Top 4 Importing Tips for Adobe Lightroom Classic 

You had me at “importing can be intimidating.” Now I know the process can be simplified by just plugging camera or card reader directly into my computer. Thank you! Now I’m excited to learn more.

I think this helps in the reduced time concept. I import ALL pictures to a file name NEW. This way I can get the long-running part out of the way. I then come back within Lightroom and move from NEW to the correct folder, I can add Keywords if I want for the group of files I am moving. Repeat until NEW is empty. When I load to Lightroom it may be from multiple days. I also tend to mix family pictures with landscapes and wildlife. Because I have multiple subject areas, moving from within Lightroom is easier for me.

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thank you for the detailed guide, it helped me install this soft

Thanks for those clear and sensible tips; appreciate your tutorial!

I’m so screwed. I’ve been using Lightroom since Lr3. I recently upgraded to LrC subscription. I’m using a Mac. I have a total inventory of over 17,000 pictures. What I’ve been doing for years is I would download the original files into Finder on my Mac. I would then organize the folder with a unique name in the pictures folder on my Mac. Right now, if you were to go into the pictures folder in finder, it all looks very organized. Then, when I was ready to edit in LrC, I would import the folder. I’m am SO confused as to what I’ve done to myself over the last 11+ years. Things seem to be all over the place. Even though all the Max folders are organized, when I look in Lr library, all the photoshoots seem to be combined at random. Thankfully, it looks like all of my imported files were “copied” using the regular copy feature. I have no idea what I’ve done or how to go about fixing it. I’d be willing to pay you an hourly fee to have a FaceTime or zoom meeting with me to see if you can guide me on the best way to attack this issue. Your video has helped me on how I will approach things moving forward. But I want to clean up my mess. Please message me if this is something you can help with.

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Great video, very useful and straight forward! Greetings from Athens, Greece!

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OMG THANKS SO SO MUCH THIS HELPED!!!

Great video with info answering questions I didn’t even know I had! - Perhaps an extension topic for another video, but I am lost when it comes to the Lightroom Classic Catalogs. Naming them, finding them, and when Adobe updates, why it tells me it moves everything for me and then I’m lost again. Thank you for all your help and patience!

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Hi and thanks for the info. Wonder if you can advice I had a catalog with images that I did not have the actual physical files but I could open them in Lr c. When update to version 12.5 I lost the images. When I open the same catalog with the new version , any advise how to recover them.?

thanks ! truly appreciated your suggestions

Thanks. Very thorough on this. Wish I could get a pic on my filmstrip into the active window and ten have access to all those tools. I can get a reference pic in, but not by dragging. I sub menu it into reference. Although my screen sez, drag and drop to active window from film strip, it doesn't work.

why can't I import photos from multiple locations into the same library?

That’s great but I don’t see any options files ie desktop,photos etc to import to ? Anyone help? 😮 thanks.

Very good release

Thanks for these tips. Quick question on file renaming. You say not to to avoid gaps in sequences from thrown out photos. But it's not clear to me how you prevent that by not renaming photos on import. I rename to prepend yyyymmdd_ to the original filename so if any photo gets accidentally moved to another folder, I know where it came from by going to the year/mm folder structure. Just wondering if you could explain what you meant.

Thanks for the video. I'm a new photographer and have seen a lot of things on purchasing LrC and Photoshop as a package deal. But the only thing I've been seeing are student teacher packages. Is this no longer a thing? Is LrC enough these days? Thanks again.

Capture One just released new support for DNG a few days after this video was posted, so in general, DNG is still the best archive format imo.

Excellent video and very clear breakdown and easy to follow advice. Many thanks, just subscribed 😊

Hi, quick question if I may I usually have my camera save both raw and jpeg on the card But when I import only the raw gets imported. Why would that be? Thanks Caula

Will copying to Lightroom classic allow me to continue post processing without the card inserted in the reader? . If I remove the card from the reader, it will tell me “file not found”. Thank you. I just got the Z9. I never had this issue with my dslr cameras.

When im in develop section , when hitting zoom in on the photo, it does not show in full resolution, it looks kind of low resolution, any help boss ? Regards

Um. Can you help me understand what is considered a "long" time to wait for the 1:1 option to load? What constitutes long? What timeframe?

Nice tips & tricks🙏

So what if none of this works but always did? I get a bar that looks like it wants to add to the catalog but instead it sits there like a useless modern day worker… and does nada. Tried off 3 separate external drives and the Mac.. files are Canon Raw and never a prob in A decade Preview opens it but logic won’t

I want to convert my dng files to the original RAW ( NEF ) files...how ?

can you import to a collection set directly from the card or does it need to be to a folder then take those images to a collection set

how can i add a single photo to a folder? I already tried right clicking and choosing "import to this folder" but the stupid thing creates a sub folder and puts a single image into the subfolder which is massively annoying. It does that even when create subfolder is unchecked,.

Hello, just starting in LRC. Half of my storage on my Mac is photos. I copied my photos library to an external HD. I then tried to import all of the photos and albums that were already created into LRC but even after checking off to include subfolders it says no photos found and there are no photos or albums under the HD on the left side panel. Help please!

Good tips , one queation I usually apply develop presets depending on the genre I ave been shhoting but they do slow down the import process, I would I bulk apply these after import if I did not do before importing ?

HELP! I shot a Nikon D5600. I am trying oto import my raw files (NEF files) from my sd card. I choose all my options, once I hit import it sits there as if its loading the photos for a very long time but nothing ever shows up (I chose embedded & sidecar, always have). So because nothing shows up I have to exit out of the top bar where i shows Copy and import and I get a window that pops up and says "Could not copy a file to the destination folder because it is not writeable" then shows the number of my photos. I have no idea why it is doing this. I have not changed anything different then what I have done in the past when importing photos. Help!

i have a weird issue where the edits are being saved in the original folder where the image is in. so if i have 2 pictures in a folder on a ssd that i put all folders in just for light room pictures. i also have a separate ssd for the light room catalog. if i start working on the 2 photos and i edit them with light room and Photoshop and other software it saves every edited photo in the same folder that the original is in. so if i edited a photo 3 times i have the original photo with 3 edited photos of the same original. i thought all this info was saved in the catalog, im so confused .

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That was really helpful. I've been using LR for years and wish I had seen this early on. If you import ALL, will it consume a lot more space? How do you recommend deleting the images you don't want to keep to make sure we get rid of all of the associated data from the catalog?

Not working..whenever i go to develop page it changes

BEEST!!!

Thanks for the tutorial M.D. Out of curiosity, do you have a strategy for what drives to uses and/or an archiving workflow for your imported images and video?

Great tips! I do have a question: Is there anyway to preview EXIF before I import a particular photo?

What about if you already have the pictures on a SSD folder and then you upload it too lightroom can you keep it in the same folder? without creating any duplicates

I need help and I hope I can explain it right.. I use LRC for a while, but I have the feeling my work flow is messed up. My photos are everywhere on different hdd. And I have also had too much photos imported than necessary (raw files which I want to delete) I bought a NAS recently for backup But here it is.. I bought also a 8 tb hdd and I want to keep that as my head hdd. now I am having everything on a external hdd but it's smaller. What can people tell me. Just start a new catalog on the 8tb and import everything? I hope I had explained this right. 😂

Pretty cool cheat

Did you import to you computer or to a hard drive?

This seems more complicated than copying images to your drive first then importing by “adding”. I make a folder structure year/month/sub folder if needed.