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Apply Smart Previews? (And Why Should I?)

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So, why would you want a smart preview in the first place? It’s mostly for two groups of users: (1) You work on a laptop and don’t have a ton of hard drive space, so you use an external hard drive to store your high-resolution images. But, when you travel and disconnect that hard drive, you can’t edit your photos in the Develop module because they’re just small thumbnail previews, and Lightroom won’t let you edit low-res junk. A smart preview is a larger preview, but specially compressed so it doesn’t take ...

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