b_gossweiler
Senior Member
This is a post created from a PM I received from Photographyfreak, and I think this is the better place to discuss it than via PMs:
When exporting, all the images that you select are exported. I suspect that you wanted to export one image each in several separate exports, but had one image active as the most selected and several additional images selected to go with it each time exporting.
In LR, you can have two sorts of selected images, which is a kind of unique to this program:
To change the most selected image within a group of selected images, click into the center of the thumbnail (it will get a light gray border). To de-select all but one images, click into the gray border of an image (it will get a light gray border for being the most selected, but all others will be de-selected).
Before going further, can you try to answer a few questions for me:
There is actually no problem deleting superfluous exports, but I'd like to make sure we don't delete any originals in your case.
As far as "saving" just the images you edited:
Be aware of the fact that saving your edits does not involve exporting images. The edits you've applied to your images are recorded in the LR catalog, which you should backup on a regular basis, besides backing up your originals.
If you want to export just recently edited images, I can see two ways of doing that:
Beat
Photographyfreak said:Hi, I am new to the forums. I did some editing last night, and when I would export each photo, for some reason it was exporting the last 12-15 over and over, not sure if I clicked something by accident or not. But now I have all these pictures in a folder, how do I get rid of all those extras, and save just the one I wanted? Also is there a way to be in Lightroom and just save the ones that were edited, without clicking on each picture?
Thank you so much for your help
When exporting, all the images that you select are exported. I suspect that you wanted to export one image each in several separate exports, but had one image active as the most selected and several additional images selected to go with it each time exporting.
In LR, you can have two sorts of selected images, which is a kind of unique to this program:
- The so called most selected image is the one shown with a light gray border in the grid
- The rest of the selected images are the ones shwon with a medium gray border in the grid
To change the most selected image within a group of selected images, click into the center of the thumbnail (it will get a light gray border). To de-select all but one images, click into the gray border of an image (it will get a light gray border for being the most selected, but all others will be de-selected).
Before going further, can you try to answer a few questions for me:
- Did you export into a different folder than where your originals reside?
- Did you add the exported images to your catalog?
- What filenames do the exported images carry?
- Can you provide an Explorer screenshot of the folder where your exported images reside?
- What file-type (Raw/JPEG) are your originals?
There is actually no problem deleting superfluous exports, but I'd like to make sure we don't delete any originals in your case.
As far as "saving" just the images you edited:
Be aware of the fact that saving your edits does not involve exporting images. The edits you've applied to your images are recorded in the LR catalog, which you should backup on a regular basis, besides backing up your originals.
If you want to export just recently edited images, I can see two ways of doing that:
- Establish a smart collection with criteria "Edit Date is in the last ....." and export all members of this smart collection
- Establish a (smart) publish service to harddisk with all your potential exports, publish it once and then republish after editing some images
Beat
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