Lightroom Classic, straight into the gallery.
Select the photos, choose Xposure under Export To and pick the gallery. Lightroom renders the files and the plugin uploads them while you carry on editing.
- Plugin
- 0.2.0
- Runs in
- Lightroom Classic 10.0+, macOS and Windows
- Plans
- Pro, Studio and the 14-day trial
- Not for
- The Lightroom app, which takes no export plugins
What happens after you press Export.
Nothing to watch. Each step leaves something you can check. Solid marks are Xposure, hollow ones are Lightroom.
- 1
Lightroom renders each photo.
Your develop settings, your Image Sizing and Output Sharpening. The plugin only fixes the format.
JPEG, sRGB, quality 85 unless you change it
- 2
Xposure looks for the same picture in the gallery.
Before anything is stored. A match is skipped and costs no storage.
Already there: skipped
- 3
The rest upload one at a time.
They count toward your storage like any upload. A busy moment or a dropped connection means a pause and a retry, not a failed batch.
Up to 95 MB and 300 megapixels a file
- 4
Xposure reads the camera data, then strips the file.
Camera, lens and settings show on the photo in the gallery. The stored file keeps no metadata, so a location in it never reaches a viewer.
Camera, lens, aperture, shutter and ISO
- 5
Lightroom tells you how it went.
One line of counts, the files that failed and why, and a link to the gallery.
Export the whole shoot again. Only the edits land.
Xposure compares the picture, not the file. Lightroom writes a new file on every export, so a byte check would upload everything twice. Here the 245 untouched frames are skipped before they count toward storage.
The three you regraded arrive as new photos next to the originals. Nothing is replaced, so the client's favourites stay on the frames they picked. Delete the old versions when you are ready.
DSC_0412.jpgSkipped, same picture
DSC_0419.jpgAdded, edited since
DSC_0420.jpgSkipped, same picture
DSC_0533.jpgAdded, edited since
DSC_0571.jpgSkipped, same picture
DSC_0602.jpgAdded, edited since- 242 more, all skipped
Uploaded 3, skipped 245 duplicate(s), failed 0.
The client's picks come back the same way.
When a client sends their favourites, copy the filenames from the gallery and paste them into the Library filter: Text, Filename, Contains. The extensions are left off, so the names find your raw files in the catalogue.
Proofing is on every paid plan, so this part works on Starter too. How proofing works
Your key lasts 90 days.
You paste it into Lightroom once, then again every 90 days. Settings warns you two weeks ahead.
Day 0
You make the key in Settings, Apps and paste it into the Export dialog.
Day 76
Settings shows a warning with the date. Fourteen days to go.
Day 90
Uploads stop. Make a new key and paste it.
- Only the account owner can make a key. Team members cannot.
- A new key stops the old one at once, on every computer that uses it.
- Signing out of every session can revoke the key in the same step.
- On Starter the key stops working until you are back on Pro or Studio.
When an export stops, it says why.
A problem with one file skips that file. A problem with the account stops the batch and tells you what to fix.
| What happened | What the plugin does | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| The key expired or was replaced | Stops the batch | Make a new key, paste it once |
| Your trial ended | Stops the batch, offers Upgrade | Choose a plan |
| Your storage is full | Stops the batch and says so | Delete photos, add storage or move up a plan |
| A file is over 95 MB or 300 megapixels | Skips it, carries on, lists it at the end | Export that one smaller |
| Xposure asks it to slow down | Waits as long as asked, then carries on | Nothing |
| The connection drops | Retries with longer pauses | Nothing |
Before you install.
Does it work with the Lightroom app, not Classic?
No. Only Lightroom Classic accepts export plugins. From the Lightroom app, export to a folder and drop the folder into the gallery in your browser.
Can I send raw files?
The plugin sends JPEGs. To deliver raw files, upload them in the browser, where they are kept as you sent them.
Should I make the gallery from Lightroom?
Make client galleries in Xposure first. Create album in Lightroom makes a portfolio album, with no PIN and no Send to client.
Where is the step by step?
Three steps on the integrations page, and every click in the help guide Upload from Lightroom Classic.
Export your next shoot from Lightroom.
The trial is Pro, so the plugin works for fourteen days. No card. Download the plugin.