Introduction to Adobe Lightroom CC - Pt 1 - Importing Images

hello and welcome to the Adobe twitch channel my name is Terry White worldwide design and photography evangelist for Adobe it's my pleasure to stream to you for the next hour on intro to Lightroom cc Lightroom for beginners this is gonna be an 8 part class you're watching part 1 right now if you're watching the video on demand thanks for watching the video on demand or replay on my youtube channel and we're going to be doing this in 8 parts twice a week Tuesdays and Fridays so we're here on Tuesday for the first part and this will go over the next four weeks twice a week so every Tuesday and Friday from 11 a.m. to noon Eastern Time I will be taking you through different stages of Lightroom all the way from beginning to end so at the end of the eight classes you should be pretty darn good at using Lightroom but we're gonna start off where most people have headaches and that is how to really get started how they manage their images how to manage the catalogs what's the catalog how to manage folders where should things be these are all the kinds of things that once you get that part right from the beginning the rest is pretty easy Lightroom is not really a hard program to use matter of fact that's why a lot of photographers like it because it is so easy but I encounter people time and time again and the first question they ask me is should I start over should I create a new catalog and import everything in is it possible to clean up my catalog because what it is is they started out making mistakes along the way in the very beginning and that start to cost them later on and when I say cost them it cost them in terms of missing images they can't find anything anymore images are all over the place some are in a folder on this drive somewhere in a folder on that drive some are still in a memory car they're just images are everywhere and they don't know where anything is and again this gets into a not really understanding how Lightroom works and B not understanding how life working works in the beginning and then it's too late because you've already put everything everywhere so Lightroom is very very like I said very easy to use and as long as you understand how it works from a term from the terms of catalogs folders collections and where your images are it's a piece of cake so let me get started and show you those things on our creative file Learning stream this is my second one the first one was ten parts on intro to photoshop so welcome to part 1 intro to Lightroom and be Duncan glad you're up early to watch me and Flo what's going on you feel guilty now a lot of people feel guilty but that's okay is this for desktop mobile or both well today is for desktop but I have a whole day scheduled for mobile so again remember it's 8 parts we will cover every aspect of Lightroom so including a whole episode on mobile alright and if you aren't watching the video on demand that is something what you just saw me do that you will see me do throughout the next hour because it is live which you can join us live and ask questions just like they're doing I look at the chat to make sure I'm addressing people that are alive because they're here so let's see make sure I got everything else all right looks good ok so let me switch over to my computer that way you guys can see what I'm doing and I'm in a Lightroom catalog I'm in my main Lightroom catalog I'm in the catalog I use every single day and I've got a hundred and eighty seven thousand eight hundred and forty one images in this catalog so this is this is it this is everything I do every image I work with everything I work on and I go to it and I use it every day throughout the day anytime I need to do anything with a photo whether I took the photo with a DSLR whether I took a video with my DSLR whether I took a photo with my iPhone point and shoot iPad screenshot whatever it is I manage it all here in Lightroom so when people ask well how many images can Lightroom handle they're really I don't think there really is a limit anymore it's really about makes sense and the other question I normally get is kidding do you have or can you have multiple catalogs you can and I used to be a very like pearl multiple catalogue person now I'm not anymore because back in the days where I used to have a lot of catalogs was because computers weren't as fast as they are now things would slow down considerably if you had too many images in the catalog and now it's just not the issue anymore also with Lightroom mobile you can only sync to one catalogue at a time so since I can only sync to one I'm gonna have one but let's not start with my existing catalog that's not as populated with everything I'm gonna start where you start from scratch with nothing so I'm gonna go up to my file menu I'm going to say new catalog and now we're gonna address one of the biggest questions I get in problems I see from scratch where should this catalog be by default Lightroom if you just launch Lightroom it's going to default to a catalog it creates and that catalog is going to be in your users pictures folder so if you're Windows or Mac that's where it's going to put the default catalog because that makes sense it's the pictures folder that's where you think to manage pictures so why not put the catalog there so there are some rules about the catalog number one it has to be on a local drive not a network drive and no you can't share a catalog with two people simultaneously there are some share options I'll talk about but the catalog is on a local job now it does not have to be your internal drive it can be an external drive it can be a partition it can be whatever but it has to be local not on a network server not on a file share not anything like that the pictures on the other hand can be on a network drive but the catalog itself has to be local now should you put it in your pictures folder why not doesn't hurt where you put it as long as you got enough room for it catalogs don't take