55. EXPORTING AND IMPORTING CATALOGS

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WHILE LIGHTROOM IS a great program for monitoring your images—where you’ve placed them and what changes you’ve made to them—some photographers want to move information from one notebook to another notebook. Lightroom has a pretty straightforward way of doing that.

To export a catalog from Lightroom go to File > Export as Catalog (Figure 55.1). The Export as Catalog dialog will appear, letting you specify a new location in which to save this catalog file (Figure 55.2).

You have a couple of other options here as well. At the bottom of this dialog, you can choose to Export selected photos only, Export negative ...

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