you are not plagued with multiple .jpg copies cluttering your hard drive.

For example, when I upload for the web I export as .jpgs to a folder on my desktop... after I upload those .jpgs to my website I then delete that folder full of .jpgs so they no longer take space on my computer.

Obviously, if you are doing further edits in photoshop, you'd want to keep those edited renders... but you may be better served by exporting directly to photoshop from Lightroom... as when you are done editing it will be added immediately back into your LR catalog... then simply use LR as your organizer.

Again, this may not fit your workflow... but LR is designed to be your RAW editor AND organizer - and the Non-destructive image editing (edits stored in database) is a big part of that.

-edit- Just re-read all the posts, and seems IslandCrow brought up similar points <sorry>

Thanks to all I got it

Lone-eagle wrote in post #15650515
Thanks to all I got it

Well, cool, glad you are picking up on things!

You know, something very cool about this forum, and about Lightroom users:

Lightroom has only been out (officially released) for a bit over 6 years (it just had a "birthday"). That's not a long time as far as major software applications, although LR did "inherit" the Raw processing engine from Photoshop ACR (which is now 10 years old).

Anyway, my point is that in "relative" terms (that is compared to the long line of "standard" photo editors) Lightroom is new, and we all are to some degree "newbies" when it comes to all the features of LR, especially since every major release introduces some significant new features and capabilities -- the Adobe LR team actually works hard to put out "The Latest and Greatest"!

So, everyone here who offers some "Lightroom expertise" was, at some point within the last six years, a "Lightroom newbie"! We all had to learn, sometimes "stumbling and bumbling"...fortunatel​y, we stumbled upon online resources, in the beginnging the Adobe Lightroom Community forum, and then, as things picked up steam, us "newbies" could join into a forum like POTN and offer our "sage advice", even though we ourselves are, and always will be, still in the "growth process".

What I'm leading to is that you, as a Lightroom newbie, are going to pick up "bits" of help and understanding, like via this thread, and hey, in a bit of time you will have enough stuff "under your belt" to where you will be an "Expert" who can help out others!

Pretty cool, eh?