IMPORTANT LIGHTROOM EXPORT SETTING FOR INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK

Surely lots of you had come across an instance that you publish your picture, pre-improved in the Lightroom, but the moment it was published, the picture turned blurry or the quality deteriorated significantly. It is because, the LR isn’t like the analogs, saving every edits in its program, and then not in its folder.

How to be sure that your picture is published similarly as you are seeing it in a picture editor? The answer will depend on the Lightroom export setting for Instagram and Facebook. Be conscious that all the next settings will apply for a desktop version of a program. When you are using the Lightroom Mobile, you will need to create other settings.

1. Open the Export Dialog

The moment you choose pictures to post to your Instagram or Facebook, upload them into Lightroom. Open in the Export dialog area in any way here below:

• Select a photo from filmstrips, then click & right-click over it. When a pop-up menu shows, select Export > Export

• In its main menu, select File > Export

• Press the Ctrl+Shift+E (Windows) or the Cmd+Shift+E (Mac) on the keyboard

Select the handiest means for you to take the Export Dialog area.

2. Choose Export Location

Choose the export location in preparing the photo for Facebook and Instagram. When an Export Dialog box is open, go to its Export Location area. You can transmit the pictures to a CD/DVD, hard drive, or email, but, it is recommended to use the hard drive in this case.

When you selected the hard drive to store the pictures, you need to identify which folder the pictures can be stored in. This may be the similar folder where an original is placed, and also another one.

You may use a default destination also like Pictures, Desktop, Documents, and more. Each one of them gives practically all similar alternatives that had been described before.

3. Create the Picture Export Folder

Following the Lightroom tutorial, you have to make the folder that will save the pictures with the proper Lightroom export setting for social media. Also, you can save an image in the folder along with its original, but it is recommended to save this in the separate copy. It can make your job simpler when you make the export presets.

4. Create the Sub Folder

Make and name the new subfolder. Then check its Put in Sub-Folder box. Below you can see an Add to The Catalog checkbox. It is recommended to leave this box unchecked so it can avoid creating duplications in the catalog.

5. Change the name of the Image

When making fitted Lightroom export setting for Instagram, try to add the suffix to quickly find pictures for every specific social network. Locate the File Renaming and then check the box beside the Rename To. Then, choose the Custom Name option from its drop-down list, then enter the suffix.

6. Adjust File Setting

 You can make some kinds of images, but it is recommended to choose the JPEG alternatives as a picture format and the sRGB for the color space. The alternative met the requirements of its majority of the web applications.

7. Adjust Photo Quality

Utilize a slider to set its desired image quality. Bear in mind that its file size may rely on the chosen quality. It is normally suggested to set its quality to about 76% for proper setup of the Lightroom export to Instagram and Facebook.

8. Set Image Sizes

To resize the picture, go to its Export Dialog box located in its Image Sizing area. Instagram and Facebook have some limits of sizes. This should consider since if the pictures are more than its set limit, they can be compressed during its publication and also, it will lose quality. In preventing this from taking place to your cover, be sure that the image is not bigger than 100KB.

When the photos are outside the Instagram or Facebook profile photo limits set requirements, you have to decrease the size. Go to the Lr export dialogue box, locate the Resize that will Fit there, and then adjust the Long Edge base on Facebook and Instagram standards. Then after that, set its necessary value in pixels, based on similar standards.

9. Add Sharpening to Online Applications

Since it is best not to sharpen the picture when getting ready to print, it is best to complete it for allocating over online apps like Instagram and Facebook. Find its Output Sharpening tab for selecting the Screen and Standard alternatives there.

10. Describe which Metadata to take in

To minimize the danger of somebody grabbing the social media photos, select which metadata to you will include. It can be specified also in the Lightroom export setups for Facebook and Instagram. For the social networks, it is advised to add copyright metadata. While at the drop-down menu, you’ll need to choose Copyright and Contact Info Only or Copyright Only.

11. Set Watermarking

This may be a great idea to watermark the image before exporting this to social media. To add watermark in the Lightroom may be completed in two ways.

Choose Simple Copyright Watermark alternative when you have made the watermark in advance. Or else, find Edit Watermark and click.

At the window which opens, you may select the watermark to accompany the picture – graphic or text. In the first case, you need the ready-made file that has the watermark picture. It is still best if it is a PNG file that has the transparent background.

Set each important parameter so that its watermark has the appearance that you need – opacity, location, size and more. When finished, save it for situations that you need it once more when adjusting the Lightroom export setting for Instagram and Facebook so you may can do it fast.

12. Make the Post Processing of the Image

Since you are almost finished, it is now time to edit the pictures in the Lightroom when you like. Find the Post Processing and choose the fitted option.

Doing nothing is an alternative for those who don’t need editing, but will just need to post it right away. In cases that you wish to pre-edit an image, click the Open in the Adobe Photoshop or Open in the Other Application. When you need the photos ready quickly, click Go to Export Action Folder Now so that you do not have to look for pictures for a longer time.

13. Save the Settings as the Preset for Export

Now, you may save the Lightroom export setting for the social media as the preset for future use. In your Preset field, locate the Add button, then, click to choose New Folder next. Right after adding the preset to the new folder, name it, click Export.

14. Hit on its Export Button

Since you have finished every important setting and the picture is really ready to publish on social media in the accurate form, click the Export, thereby verifying the actions.