Lightroom Mag June-July

Lightroom Magazine
in the Develop module as you would the full-resolution
original, because of their smaller pixel dimensions you
won’t be able to zoom in to the same level of detail as
you could with the original. Additionally, if only a smart
preview is available, you won’t be able to send copies
with Lightroom adjustments to Photoshop (or any other
third-party editor), which could be a serious limitation
to your workflow (those options will be grayed out). And,
finally, while you can use the Export dialog with just a smart
preview, you’ll be exporting a copy of the smaller smart preview,
not the original.
Store the Catalog in a
Synced Cloud Storage Location
In this scenario, you swap out the concept of an external
hard drive for a local storage location that’s managed by
some sort of synchronization service. Dropbox and OneDrive
are commonly used examples, but there are other cloud synchronization
services, as well as software options for creating
your own local cloud storage using your NAS.
Let’s take a look at Dropbox, as that’s the most commonly
referenced service and one that I use, as well. The way this
works is that you create a Dropbox account (there are free
2-GB accounts or paid options for more storage), and then
you install the Dropbox software on the computers you
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