up a ton of room because the pictures are what take up them for them and the pictures don't have to be with the catalog they could be anywhere but the catalog should be somewhere where you're always going to have access to it since I'm working off a laptop 99.9 percent of the time I want my catalog with me when I travel I don't want to even have to plug in an external drive to get to the catalog because the more work I have to do the less likely I am to use it so if I had to plug in an external drive every time I wanted to boot up Lightroom I wouldn't be booting up Lightroom that often so it stays on my internal drive now the only other possible place I would tell you you might want to consider putting the catalog instead of in the pictures folder my catalog is actually in my Dropbox folder why there why not to create a cloud folder why don't ya why there because I do have two computers I've got two laptops and some people have a laptop in the desktop some people have a desktop and another desktop some people have a computer at work you're at home two computers so when I'm on this laptop I want access to my catalog and when I go to my other personal laptop I want access to the same catalog I don't want to have to copy it over each time so by putting it in Dropbox and having the same Dropbox folder obviously synced on both computers as long as I'm disciplined enough to wait for it to sync that is the key then I have the beauty of going to the other laptop waiting for it to sync firing up Lightroom and there is my catalog because Lightroom is pointing to the same Dropbox folder in both computers we're not going to do that today but I just wanted to throw that out as an option because if you're just starting out then you need to consider your options upfront all right now why not the Creative Cloud folder two reasons number one I have a way more room on my Dropbox folder than I do on Creative Cloud I've got like a terabyte on Dropbox uncritical out most users have 20 gigs that's one or one reason actually is three reasons number two I've been using Dropbox for years I was using Dropbox before there was a creative cloud folder so that's the original reason second reason is limited space third reason is and this is more of a just the way Creative Cloud works every time you make a change to a file in the Creative Cloud folder Creative Cloud is trying to protect you by archiving a copy of that file keeps archives of things for two weeks since the since the catalog can change every time you launch it and every time you do something in it that's our kyv is gonna start to grow and what you could end up doing is literally running out of Creative Cloud folder space because of the archive now you can go to the web and delete the archives you can delete the old ones and manage it but then you having to manage it so that's just yes it would work in the Creative Cloud folder and yes as a good Adobe citizen I should be putting things there but the Lightroom catalog just isn't one of them it's just not as practical as putting it in Dropbox that's all would it work absolutely and as long as you don't run out of space works perfectly same thing it will sync up to two computers but then you have to manage that archive that's the only real other reason so with that said hang on I see a question here it's having over 22,000 is having over 22,000 images a possible reason why your lightroom have crashes and you have to force quit every time I have a hundred eighty-seven thousand so no that should not be a reason twenty two thousand really not much so I would look for other things other reasons other causes for your crashes the number of images you have is not the problem alright unless you have a very very old system okay alright so I gave you my Dropbox feel we're not gonna do it today but just know that that is an option okay so here we go what do you call your catalog whatever you want if you notice at the top mine is called Twp Lightroom cc Twp hat or - Lightroom cc and the dot LR catalog is put in by automatically so TWP Terrier photography whatever you want to call you call it my catalog whatever you want to call it the name is irrelevant it does not matter what you call it I think if you don't create one it just caught like if you don't create a new one it just calls it by default Lightroom catalog it does not matter what the name is so I'm gonna call it TWP twitch that way I'll know that what this one's for all right so we'll call it the Twp twitch catalog create now you notice what Lightroom just said I'm closing your existing catalog and so I can create and open up this new one because Lightroom yes I know it's 2016 but like I'm still only works with one catalog at a time I wish it could open up multiple catalogs but now I don't wish it as much since I'm only really working with one catalog at a time anyway so it's going through it's doing this creation process it's creating a new catalog it closed my existing one now it's opening up the new blank empty one and let's give it a second or two to finish that process or not like room where's my catalog oh I see it's over there it's on the other screen all right let's pull it over there it is it just for whatever reason decided to open it up on my other monitor all right so we got the catalog here I'm gonna go ahead and size it a little bit better so we can see more of it all right and here we are Lightroom from scratch empty blank nothing in it it doesn't know anything about any photos it doesn't know anything about anything it's your empty catalog so what's a catalog Lightroom for those of you who are techie enough to think about it in this term is a database it's a database of metadata it's a database of links to images your images are never in Lightroom they never have been they never are in Lightroom they're in the folders on your drives wherever you originally brought them in from Lightroom does not store images it links to those images it stores metadata about those images but it does not actually store