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The settings of a publish service are almost the same as a normal export from Lightroom, and you can use many of the same options.
After saving changes to the edit settings Lightroom will prompt you to re-publish all of your images. **I highly recommend not doing this**. Unfortunately there's no way for a publish plugin to stop Lightroom from showing this prompt. If you accidentally do this, you can right click images in the "Modified Photos to Re-Publish" section of the publish collection, and select "Mark as Up-To-Date".
iNaturalist will automatically downsize any image with a long edge longer than 2048 pixels, so there's no reason to export any larger than this. Choose "Resize to fit", "Long Edge", "2048" pixels, and check "Don't enlarge". Of course you may export smaller than 2048 pixels if you prefer to do that.
The recommended settings are "All Except Camera & Camera Raw Info", with "Remove Location Info" unchecked. This will upload the smallest amount of metadata to iNaturalist that includes everything that is needed for a research grade observation, without you having to manually add the metadata to the observation.
Note that GPS metadata is controlled by the "Remove Location Info" checkbox, so it is possible to create an export without GPS info even for the settings with a check under GPS.
| Setting | Time | GPS | Keywords | Sample | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copyright Only | link | ||||
| Copyright & Contact Info Only | link | ||||
| All Except Camera Raw Info | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | link | Contains more data than the next option |
| All Except Camera & Camera Raw Info | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | link | |
| All Metadata | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | link | Includes information about how the image was edited |
You can control which metadata is exported in a more fine-grained way with Jeffrey Friedl's Metadata Wrangler plugin.