Importing into Lightroom

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Importing into Lightroom

So we've put our photos in the right place. We've put him on a raid, one system so that it's backed up. We have. Our image is secure. And now it's time to start doing the fun part, which is looking at the photos themselves. Now. I talked to you about the idea that light room is kind of a library system. It's really the photos exist in the hard drive, but light room itself is never actually going to touch the photographs. They're always secure. They're always safe. It's a non destructive system. And so those images. We're just going to sit there in that hard drive, but we need to import them into light room. And when I say import in tow, light room, especially light room classic. The import process is not moving the files. It's not doing anything with the files. All it's doing is looking at the files, seeing what they look like and bringing them into light room as previews of the images. So you never actually adjusting the actual riel raw file. You never actually looking at the real raw...

file. You're looking at a preview of the file and then every time you adjust it. It's looking at the raw file, and it's making a new preview as to what it would look like if it were to export that file from the raw file. As with those changes, so you're really never doing anything to the raw file? And the only time that all those changes that you're gonna make inside a light room actually happen is when you export them when you send them out and share them somewhere, so we have to import them. But I need you to understand that you're not importing. You're not bringing him into light room. You're actually just making a reference. So let's go into the process of importing. So I'm going to the import button down here on the left hand side off the library module. I'm gonna open up. By the way, everywhere in light room, there are these little, um, these little triangles up at the top. They're over at the right hand side, the left hand side and the bottom side, and if you click on him, it shuts or opens that panel. So if you want to get rid of something and make more real estate, you can do that. You can also hit the shift tab key, and it will get rid of all of them at once. Shift tab brings them all back, or you can hit the tab key and it'll get rid of your side ones on the right on the left and bring them back. So whenever you want a little more, more real estate, get rid of all those things you're not using and just see your images. So what we're gonna be is in the lot were in the library module here, and we're in the import button here, So I'm clicking on the import button and there's a whole bunch of things I could do inside of the import dialog box and all of them bear mentioning here. So on the left hand side, this is where we're getting our images. This is the source up at the top. Here is what we can do to the photos. Now, If you were plugging in a card and that card popped up the import dialog box, it would ask you if you want to copy him if you want to move them from the card because it would have to actually take the photos off the card and put them somewhere on your hard drive, and that's what these options air for. But if you're not doing it from an external source, all you need to do is add them because, adding means, all I'm doing is looking at the files, seeing what they look like and drawing in that information and building previews. But I'm leaving the files exactly where they are. That is my preference, because my preference, as they mentioned, is that you know exactly where your files are at all times. That's critical to your workflow and to the file security of those images. So up top is what you're going to do with it, how you're going to get them, where into light room and then on the left hand side are all sorts of cool options for file handling and what to do with the images on the way in

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Jared Platt is an international wedding, lifestyle, and portrait photographer and photographic lecturer.  Jared began his studies in photography in documentary and landscapes, but today you will find his images are a perfect blend of the three genres.

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Ira Richterman

I am truly a recreational novice in the photography world and this video is fantastic. Photography has become a very technical world both on the camera side as well as post production. Jared has great teaching skills and sure makes it look very simple. I would recommend this video for those starting out in Lightroom as this program can be overwhelming and has a daunting amount of information. I would like to know if there is a resource of location of contact to ask a question or two for clarifications as a viewer goes through the course. For example, when making a new collection and if you choose the option of making this new collection a target collection, what happens if you then make another new collection and select that new collection to be a target collection? If you click on B to add a photo to a target collection and you made two target collections then where does this virtual selection go, ie into which target collection? Thanks Ira irichterma@aol.com

catherine Haggerty

Loved this class. As a beginner it really gives me working knowledge to use LR confidently. This class is older, so a few times I really had to stop and figure out how it worked in the newest version of LR... but all in all this class was amazing!

Dan Clarke

This class was great. I've never used Lightroom before and now I feel comfortable in it. Massive amount of good info.

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Importing into Lightroom

Importing into Lightroom

Lesson Info

5. Importing into Lightroom

Lessons

Differences Between Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic

Hard Drives

File Organization

30,000 Foot View of Workflow

Importing into Lightroom

Building Previews

Collections and Publish Services

Keywords

Hardware for Lightroom

Searching for Images

Selecting Images

Organizing Images

Collecting Images for Use

Develop Module Overview

Profiles

Basic Adjustments

Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze

Basics Panel: Saturation and Vibrance

Tone Curve

HSL

Split Tone

Lens Corrections

Details

Transform Tool

Effects Panel

Synchronizing for Faster Editing

Spot Tool

Skin Softening and Brush Work

Range Masking

Dodge and Burn

Working with Specific Colors

Edit Quickly with Gradient Filters

Making Presets

Preparing Image in Lightroom

Content Aware Fill

Skin Repair

Skin Smoothing

Expanding a Canvas

Liquify

Layers and Composite Images

Sharing via Web

Exporting Files

Sharing with Slideshows

Archiving Photos and Catalogs

Designing

Making Prints

Color Management and Profiles

Archiving Photos and Catalogs

Using Cloud Storage

Adding Images to your Portfolio

Collecting for Your Portfolio

Publishing Unique Websites Per Project

Sharing to Instagram

HDR

Panorama

HDR Panorama

Making Presets

Creating Profiles

Maps

Setup for Tethered Shooting

Sharing with the Client

Watched Folder Process

Second Monitor and iPad

Backup at the Camera

Gnar Box Disk Backup

iPhone and iPad Review

Importing to Lightroom on iPad

Cloud Backup

Adjust, Edit, and Organize

Using Lightroom Between Devices

Lightroom Desktop

Removing Images from the Cloud

Profiles

Light