the images so it's up to you to decide where images are going to be and then bring them and then reference them in likely or import them and see the problem is we say the word import that that's what makes people think oh it's my what my images are in Lightroom now I can delete them out of this folder no they're still in that folder Lightroom is just looking at them in that folder don't delete them out of the folder but import simply means look at this folder bring in these images so I can see them in Lightroom reference them work with them but they're always always always 100% of the time in a folder on your drive they're never actually in Lightroom okay so with that said no or they never actually stored in library motion say so with that said we're going to look at two ways to bring in images we're going to get to a third way another episode called tethering but your images are either in one of two places right now they're either on a memory card because you're a photographer and you just did a shoot or you've already copied them to the computer and they're on a drive either way this will work just the same it'll work just fine so let's do the memory card option first and open up my sample memory card we've got some images here I'm gonna stick it into a card reader connected to my computer and sometimes this works sometimes it doesn't so I mean sometimes Lightroom will recognize the images though the the card and bring up like it's doing right now and sometimes it won't and the reason usually that it doesn't is something else grabbed it so if you were in a situation where you put in a cart and the photos app came up which frustrates most people because no I don't want the photos app I want Lightroom if the Photos app grabbed your card first don't get pissed and just quit it there's one thing you need to do before you quit it in the upper left corner of the Photos app it'll show the name of the car and there's a checkbox or I think a option that says don't open the Photos app again when I put this card in do that first then quit the Photos app and then you can just hit import in Lightroom and it will show you that card and it will never launch the Photos app again on that card now Apple used to have an option to just not open the iPhoto back in the day of iPhoto just don't open iPhoto when I stick in any card but for whatever reason they decided in their infinite wisdom to not have that option anymore so now you have to do it card by card all right but once you do it you're there all right so at this point I'm now um hold on for a minute here I'm not seeing questions over there but I am seeing questions over here so let me uh let me refresh my chat is not refreshing on this device but I see it refreshing over there so let me get these first let me see if I make sure I didn't miss any questions we got here alright someone's asking answering the question about 22,000 images can I change the change my catalog folder location along the way yes you can change you can because once you quit Lightroom your catalog is literally in a folder you can move that folder and all of its contents to anywhere you want so you can move it between drives you can move it to the Dropbox folder after the fact so yes just quit Lightroom first 187 thousand images oh my god yes still waiting to see Apple crash reporter people back to me okay what else what else what else how did I get to work for Adobe I applied for a job 20 years ago yep I hate the photos out I hate that well I'm not a fan I thought was that period but I hate when it launches when I don't want it yeah the Photos app is just Apple has always done that weird thing where they import the photos in their apps and make copies and all that in weird places and thankfully we don't have to deal with that okay all right I think I've got everything else and now they're starting to come up over here okay great okay so now I'm at the import screen and what just remember that this import screen is a left-to-right workflow so we start over here on the Left where it says I'm bringing them in from a card called Nikon d810 yep that's great and I want to eject that card after import yes because that once I import them I don't need the car on my desktop anymore I don't need it mounted in my computer which by the way a little bit of trivia this option thanks to yours truly back when Lightroom was first introduced this was not an option and I was showing Lightroom though a family member and they were saying okay so how'd I get my card out and I was I said oh you go to the operating system and unmount it there and as I was saying and I realized how dumb that was so I went to the Lightroom team and said guys can we have an export or eject option and they put it in so I take credit for one feature in Lightroom that was it all right so we got our our thumbnails here and of course we can see some right off the bat that were like the flash didn't fire we can see some mishaps here so I can uncheck any ones that I don't want I don't let those two frames I'm not gonna be able to use them I can see they're bad right off the bat and there may be other ones that are bad out-of-focus blurry eyes closed whatever and I can uncheck those too if I notice them but at this point I see them right now so I see those two are useless so why even bother wasting time copying those to the drives now you can also if you want to check out an image up close you can go into the loop view here and you can see an image maybe your that's in doubt and there are lots of problems with these images dark what white balance is off but those are things I can correct I'm not worried about that right now I'm just trying to find images that are trying to take care of images that I know I don't want so for example here's one where she's kind of looking down not in a good way so let's go ahead and uncheck that one why waste the space only to delete it later or at the time so whether you do that process now or do it later doesn't matter other than if you do it now you're