Print to file in Lightroom

[Rufus]

Could our Lightroom Classic users help with this please?

I am using Windows 10 but all steps are being taken in Lightroom.

My objective is copy several images in my Lightroom catalog to a memory stick. The memory stick has some sub folders.

The processed images in the LR catalog may be .dng or .psd files in the Adobe RGB colourspace. I want to have them all copied to the memory stick and saved as jpegs in sRGB.

I have moved the files to a collection created for this puropse, but of course, they remain unaltered at this stage.

I have discovered that LR has the facility to print to Jpeg and it allows me to choose sRGB. When I select all the images in the collection and choose "Print to jpeg", it asks where to save the new files.

I tried to save them in the root folder. When I select that folder LR warns me as follows.

"OVERWRITE CONFIRMATION. The destination J:\ aleady exists. This folder and all its contents may be overwritten. Are you sure you want to proceed saving the print job to this location? Proceed/Cancel"

If I create a new folder eg J:\[Existing folder name]\[New folder name] Lightroom saves the images into the new folder but names the fies New folder-01.jpeg, New folder-02.jpg, New folder-03.jpeg etc.

I don't mind whether I save to the root a folder or a subfolder, but I would like to retain the file name from LR with the extension changed to jpeg.

There must be something else I should be doing in LR to achieve my stated objective.

[stuck]

Could our Lightroom Classic users help with this please?

I am using Windows 10 but all steps are being taken in Lightroom.

My objective is copy several images in my Lightroom catalog to a memory stick. The memory stick has some sub folders.

The processed images in the LR catalog may be .dng or .psd files in the Adobe RGB colourspace. I want to have them all copied to the memory stick and saved as jpegs in sRGB...

I'm not a Lightroom user but a simple Google search on the key words 'lightroom print to jpeg' finds this tutorial:
https://lenscraft.co.uk/photo-editin...print-to-jpeg/

If I understand it correctly then this feature is not really designed for your task.

[LenR]

Hello David, have you looked at the "Export" function under the "File" option in LR Library.
That will allow you to select a specific folder ( the memory stick in your case) You can use "File Naming" to identify the image(s) to your liking, choose the image format (jpeg, DNG etc...) select a colour space, resize etc.
You can export individually or select multiple images in the catalog using Ctrl/mouse click.

[pschlute]

Select your DNG/PSD images and choose "export".

Select your settings and press export.

Although I use LR for cataloguing my images I don't use it for processing/saving as jpeg. The whole "virtual" image thing is beyond me.

[DanK]

Len beat me to it. Just export them as JPEGs with whatever settings you want. You can directly export them to the memory stick or export them to a location on your hard drive and move them to the stick in Windows.

I've never used the print-to-file function, but I assume that's for using when you want to incorporate the adjustments done in the print module, which isn't the case you describe.

[Rufus]

Len, Peter and Dan - thank you for pointing me to the Export function. I stumbled across the Print to File option and went down that road all the way to a dead end!

Export is definitely the way to go.