Lightroom Desktop: Additional options needed when exporting

Can we please have export as tiff?Please?
Thanks

Exporting as tiff would be everything I would need as well, but at least with customizable bit depth. 16bit would be nice.

Ok, guys...6 month and no changes to the exporting feature. I cancel my subscription and go to Luminar. Sorry Adobe, but you clearly do not see what a fast upgrade cycle is. The last changes made to Lightroom CC have been marginal and only to do with your auto filters...get the basics right before being fancy.

I`m using LR CC as a professional. I wanted to uprgad to the 1TB plan. But then i realized I can ́t choose DPI and Color Range? Please put a serious export on the very top of your todo list!!

I can't believe that this FR has only 35 votes. There are so less LRCC users out there? Or are they happy with the limited options here? I do not understand why Adobe did not implement such a basic feature.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Add Export Options!!!.

I'm currently testing Lightroom CC on iOS and staggered about the non-existing export options. I really like the possibilities for the basic editing. But I don't understand that I can't define the export details like format/compression (JPG, TIFF, ...), ICC-Profile or dimensions of the photo. Please add these very basic options in the near future to keep up with your claim to be the best mobile editing app ...

Absolutely crazy that this has not been solved, finally decided to give lightroom cc mobile a go, upgraded to the 1tb plan, imported 2000 photos, spent hours editing a selection, now I wish to make further edits in affinity for example, but there is no point in making any further edits to a lossy jpeg! Wished I had done further research into the export options before investing a lot of time and money into this! Will need to look for an alternative solution, maybe scrap adobe all together, and stick to capture one on desktop too.

Export limitations are a bad Thing for all platforms. It limits the users in their workflow and does not allow further editing without loosing Qualität. Sure, a high quality jpeg ist not bad at all but there are many use cases you need loosless exports like tif or psd. I am sure this would be very easy to implement because these formats are state of the art and maybe just export parameters.

Additionally, if you want to print photos, you may need a quality that is somewhere betweend the two offered options. You may not believe it, but in many regions upload speed is still limited. However, let the user define the compression rate and size of the picture would and should also not be a big thing. I am sure you use existing libraries for that and they all allow to export with parameters (type, compression, size, etc). So how long would it take to implement and test? 1 day? Maybe 2

I picked up on this thread linked to another relating to CC mobile. I use IOS, so I cannot comment on Android.


Firstly I wanted to say how happy I am to finally be able to export or share all images instead of the limited 15 at a time we had before, thank you adobe.


I noticed many still frustrated by the two available quality export options, high quality and 2048px quality. I cannot offer a bit depth or file type change solution for export, but I do have a way of changing pixel values on export to whatever I want below that of the original image pixel value.


I use the workflow app and have designed an extension which pops up after rendering (same place it asks you for a location). Before you share your files, set the pixel width or length in workflow, then when you choose the workflow extension, it will save all your images set to your pixel count.


Lastly, many people are concerned about the 72dpi Lightroom sets on all exported images in cc mobile. If you have a high res camera, which most people have, this really does not make much difference when printing. If you have for example a 6000 x 4000 image, like what my camera generates and Lightroom mobile exports not cropped, but with 72dpi, is the equivalent, once converted to 300 dpi to a 20x13.3 in print, which is bigger then most need. If anyone needs larger then that, just take the image you need printed manually or through the cloud into photoshop and set it correctly. If I printed 6000x4000px image on a 72dpi printer setting, it would give a 83in (length) print. It’s hard to even tell the difference between a 200 dpi and 300 dpi image when printing. If you set a 6000x4000px 72dpi image to print at 200 dpi, you get a 30in (length) print. 72dpi shouldn’t be a concern for most. It’s your pixel value that really matters and with the workflow app, you can set it on export.


Hope this helps

I suspect that your workflow hack simply re-converts the lossy compressed image exported from Lightroom to the format you want. This doesn’t mitigate the lossy compression artifacts and loss of quality at all.

Yes I wrote that it’s only to control the image pixel value, not compression, bit depth or file type. I believe the only way to export an uncompressed file from lightroom mobile is unfortunately one at a time. But I would suspect most people would not need all images exported this way, only one or two, just when required for particular uses. I haven’t been able to determine the bit depth or compression level, but what you can do is select an image, “edit in” then choose a app like Fix, it will open in fix, then save straight back into mobile without editing it and it creates a duplicate PNG file uncompressed. You then just select it and export original, now you have a edited uncompressed image. For example, the image I did the other day when exported high quality jpg was a 12mb image, with this method, the same image PNG was 45mb. Again I don’t know the full specs around what lightroom generates for fix, but far less compression if not any at all. By the way the workflow app also batch renames on export or can both do a batch rename and resize at the same time.

I printed three 8x12in images the other day, one a 16bit uncompressed file, one 8bit lossy from lightroom mobile and one 8bit jpg from classic set to 300dpi, couldn’t tell the difference.

For me batch export was the biggie, any special scenario where I need higher quality, I’d be on my Mac.

Editing in Photoshop Fix on iOS, going back to Lightroom Mobile, then exporting that as PNG is a pretty nice hack indeed, I haven't thought of that! Less than ideal for sure though.

Is this an 8-bit or 16-bit PNG? The crucial thing for me is being able to continue editing in other apps such as Affinity, without lossy compression.

Thanks Victor, I don’t know unfortunately because I’m battling to get info on the image once created, non of the software I own can read the metedata on it. When I loaded it into classic and bridge it seems to give less info then the original RAW and the high quality lossy jpg, I think FIX losses some of the metadata when saving. One thing is for sure, it’s far less compressed. From what I’ve heard PNG is also a decent file type for many applications. Hoping someone with particular skills can give us info on the created PNG.

11 months later, nothing happen with this underpowered feature.
Adobe prioritize in very confusing

I've discover iOS is able to embed copyright in the photo. Seems not ti be able in LR CC 1.5, do I'm wrong or right?

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Export TIFF from Lightroom CC.

I find very annoying that I cannot export photos in TIFF format from Lightroom CC after one year or more it has been released, and I am still paying for it. Am I supposed to use JPEG on other editing software that are part of my workflow? Isn't it time to add export settings? It looks like a bad joke to photographers that prioritize uncompressed format.
Thank you