not wasting the time copying the images in okay so once you've made your choices checked or not then the next thing becomes how do you want to handle those images now over the years Lightroom's gotten a lot smarter about this before it used to offer all four options which didn't make any sense from coming from a card why would I want to just add them from a card and then I take the card out of the computer then there they're missing so I would never want to do that so now that's grayed out you can't choose it but now you have a choice between copy and copy as DNG if you're only working with JPEGs then just use copy you don't have to worry about DNG if you're working with RAW files or raw and JPEGs then you want to have a choice here you have a choice of copy or copy as DNG the copy is DN g DN g stands for digital negative and what this will do you notice that these are any F files that's because I shoot with a Nikon that's Nikon's proprietary RAW format just like canons proprietary RAW format of co2 and Sony's is a R something whatever it is but every end I've worked with Olympus I work with all kinds of formats and you're off right or to that camera manufacturer DN g is an open proposed standard by Adobe so if you think about it this way these are my lifelong memories that I never want to not be able to open you never think about that with the JPEG right you can open up JPEG in anything from here on out it doesn't matter what company comes and goes doesn't matter what software comes and goes you know you'll always be able to open up a JPEG but with a camera manufacturer this particular RAW format if you don't know that that RAW format is going to be supported forever so DNG since it's open anyone can write in a application to work with D NGS many companies do I never have to worry about my RAW files not being able to be open someday and if you think that won't ever happen think Kodak Kodak used to make raw formats Polaroid raw formats God they don't exist anymore at least the old ones don't and so you're now at the mercy of every other company that you hope will continue supporting those formats if you shot with those cameras ten years ago and you still kept them in those original raw formats you better hope ten years from now that you've got software that can open them up because if you can't you're done whereas in dmg and JPEG I can so I always convert to dmg when I have the opportunity all right so can copy as dmg what it will do is copy all the image in Lightroom cc what it does now is copy all the images first and then it will do the conversion to D ng in the background it used to do it as it as it went along which would take longer to do the import all right next I think so we're going from left to right we're bringing them in from eject when you're done these are the ones I want this is how I want it done then over here how you want them handled and where you want them on your drive this is the next big thing so let me check my drive for a second I know I was okay I'm good I was may have been low on space because I had copied a whole bunch of other stuff to my drivers today but I got plenty of space to us okay so we're good now this is I can't stress the importance of this option enough this is one of my favorite options it's been here since lightroom 5 and that is hypothyroid is not can you okay hold on hold on hold on let's do this legendary checkbox yes let me make sure I go back make sure I didn't miss anything the other guy was streaming with with creativity 360s Cory Barker so just Google Cory Barker and you'll find him alright maybe sure I'm not missing anything else is it possible that you may do something unwanted to the catalog well sure it's possible you can always do something unwanted to anything anything if you mess with it long enough or bad enough you can mess it up so you'd have to be more specific can you mass resize a folder or can you mass resize a folder image sizes in Lightroom I don't know what that means but yes you can mass export out images into different sizes the rest in peace' code I can pull alright yep well this will these be available to watch later yes they will Terry white TV and the video on demand here at the twitch channel on twitch.tv slash Adobe / profile alright so Bill smart previous this came out in Lightroom 5 and it is my single that was like my favorite feature of Lightroom 5 because what this finally allowed us to do was build a preview of an image that stays with the catalog not the images that's a fraction of the size of the image so that if I take my laptop somewhere with me and the images are at home still on a different Drive I can still work with them I can manage them in the library module I can develop them in the develop module or I can even export them out the smaller sizes 2048 pixels on the longest dimension but I'd be able to even export them out so smart previews is a must for me I always always always use this okay don't import suspected duplicates this is important when doing it from a card because what you're doing is you take these shoot put the card in import some 24 in this case you take the card out you don't erase the card you put the card back in the camera you shoot some more when you come back and put that card in again what you don't want is the first 24 images you already put those in so don't import suspected duplicates means it will only import the new ones that it thinks are new now this is one I don't use it's a good option I just don't use it make a second copy - this is your one time backup from a Lightroom import perspective what this is says is I'm out in the field these are important images to me they're on the card I want to bring them into Lightroom so I can start working with them but I'm so paranoid right now and you should be that I want to back them up to a second drive at the same time so if you say make a second copy - and then choose the folder and the drive where you want the second copy it'll import into your main drive and import a second