Export photos from Litria

An export is a finished copy of a photo, saved to a folder you choose. Litria makes it on your device from the full photo, with your edits, masks and looks applied. Nothing is uploaded, and the original file is not touched.

You can export from two places. The library exports a whole selection in one run. The editor exports the photo you have open.

Export a selection from the library

1. Select the photos you want. A bar appears with the actions for the selection.
2. Choose Export. When the bar is short of room, Export is an icon, or it sits in the bar's menu.
3. The Export photos dialog opens. It shows how many photos you selected.
4. Under Destination, choose Choose export folder and pick a folder. Litria remembers it. From then on the whole folder row is the button: press it to pick another folder, and its tooltip reads Change.
5. Set the format, size and metadata. Each is described below.
6. Press the button at the bottom, which names the count, such as Export 3 photos or Export 1 photo.

The export button stays off until Litria has a folder it can write to. If Litria says it needs permission for the folder again, the second line of the folder row reads Reconnect export folder. Press the row to reconnect.

Export one photo from the editor

Open the Export section of the editor's panel, or press E. The section has the same Format, Size and Metadata groups as the dialog, then Destination, then Export photo.

Under Destination you see the name the file will get. In a browser, if you have never chosen a folder, the export is downloaded, and your browser decides the final name.

Both places share one set of settings. What you choose in the dialog is what the editor offers next time, and the other way around. Litria keeps your choices for the next export even if you cancel the dialog.

Format and quality

There are three formats.

• JPEG opens everywhere. This is where Litria starts.
• PNG is lossless and makes a much larger file.
• WebP is smaller than JPEG at the same quality. Some apps still cannot open it.

JPEG and WebP have a Quality slider from 1 to 100. It starts at 90. PNG has no quality setting, so the slider goes away when you pick it.

Size

• Full resolution is the photo at its cropped size. This is where Litria starts.
• 4096 px and 2048 px scale the photo so its longer side is that many pixels.
• Custom is in the editor only. You type a width or a height and the other follows, because the two stay linked to the photo's cropped shape.

In the editor, Full resolution and the two long-edge sizes each show the pixel dimensions they give for the open photo.

Litria never enlarges a photo. If a photo is already smaller than the size you picked, it exports at its own size. If your device cannot hold a photo at the size you asked for, Litria exports the largest size it can, and a notice says what size it used.

Metadata and location

The Metadata template has four choices.

• None: the file carries no camera, lens, date or copyright information.
• Safe: the camera, lens, capture date, exposure settings, focal length and copyright from the photo, and never the location. This is where Litria starts.
• All: the same fields, plus the photo's location if it has GPS coordinates.
• Custom: the choice you get when you tick the fields yourself. Location is one of them.

Location is left out of every export unless you choose All, or tick Location under Custom. In a selection, the choice applies to every photo, and each file gets its own coordinates.

Every export also carries an sRGB color profile, whichever option you choose.

File names

An export takes the name of its photo, with -litria added and the extension of the format. IMG_0412.CR2 exported as JPEG becomes IMG_0412-litria.jpg.

Litria never replaces a file that is already in the folder. If the name is taken, the export is saved as IMG_0412-litria-2.jpg, then -3, and so on.

While a selection exports

A card titled Exporting photos shows a progress bar, how many photos are done and the file Litria is working on. You can keep browsing while it runs.

Choose Cancel on the card to stop. The files already written stay in the folder.

If a photo fails, the rest of the selection still exports. When the run ends, the card says how many exported and how many failed. Under Notifications, Export failures lists the photos that failed, each with the reason. Where another attempt can help, Retry failed exports runs only the photos that failed, with the same settings and folder.

Open Litria

Open Litria in Chrome or Edge, or download the desktop app. Select a few photos in the library and choose Export.