Discover how to take your first steps with Adobe Lightroom and explain how to import photos in Lightroom 5, how to add metadata and then organise your images into collections.
Lightroom enables you to take the tedium out of keeping your photos organised, by providing easy ways to add keywords to photos as you import them.
This means you can keep images organised into collections based on everything from the subject to the ISO used.
You may well have thousands of photos that are scattered across numerous folders on your PC, as well as on external drives and memory cards.
Lightroom gathers images from multiple folders and external hard drives and stores a link to them in its Catalog, regardless of their locations.
Lightroom will also keep your photos organised in a variety of ways. In addition to creating themed collections, for instance, you can even set up Smart Collections, which automatically collect files that meet specific criteria.
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Sort it out
In this Adobe Lightroom tutorial, we'll show you how to hit the ground running by importing images into Lightroom; adding metadata to them so they're easy to find when you need them in the future; and gathering specific photos into Collections, so that you can display a small Collection in the Grid view instead of having to scroll through thousands of thumbnails in the main Catalog.
How to import and organise photos in Lightroom: steps 1-3
01 Choose a source
Lightroom collects files from a variety of sources and displays them in its Catalog. After launching Lightroom, click Import and a new dialog box will appear. In the Source section, browse the files and choose a source such as your camera (if it's plugged in) or a folder of photos on a hard drive.
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02 Tick or untick?
The assets in the selected source will appear as thumbnails – use the slider to increase the size. All files are ticked automatically. You can tick Uncheck All and manually tick the thumbnails of the photos that you want to import. If you hold down Alt, the buttons will change to enable you to tick video files.
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03 Copy or Add?
If you're importing files from a memory card, click Copy. This will copy them to a chosen location on your hard drive and import the copies into Catalog. If you're importing files from a folder on an internal or external hard drive, click Add. This will add them to Catalog without physically moving or copying them.
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