We do this through the Export dialog – usually we create JPEG copies to share online, through email, to send out to print, etc. This is when you need to create copies of your photos, with the work “baked in”. When you want to share your edited photos with the outside world, of course you can’t send people the originals plus a set of Lightroom instructions.
( Read more about the Lightroom catalog and how it relates to your photos in this article.) Is Exporting Another Way to Save My Work? The catalog doesn’t contain the photos themselves, just information about them.
The catalog is simply a file on your computer where your work on each of your photos in Lightroom is stored, along with other information about your photos. This work or instructions are automatically saved into Lightroom’s catalog. This is great, as it means that you can undo all or part of your work at any time – you can’t ruin your photo as you work on it! In Lightroom you are essentially seeing the instructions hovering over your master photos, but the instructions are not baked in to your masters. Instead, your Develop work is saved automatically behind the scenes as a set of instructions. First, Lightroom works non-destructively – meaning that it never touches your master photo files. It’s worth understanding this in more detail though. The short answer is that as you work in Lightroom – adding keywords, stars, flags and other metadata developing your photos creating collections and more, your work is being saved automatically, so there is no need to do a “Save” before you wrap up your session. You’ll notice that the File menu in the menu bar suspiciously does not have “File Save” and “File Save As …” options.
For those new to Lightroom, naturally you want to understand how to save your work.
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