We present the global optical photometry of 246 galaxies in the Local Volume Legacy ( LVL ) survey .
The full volume-limited sample consists of 258 nearby ( D < 11 Mpc ) galaxies whose absolute B - band magnitude span a range of -9.6 < M _ { B } < -20.7 mag .
A composite optical ( UBVR ) data set is constructed from observed UBVR and SDSS ugriz imaging , where the ugriz magnitudes are transformed into UBVR .
We present photometry within three galaxy apertures defined at UV , optical , and IR wavelengths .
Flux comparisons between these apertures reveal that the traditional optical R25 galaxy apertures do not fully encompass extended sources .
Using the larger IR apertures we find color-color relationships where later-type spiral and irregular galaxies tend to be bluer than earlier-type galaxies .
These data provide the missing optical emission from which future LVL studies can construct the full panchromatic ( UV-optical-IR ) spectral energy distributions .