Can Lightroom Publish Services rename exported files without changing the original RAW filenames?
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I use a Lightroom Publish Service (Publish to Hard Drive) to export photos for my website. I want the published/exported files to use different filenames than the original camera filenames, while keeping the originals unchanged in my catalog. Is there a way to control or customize the filenames used when Lightroom publishes the files?
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Hit edit settings on your publish service, there should be a "File Naming" section (3rd down for me) where you can choose to rename the images as they are published. The drop down has a bunch of caned options, plus an editor that gets you access to a TON of variables from the catalog that you can build your own custom name up with.
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Yes. In Lightroom, open the Publish Service settings and look for the File Naming section. There you can choose to rename files when they are published, without changing the original RAW filenames in your catalog.
Lightroom provides preset naming options, and you can also use the naming template editor to build custom filenames from metadata fields. For example, you can create names based on subject, location, date, and sequence number.
A common approach is to fill in metadata such as scene/subject, city, state, or country, then use those fields in the publish naming template. That lets Lightroom automatically generate descriptive output names for your website while leaving the source files untouched.
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