An empty box means the Collection isn’t synced, a lightning bolt icon indicates that it’s synced.

Go to the Collections panel in any module and check the box next to the Collection (see below). If you don’t do it at the import stage, you can do it once you’ve developed your photos and put the best ones into a new Collection. It’s a good idea to get into the habit of syncing Collections. Lightroom Web pulls those Smart Previews from the servers so you can access your photos in a browser, or use them to create an online photo gallery. Now that we have gone over setting up a Export Preset for printing, lets go ahead and do the same thing for web resolution exporting. When you sync a Collection, Lightroom uploads the Smart Previews for the images in that Collection to Adobe’s servers. Smart Previews are a fraction of the size of Raw files (as little as 2%).Īdobe uses Smart Previews to enable services like Lightroom for web. A Smart Preview is a compressed DNG file measuring 2560 pixels along the longest edge. Lightroom for web and Smart Previewsīut first, let’s talk about Smart Previews. So I think it will be interesting to take a closer look at it. Lightroom for web might be the most underrated of these. Did you know that as a Lightroom Classic subscriber you can access the photos in your Catalog in at least four different ways? There’s the Lightroom Classic app, the Lightroom app for mobile, the Lightroom desktop app and (last but not least) Lightroom for web.

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