Exporting, CSV and contact sheets
Hand over copies without the metadata you'd rather keep private, or turn a shoot into a spreadsheet or a PDF.
Export copies of photos
Select the photos, then click Export… in the bar at the bottom.
The dialog lists what stays in the copies. Untick anything you’d rather not hand over:
- GPS & location: where the photo was taken, including the place name.
- Camera & lens serial numbers
- Maker notes: focus points and camera-specific settings.
- Keywords, copyright & creator
- No metadata (image only) removes everything, including the date and camera model.
When some of the photos still carry GPS or serial numbers, the dialog says how many, so you can decide before they leave your Mac.
Click Choose destination & export… and pick a folder. Your originals and their sidecars are never changed: only the copies are. If a file with the same name is already there, the copy gets a number, like Finder does.
Saved edits go into the copies, including those in XMP sidecars. Unsaved edits don’t: save first if you want them included. The dialog reminds you when there are some.
A CSV for a spreadsheet
File ▸ Export CSV… writes one row per photo: filename, date, camera, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, latitude and longitude (as separate columns), place, keywords, copyright, artist, width, height and file path. It opens in Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets.
Contact sheets
File ▸ Contact Sheet (Grid)… makes a PDF of thumbnails with filenames and dates. File ▸ Contact Sheet (Table)… makes one row per photo, with a larger image beside its date, camera, lens, exposure, place, keywords, credit and dimensions. Choose Portrait or Landscape, and Light for printing or Dark for the screen.
Which photos
CSV files and contact sheets use your selection if you have one. Without a selection, they include every photo that passes the current folders and filters, in the current sort order. So you can filter down to a shoot and export it without selecting anything.