copy into your second drive like an external thumb drive whatever and that way you'll have that second copy to use this is a new option in Lightroom cc add to collection so that's we'll talk about collections later I'm not gonna do it now alright so I don't use the make second copy I just don't because I backup other ways but that is an option it is a nice option have alright so next develop settings it's too soon to talk about that so we're gonna leave it undone but metadata we are going to talk about this you can make your own metadata template what this template is is it just puts in metadata about you or your images but mainly about you into every single image you import so for example you know your camera does exit data so for example if I go edit presets here your camera you you know like most cameras now you can especially I DSLR you can put your name into metadata you can put your initials that's about it you can put a photographer maybe but this allows you to go much much further so for example if I go to mine I can say that it's Terry whitey copyrighted I can put an ad I could put my website in I can put all kinds of information that I want to be in every single photo I bring in so you can make these templates and you see I have some for other people because sometimes I'm at events and I'm bringing in photos for that other people have taken so I want to give them credit on their own events so like Jason Levine and I travel sometimes on tour so when Jason gives me images I import I use his metadata template so that all the metadata for his images get put in at the same time alright so anyway we've got this all in and I just basically have it chosen every time I bring this in now keywords we're gonna get into a whole episode on keywords so we're not gonna do it now and then last but not least and this is the most important part of everything I've just shown you this is where this is what really counts where they're on that card right now where do I want them to be on my computer because I'm going to take that card out and eventually that card is going to get reformatted so where do I want them to be copied as DNG s2 on my computer this is the most important option here so you can tell it what folder what drive everything you can manage all that down here so right now by default they're just going to go in my pictures folder but they're right now by default they're gonna go in there in a bad way she's going to go loose in my pictures folder so I absolutely want to put them in a subfolder in the pictures folder and I can call that subfolder whatever I want I can call it Gina because that's who this is Gina J alright so bringing in Gina's pictures I'm putting them in a subfolder that it's going to create for me on the fly call Gina J in the pictures folder so this is where you're telling it under destination where you want everything to go organized and this is thank god this is now the default Lightroom used to default to by date and I never ever ever understood people that do this let's say you go out and you go out and shoot for the week so you shoot some images on Friday Saturday Sunday if you organize by date what it will do is bring in all the images let's say you bring in one cart of images from each day the whole cart and it'll put them in folders not by name not by a great weekend and in Texas it'll put them in as date names so they'll be Friday you know May 1st and Saturday whatever and Sunday whatever and I'm thinking to myself when would I ever remember what I took on a particular day unless it was a special anniversary date other than that I'm never gonna remember what vote what images are in which folder by date so I never ever ever recommend this I can't think of a certain I can't think of a single situation where I would prefer this so into a single folder by the name of the event by the name of the person by the name of the party by the name of the thing that you photographed I'll always remember Gina I may not remember which photos are in the Gina J folder but I'll remember oh I know Gina J so if I'm looking for her pictures chances are they're gonna be in that folder so that I always do it that way you know Sammy's first birthday party if that's your kid's name so that way hey I know I don't know what I don't remember what pictures are in there but it's his first birthday party guess what that's a good place to start okay so always do it into one folder by whatever name you want to give that folder and Lightroom will create it on the fly let me just check for I see Victoria answering lots of things here alright okay so now let's go ahead and do the actual import and I can answer more questions or talk while it's doing it cuz it's gonna take a few minutes to do those 20 some-odd photos and make sure everything else is good so let's get back up those smart previews don't make a second copy into a subfolder go so now this process will be as fast as your card your card reader your computer so there's no and of course the size of the images bigger RAW files take longer than smaller RAW files and smaller JPEGs so this process there is no set amount of time that this should take or not take because it's dependent on all of those factors you're using a slow card or slow card reader guess what it's going to copy slower because right now it's copying all these images to that Gina J folder which is right here now by the way in Lightroom in that drive so it's even telling me what drive it's on so Gina J in this folder on this drive okay and it's doing them a you know a few at a time before it shows them to me and this is by the way a background process so here's a new thing or here's another thing about Lightroom whenever you see a progress bar up here in the upper upper left hand corner that is not a what we call a modal product or modal dialog meaning you're not prevented from doing things at this point you can click on a photo you can go into the develop model you can start working on that photo you start adding keywords that