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Exporting Your RAW Image from Lightroom Mobile

Hi Gang, and happy Wednesday! In the most recent update to Lightroom Mobile, Adobe added in a feature that was requested by a lot of users — the ability to download a RAW image taken using Lightroom Mobile’s built-in camera to the Camera Roll (rather than syncing it back to Lightroom desktop as the only way to move a copy of that RAW image). Here’s how to do it:

Tap on the image you want to save your Camera Roll, then tap on the “Share” icon. A pop-up menu (seen above) will appear and now there’s a menu item called ‘Export Original.’

When you choose ‘Export to Original’ the RAW image saved to your camera roll.

The RAW files are pretty HUGE (like you’d expect from a RAW file, right?). When I went to email the image from my camera roll to myself (probably not the most efficient method, but it works), a file size warning comes up that the file is probably too big to email, at a whopping 48.2 MB for a single image (many folks maximum email attachment size taps out at 10MB). So, now that your image is on your camera roll, you might want to consider moving it via DropBox, or iCloud Drive, or Google Drive, or AirDrop, or anything other than email.

Hope you found that helpful. 🙂

Come catch The Grid today at 4pm
If you haven’t caught an episode of “The Grid” (my free weekly show for photographers broadcast live every Wednesday), come on by and check it out (it’s open to everybody), and we take your comments and questions live on the show. Here’s the link to watch it live today (We also simulcast it to my Facebook page if you prefer that). My guest is the ultra awesome iPhone princess herself, the one and only Kalebra Kelby (whoo hoo!).

Have a kick-butt Wednesday everybody!

-Scott

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