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The final step in the underwater Lightroom workflow is exporting the finished image with the right settings for its purpose, whether it will be used on a blog, social media, portfolio, or print. How to choose the right Lightroom export settings for blogs, social media, portfolios, and print Exporting underwater photos from Lightroom is the final step that protects the quality of your finished edit. If you choose the wrong file format, color space, image size, sharpening, or quality setting, a strong underwater photo can look soft, flat, over-compressed, or strangely colored once it leaves Lightroom. If you have followed this From Dull to WOW case-study series from the beginning, you have seen how much difference a clear Lightroom workflow can make. We started with an underwater photo that looked flat, dull, and far removed from what we experienced on the dive. Step by step, we worked through the process: White Balance → Exposure → Presence → Color → Masking → Final Cleanup → E...

Getting Your Underwater Photos Out of Lightroom Without Losing Quality An underwater image may look perfect inside Lightroom, but export settings determine how it appears on social media, in print, and everywhere else. 📘  Start here:   The Complete Guide to Editing Underwater Photos in Lightroom 👉 https://robertherb.blogspot.com/2026/03/editing-underwater-photos-lightroom-guide.html If you’ve been following the Back-to-Basics series up to this point, you’ve spent a lot of time working inside Lightroom. You’ve learned how to build a solid foundation using proper white balance, tone, and color. You understand how clarity, texture, and dehaze can either enhance an image or quietly ruin it. You’ve learned when to stop and how selective masking allows you to refine an underwater photo without making it look artificial. By the end of Part 5G , you should feel confident that you can make an underwater photograph look right inside Lightroom. But this is where many photographers h...