photo you start doing anything you want without having to wait for the rest to come in any process that's happening up here you do not have to wait unless you're waiting for the results but you do not have to wait for that to finish before you can continue your work in Lightroom that is totally up to you but it's bringing all in thus far and now this is going to stop and it's going to start another process so give it a second finish this and here comes the other processes actually two more so what is it doing right now it's converting to D and G and I forgot what the second one was saying uh you can use it up and if I click you can usually go up here and find out what the other process is actually doing I think it's uh I can't remember it's something to do with the metadata I'm sure I was doing them both up keep clicking away from it because it didn't pop up fast enough but whatever that second process is they're both background operations you do not have to wait for them it will give you the name if you're patient enough to wait because it's trying to do it at the same time so building smart pre used Oh building smart previews okay so it's building smart previews and doing the conversion of DNG at the same time so that process will just happen and again it's happening in the background you do not have to wait for it so you can start to see the difference so this one is a DNG because it's already done that conversion and it'll just go one by one and finish those but that's an nef file so it has not done that conversion yet and again I don't have to wait for this I can click on any photo and do whatever I want if I want to look at that photo larger I can look at that photo larger I just hit the letter F to go fullscreen and now I'm looking at that photo fullscreen I don't have to wait for anything to finish as long as it's happening up here I'll let me check for questions alright we've got a few questions here you're checking which date times hours you took the photos well you could do that any time in Lightroom just by going up to the metadata options up here so you can always find which date time or whatever you can also find it on the individual photos here there it will be listed in the metadata here so you can see that these photos were taken way back in 2010 because they're my sample photos I use all the time and I can see all the exit data about those photos so I don't organize my folders if that's what you're getting at just to see when keywords are crucial we'll talk about that what else which color space do I recommend for storing files nowadays srgb Adobe RGB or Perl RGB this is my take on two things yeah the only ask one question I'm going to answer to whether it's color space or bit depth whether you know 16-bit 32-bit 8-bit or actually 16 and eight or color space for me it makes more sense to always keep things at the highest level and work down if I ever have to as opposed to bringing everything in the srgb 8 bit and wishing I had more later because you know usually some of those decisions are permanent when you switch an image from 16-bit down 8-bit you then it's an 8-bit image you can't ever go back to 16-bit and get that data back same thing for srgb vs Adobe RGB or pro photo or pro whatever it is from Perl RGB Perl RGB is going to be the biggest color gamut srgb is going to be the lowest color gamut once I convert everything in srgb I'm never getting those colors back so I'm absolutely keeping everything on 16-bit Perl RGB so that I can always have the best image that my camera took so raw pro RGB 16-bit that's the best image your camera can produce so why would you ever take it down for storage for you know some for example maybe bring it in the Photoshop and some filter still works in 8-bit and you got to convert that image to 8-bit at that time fine but your original images that you're storing will always be the higher higher quality all right see if I missed another one here what do I do when I get the message one or more channels are too bright when I'm using the white balance for colors like pure aqua or cyan well white balance is not for those colors so that might be why you're getting that message but if you're talking about the white balance eyedropper you have to remember that the white balance eyedropper is for finding levels of gray not colors and it will adjust your image accordingly we're going to do it on one of these images as a matter of fact because all of them I can look at these images and tell the white balance is off and I wouldn't click on the color purple or yellow sweater I'd click on the gray background which should be actually that's probably should be a white background so that's why you're getting that message because you're trying to click on the wrong thing all right no problem you're welcome for the prompt response all right okay so back to our store I mean again those processes are happening in the background I'm not having the way I just took a pause to answer questions we've got 15 minutes left so now let's talk about another way to import images since that's what today's first episode is about we we covered a lot of ground but not everyone is going to import things from a card sometimes or in cases where you're just starting Lightroom but you've already had images on your drive for years you're not gonna put them back on cards and put the carts back in you're gonna import them wherever they are so for example if I go out to my operating system I've got some samples here let's go to my desktop and I got a messy desktop but that's okay I've got some sample images here that I've been I've been playing around with I brought over from a file server just like these old Gina images I've got some older images or some other images here and and actually I can probably start tossing some of these here let's toss well we can certainly toss this one what I mean by toss is I don't need it on my desktop anymore because it's on the card it's on my server it's on now copied into the pictures folder I just