Bringing Photos Into Lightroom Classic
- Getting started
- Lightroom is your digital notebook
- The import process
- Importing photos from a digital camera
- Importing images from a hard disk
- Importing via drag and drop
- Evaluating photos before importing
- Images that are already imported
- Importing to a specific folder
- Importing from a watched folder
- Tethered shooting
- Viewing imported photos in the work area
- Review questions
- Review answers
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
LESSON OVERVIEW
Lightroom Classic allows a great deal of flexibility when importing photos: You can download them directly from a camera, import them from an external drive, or transfer them between catalogs on separate computers. During the import process, you can organize folders, add keywords and metadata to make your photos easier to find, make backup copies, and even apply editing presets. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:
Import images from a camera or card reader.
Import images from a hard disk or removable media.
Evaluate images before importing.
Organize, rename, and process images automatically.
Implement a backup strategy.
Set up automatic importing and create import presets.
Acquire images from other catalogs and applications.
This lesson will take about 90 minutes to complete. To get the lesson files used in this chapter, download them from the web page for this book. For more information, see “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition” in the Getting Started section at the beginning of this book.
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Lightroom Classic helps you to begin organizing and managing your growing photo library. From the moment you click the Import button, you can make backups, create and organize folders, inspect images at high magnification, and add keywords and other metadata that will save you hours of sorting and searching your image library later—and all this before your photos even reach your catalog!
Getting started
Before you begin, make sure you’ve set up the LRC2023CIB folder for your lesson files and downloaded the lesson02 folder from your Account page at peachpit.com to the LRC2023CIB\Lessons folder, as described in “Accessing the lesson files and Web Edition” in the “Getting Started” section at the start of this book. Also, be sure you have created the LRC2023CIB Catalog file to manage the lesson files, as detailed in “Creating a catalog file for working with this book,” also in the “Getting Started” section.
Start Lightroom Classic. In the Select Catalog dialog box, make sure that LRC2023CIB Catalog.lrcat is selected, and then click Open.
Lightroom Classic will open in the screen mode and workspace module that were active when you last quit. If necessary, switch to the Library module by clicking Library in the Module Picker at the top of the workspace.
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