Lesson Info
5. Importing into Lightroom
Lessons
Differences Between Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic
19:42 2Hard Drives
08:06 3File Organization
08:31 430,000 Foot View of Workflow
05:36 5Importing into Lightroom
04:10 6Building Previews
07:14 7Collections and Publish Services
05:11 8Keywords
06:27Hardware for Lightroom
06:08 10Searching for Images
07:51 11Selecting Images
14:15 12Organizing Images
04:02 13Collecting Images for Use
14:56 14Develop Module Overview
10:15 15Profiles
11:34 16Basic Adjustments
11:45 17Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze
05:31 18Basics Panel: Saturation and Vibrance
02:40 19Tone Curve
09:26 20HSL
04:48 21Split Tone
08:19 22Lens Corrections
08:32 23Details
09:34 24Transform Tool
05:52 25Effects Panel
10:00 26Synchronizing for Faster Editing
07:40 27Spot Tool
17:51 28Skin Softening and Brush Work
07:00 29Range Masking
13:28 30Dodge and Burn
17:36 31Working with Specific Colors
08:30 32Edit Quickly with Gradient Filters
11:22 33Making Presets
13:24 34Preparing Image in Lightroom
09:51 35Content Aware Fill
11:14 36Skin Repair
02:44 37Skin Smoothing
14:39 38Expanding a Canvas
04:30 39Liquify
10:22 40Layers and Composite Images
12:54 41Sharing via Web
17:52 42Exporting Files
10:47 43Sharing with Slideshows
08:00 44Archiving Photos and Catalogs
19:54 45Designing
13:35 46Making Prints
11:27 47Color Management and Profiles
13:00 48Archiving Photos and Catalogs
11:31 49Using Cloud Storage
04:09 50Adding Images to your Portfolio
09:23 51Collecting for Your Portfolio
18:03 52Publishing Unique Websites Per Project
19:48 53Sharing to Instagram
07:06 54HDR
15:32 55Panorama
06:41 56HDR Panorama
09:54 57Making Presets
15:39 58Creating Profiles
18:09 59Maps
07:08 60Setup for Tethered Shooting
23:21 61Sharing with the Client
05:42 62Watched Folder Process
07:04 63Second Monitor and iPad
06:09 64Backup at the Camera
03:50 65Gnar Box Disk Backup
06:45 66iPhone and iPad Review
12:52 67Importing to Lightroom on iPad
02:59 68Cloud Backup
04:39 69Adjust, Edit, and Organize
07:46 70Using Lightroom Between Devices
11:27 71Lightroom Desktop
05:27 72Removing Images from the Cloud
10:49 73Profiles
09:34 74Light
04:34 75Color
05:36 76Effects
15:22 77Details
08:33 78Optics
03:49 79Geometry
04:12 80Crop
04:39 81Adding and Using Presets and Profiles
13:41 82Local Adjustments
15:40 83Healing Tool
03:29 84Synchronizing Edits
04:57 85Editing in Photoshop
08:54 86Finding Images
07:09 87Sharing and Exporting Albums on the Web
09:18 88Posting Images to Social Media
14:01 89Overview of Lightroom Desktop
07:35 90The Workflow Overview
10:08 91Organizing Images
05:10 92Albums and Shared Albums
18:21 93Lightroom Desktop Workspace Overview
04:36 94Importing and Selecting Images
09:23 95HDR and Panoramics
22:44 96Light
07:47 97Profiles
07:23 98Tone Curves
02:57 99Color
08:35 100Effects
17:01 101Details
12:43 102Optics
04:05 103Geometry and Crop Tool
06:01 104Sync Settings
02:40 105Making and Adding Presets
03:48 106Healing Brush
02:21 107Brush Tool
03:14 108Gradient Tool
04:16 109Edit in Photoshop
02:53 110Finding Images with Sensei
06:32 111Sharing Albums on the Web
04:57 112Print through Photoshop
02:09 113Exporting Images to Files or Web Services
04:36 114Connecting with Lightroom Classic and Mobile Devices
05:24 115Archiving Images for Storage
09:55 116Review of the Workflow
07:20Lesson Info
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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Ratings and Reviews
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
Dan Clarke
This class was great. I've never used Lightroom before and now I feel comfortable in it. Massive amount of good info.
Hannah
Thorough but very easy to follow. I've noticed a significant improvement in my work since starting this course a couple weeks ago, and I'm also spending noticeably less time editing my photos. I appreciate that it's up-to-date as of October, 2020, so the info is current (I wish CL would take down some of the older courses, since software changes make some of them obsolete).