Lets talk about Lightroom and importing your pretty pictures! Something to remember when looking at other peoples pictures is that you never know what they did during the post processing aspect – there’s a good chance the picture you see was not straight out of the camera and thats where Lightroom comes in! Today I’m going to explain how to import your pictures properly to lightroom. This may seem simple, but it’s important you import the pictures correctly so you can find them later. This is something I did not do correctly out of the gates!
The first step of course is going to be getting your pictures onto the computer. When going about this it really depends what type of computer you have, and what type of memory cards. Some computer have ports for an SD memory card and if your camera uses SD cards then you’ve got it made, all you have to do it slide that little card into your computer! Sometimes though, you may have to purchase a card reader that plugs into your computer and has different ports for different memory cards (that’s what I use). Lastly with some cameras there’s an option of plugging the actual camera into the computer.
After you have your memory card or camera plugged in you are going to open Lightroom and import them by simply clicking the important option in the bottom left had corner!
When importing it’s important to first select the destination your are saving these pictures (the folder they will be stored in) You click the arrow that I have circled in the screen shot below and then you either select the folder in which you want to save the pictures to, or create a new folder!
After you select the destination and click import at the bottom right hand corner your pictures will begin to load into Lightroom. It will take a little while for them to load but you can start the editing/picking process while this is going on. The first thing I do is go through the pictures and “pick” the ones that I actually want to edit – you don’t want to waste your time editing those photos where your eyes are closed or the picture isn’t in focus. To “pick” a photo all you have to do is click that photo in the viewing bar on the bottom and hit “P” then a little flag will appear on the picture! see Example below what the flag on the picture will look like.
After you have picked all your pictures you now just want to pull those pictures up to make the actual editing process easier. To do that go to wear it says filters off in the bottom right hand corner and you are going to click the arrow next to that and select flagged see screenshot below where the arrow is pointing.
Thanks so much for reading and we will come back next week with the basics of editing those pictures!
xo,
Deeana & Bess
PS Don’t forget to check out the other Photography Tips here!
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