Saving in Lightroom

[KrazyPete]

OK, I've watched the tutorial videos. I've been through the Lightroom site and forums. I poked around at every control in the program itself. But I just cannot figure out how to save a picture!

I can print, make a slideshow, and a website. But, I can't save my changes back to JPG files. I realize that its non-destructive editing is a feature. I appreciate that it preserves my originals. How in the world do I create a full size JPG file with my corrections?

I have even have "save" and "save as" options in the menu but they are disabled. Am I missing something or is that feature crippled in the beta version?

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Your changes are automatically saved to a metadata file. The original photo file is never touched. If you want to save the photo with your changes, you "export" the picture.

 

[KrazyPete]

Thanks Mark, that was it.

The function of the export menu item changes depending on the screen you are on. The first time I tried it I was on the Web Site screen so export tried to create a web site.

From the library screen it did exactly what I needed it to do