don't need that duplicate it was a duplicate alright so anyway I've got this Auckland HDR from my last trip to Auckland and and all the ones called training are because I'm using these images for training so if I put this folder where I want this folder to live I don't want it to live on my desktop because my desktop is not for my pictures my desktop is for temporary things that I should be throwing away when I'm done with them but anyway I've got this folder on my desktop of images that I got from my camera at some point now I want to import those images into Lightroom and I want I don't want to do it from the desktop because that's not where these are gonna be from now on so first and foremost if you're going to import from folders put your folders where you want them to live in other words I want them on this Drive I want them to stay here forever or for a long time at least and that's where they're gonna live and if I need to move them to a different Drive later we'll talk about that we're going to talk about that in one of the later episodes but for right now I should start where I want these images to be so if this were real life right now I will and it is right now I want these images in my pictures folder so I'll put them in my pictures folder because that's where they should live now open up my pictures folder and in my pictures folder there's the Auckland folder and in the Auckland the Auckland folder is where I now want to bring these in the Lightroom so I can either a go back to Lightroom click import navigate to this folder and bring them in or one of my favorite ways is just simply drag this on to the Lightroom icon in my dock when I do that it'll just automatically take me to the Lightroom import screen and it'll give me different choices because these images are already on my drive so notice what it did not give me it does not give me by default copy or copy as DNG now we're in the move or add category so I'm not really sure I prefer this as a default but right now the default is moved in other words do you want to move these two because it I guess a lot of people are doing it from the wrong spot in the first place I've had I done it from the desktop I would want to move to the pictures folder I just did it up front so I could actually have Lightroom move them to the folder I want them in even though they're already on the drive so that is actually an okay default for beginners but what I'm gonna say is no no I've already put them where I want them to be I just want to add them to lightly and notice when I click at all that destination stuff goes away because they're already on the drive there's no reason to move them anywhere else you didn't say move so the destination stuff goes away do you want to build smart previews absolutely are you getting them from this spot on the left side because it's a left-to-right workflow yep are there any that you want to uncheck you can but they would still stay in the folder they just wouldn't brought in the light room and everything else is good so do I want to bring in 21 photos and build smart previews when you're done yep just do it import and watch what happens well two things happen I'll talk about this dialog box in a minute number one they come in way faster because there's nothing to copy there's no data being transferred from one device to another they're already on the drive they just come over done boom no problem now what this means the reason this came up is because I shot these images in Auckland with a GPS device attached to my camera so I haven't I have a device for my Nikon camera that picks up the coordinates of where I was when I shot these so what Lightroom is asking hey do you want to enable automatic lookup because it's a privacy thing do you want it to tell you what city and country and all that is in and I absolutely do so I enable it it's a one-time thing once you enable it it's done now it's building smart previews and it's looking up the location of 19 photos and it's doing all of that in the background okay so I've got and yes you can go away okay so those images were coming in so now notice what's going on here on the left-hand side I have the Auckland folder and the Jeana J folder and building some our previews in the background I can go back to jeana's folder and work with jeana's images or i can go to the auckland folder and work with the Auckland images there are two different folders on my drive where they live they're not in Lightroom Lightroom did not touch the images themselves it did not import them in or move them to some copy them to some weird space they're in folders wherever you want those folders to be on whatever Drive you want those folders to be can you import images from a NAS or network drive sure the catalog can't be on a network drive but the images can be as long as you got read and write permission to whatever source it is you can import them from that source can you import them from a memory card and have them stay on the memory card yes you can and yes that be dumb because you're gonna take that memory card out of the computer at some point and then if you erase that car those images will be orphaned in other words you'll be have missing links the images that Lightroom doesn't know about anymore and Lightroom will just give you a big question mark on the image saying hey I don't know where this image is anymore but as long as you build a smart preview actually you would be able to still work with it it just wouldn't be the full res anymore okay speaking of that let me go to this real quick and show you one of Gina's because Gina's finished and the other ones didn't yet so if I click on this image I should get I should yeah there we go let's go set should get a second display here notice it says original plus smart preview this will say one of three things it'll say original smart preview or original plus smart preview those are the only three or aren't and I'm sorry for things missing so for things that will possibly say up here original means Lightroom can see the folder where that image is and it is it's got a connection to that image you can actually see it smart preview only means that the original image is no longer attached or the drives not attached anymore but you both the smart preview so you can work with that image you can develop it you can add keywords you can do everything and when you connect up the drive with that original image to it all that information will be written or if it needs to be written to the actual file which it usually does it original plus smart preview best of both worlds it means it sees the actual file and I built this Mari you missing is obvious you didn't build a smart preview and the image is not there meaning the drive is not there you move the folder you did something in the operating system that Lightroom doesn't know about and if you did that there are ways to correct it you can find the missing images but the the lesson here is don't mess with the images in the operating system don't go to those folders and rename things and move things around and drag and drop and move them to a different drive in the operating system we're going to learn over the next eight classes how to do all of that management in Lightroom the minute you got start messing around in the operating system you're asking for a headache here in library you're saying I'm going to screw you up Lightroom I'm going to do stuff behind your back and I'll have to fix it later that's what you're saying so stay away from the operating system with those folders once you brought those folders in the library okay can you link to your Dropbox folders on your computer in Lightroom you can link to any folder that Lightroom can see yes including Dropbox folders but keep in mind if you move the stuff in Dropbox or you whatever and Dropbox and you don't do it in Lightroom first then Lightroom's gonna have a broken monk okay all right so that answers that building smart previous on the Ocwen photos let me see if there's anything else that I want to talk about because when I do collections today we're gonna do a whole thing on collections later I just want to talk about anything else okay so here's one more thing about drives because we only have five minutes four minutes five minutes left before the next string the next special mobile illustration stream notice that we're here let me show it to you this way by go out to my operating system my hard drive is actually participant partitioned into two drives there's a drive called hard disk and there's a drive call or a petition called expanse and there's something called server there's actually have a file server to notice that Lightroom doesn't see those other drives there they're the operating system sees them they're mounted why doesn't Lightroom see them because Lightroom only sees what it's using it does not keep track of drives that it's not using so if I were to import a folder from either one of those other two drives then it would show up here there would be one called expanse there'd be one call server if I import it things from those other sources now we're going to again talk about this towards the end of the classes here like I think it's the last class actually when you're done with everything and you want to move the Jeana J folder to a different drive you want to archive it you want to move it off your precious space of your internal laptop drive how can you do that if the drives not even showing so I'm going to show you a way to do that when we get to that part of the class so just know that just because you don't see a drive here doesn't mean that Lightroom can't use it it just means that you haven't used it so Lightroom doesn't keep track of things you haven't used all right all right let me answer any questions last in the last three minutes here if your computer or lightroom says you can't import due to a lack of space should you delete photos from the hf or do you mean HD your hard disk to make room well let's say I was bringing in from that car remember I checked space real quick first just to make sure I knew I had enough space on this drive if I didn't do that and I didn't have enough space and lightroom said sorry can't import to this drive because you're not enough space then i can't tell you what you need to delete that's up to you i can't tell you know yeah go delete pictures because then you'll be mad at me if you delete the wrong ones you have to go make room on that drive however you need to make room in other words i can't tell you what to delete you have to decide that on your own but what that simply means is whatever it is you're copying off the car you don't have enough room on that drive that you're trying to copy to you can use a different drive you can use an external you can use a different partition whatever for the images but whatever drive you're copying to if lightroom tells you now I have enough room it's because you don't have enough room you have to go make that decision on how to get more room on your own whether it's get rid of music get rid of movies get rid of documents get rid of that move them to a different drive whatever it takes that's up to you I can't make that call for you but yes that is what it means no problem you're welcome about setting the stream for the amount of images you should have and we got like one less than a minute left before I have to jump off so I'm gonna go ahead and do my wrap up real quick what I want to say is thanks guys for watching the stream thanks for joining me here on my learning stream and we'll catch you in the next one you guys probably want to stick around one is interested in anything about mobile and mobile illustration because the mobile illustration guys are going to take it up next take care thanks for watching and we'll catch you on the next one we'll catch you on Friday same time same channel Cheers

Channel: Terry White

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Length: 55min 58sec (3358 seconds)

Published: Tue May 03 2016