So in this second importing demonstration, I'd like to demonstrate importing from camera. So I'm just going to take the card out of my camera and I'm going to connect it to my computer via my card reader. And we're going to see what happens. So the first thing you'll notice when I connect the camera is up jumps, good old Apple photos of jumps, good old Apple photos, wanting to import my photos. Now, it may be a different application depending on your computer, but what you need to understand is that your computer might have more than one application capable of importing photos, not just Lightroom. So as a result, they all jump up and say Pick me Pick me.

So the first thing you need to do if you've got a Mac situation like this, is you need to go up here and you need to say look Apple photos. Next time you see my Nikon D 800 Please do not jump up and annoy me. So you turn that off and now Apple photos won't appear every time you connect your camera. You'll need to do that for each camera. If you've got multiple cameras, you'll need to do that again. So I got command q to quit, and we're out of there.

So now we're in Lightroom Import dialog. So you'll see Lightroom has also jumped up because it's seen the camera. So Lightroom automatically when it detects a camera, it tries to import the photos, as could other applications as well. So we took Apple photos out of the equation. Now we're in Lightroom. So as I said in my last video, importing is a three step process.

And when we connect the camera, step one is automatically done for you. So you can see Lightroom has seen these photos, seeing the camera and gone Oh, that must be for me, and Lightroom is run over to get them. So step one, select the source is automatically done for us. And you'll notice Lightroom is gonna also automatically eject the cat after importing which is nice. So step two, select the method. This gets a little bit easier as well when we're importing from camera because there's only two options Lightroom white let us add.

Remember in the last video we added because the files were already on the computer, in this case Lightroom white let us add because we must copy the files off the camera onto the computer first. Otherwise we'd run the risk of losing them or deleting them off the camera. So we are not allowed to add not allowed move must go ahead and copy. So copy is the solution. Now you'll notice these images are Nef files, that's Nick on electronic file and Nick on file format. There is another option and that is copy as dng.

So the DNG format is the Adobe standard raw format and the reason it exists is because Nikon have the NF and Canon have the CR two and many other camera brands have their own raw format. And every time they release a new camera, they change that raw format. So every time a new camera comes out Adobe have to update Lightroom to support that new camera. So this dilution Adobe came up with back in 2004, to be honest, was the DNG, the digital negative format and they said to camera manufacturers, if you shoot in this format natively, we won't have to update our software anymore. And some manufacturers did like Leica did Penn Tech's did the Hasselblad did for a while, but two big manufacturers didn't Nikon and Canon didn't. So that made the DNG never a fully implemented solution.

But Lightroom still gives you the ability to convert today and j after the fact. It's there's no big deal really, there's some small benefits if you convert to dng, you get a little bit of lossless compression, which means you fall gets a little bit smaller without any quality less. It's also a more compatible file. If you needed to hand the raw file off to somebody else and it's no doll I've no problem opening a dng whereas your native RAW file, they may not be able to open but in all honesty, it's not that big. A big deal. I used to always convert today and j as a rule these days on k So I generally do, I generally do, but it's, as I say, I don't worry too much about it.

So I'm going to convert to dmg right now just for the hell of it. So that's going to be done. So step three, got my file handling. In this case, I'm going to say standard size previews again, just like I did in the last input, because that'll be fun. I'm not going to build smart previews, because I'm going to copy these images onto my computer for now, so they won't be necessary. I'm going to say don't import suspected duplicates, because that's always a good policy.

I'm not going to say make a second copy, because that's not necessary right now either. But if I will often when I'm overseas, I will do that. I'll import onto my laptop, and I'll make a second copy onto my last C drive. But I won't do that right now. I'm not going to add directly to a collection a that because I'm not really using collections that way. So fall renaming is a new option now that I'm copying as opposed to simply adding, so I've got the ability to rename the files.

I generally don't bother renaming files, to be honest, but I'll do it now. Just For the demonstration purpose, so these templates are a good starting point, I like this template here, custom name and original file number. So that's a handy thing to be able to do, you can keep the original file number and just give it a custom name at the head. So as these images are all from Japan, I'm going to give it Japan 17 because it was a recent Japan trip, I'm going to leave my x file extension in lowercase. And you can see each image is going to be given Japan 17 as the prefix with the original file number maintained at the end. So there's that now apply during input as we know I can apply develop settings, which I'm not going to do right now.

I can apply my metadata template, which I'll always do David heard on photography that's just on by default, and I can apply the keywords Japan come up Asia, and I just think is these Okay, I tell it looks like it's all Kyoto. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. No good. So my socket cast would end there as well handsome tokina. So it's a mix of photos here is that happens because I've just put that together for this demonstration.

So I can't do Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, because there's actually a mix on here. So I'll just leave that at Japan and Asia for now. So the next option, the next option, and this is an option that we didn't have when we did our previous import. And that is, where do we want to copy these files to destination. And you'll see, by default, this is what Lightroom does. By default, it goes directly to your pictures folder, and it organizes your photos by date, organizes by date, and you can see what that's going to do.

It's going to create this quarter kind of cacophony of sub folders here, it's going to make a folder called 2017. And then it's going to make all these subfolders for the images contained within. So I just whipped together this bunch of outtake images to demonstrate this demonstration and put them on a card. So ordinarily, you probably wouldn't have quite as many separate data Coming in, but you might, you might if you'd shut a lot of stuff over, you know, over a long period. So this is like room's default behavior. A lot of people think there's no alternative to this a lot of people think you have to receive receive these folders, but you don't, you absolutely don't.

What you can do is say, no Lightroom don't organize them by date place, organize them into one folder, organize them into one folder. So now Lightroom is going to organize them all into one single folder, which is the pictures folder. Now, that's not ideal either because that means all these photos are just going to be tipped into the pictures folder. And that's going to be pretty messy as well. So I'd like them to be in a subfolder so you can see sub folder is checked, but it hasn't been named. So I need to name the sub folder.

So I'm going to go up here and I'm going to say please go into Japan. 17 so I make the sub folder, Japan 17. Now all my photos are going to go into this subfolder Japan 17 so much Data much easier, much better way to deal with things. So that's certainly the way I prefer to import, I prefer to create my folder, and then all my images will go straight into it. And then if I was to do another import tomorrow, and I wanted to go into the same folder, I could just leave these settings as is and it would automatically go into it. So that's the situation with the importing.

Now what I'm what I'd like to do, just for the hell of it, what I'd like to do is import this the way I normally wouldn't do, I'm actually going to remove the name of that folder. And I'm going to say Lightroom, organized by date, because I imagine many of you watching this video have probably unwittingly imported by date, and thought, Oh, what a mess. What a mess. How am I going to clean this up? How am I going to make sense of it? So I'm going to deliberately input in this kind of unhelpful way.

And I'm going to show you how we can resolve it after it's been imported. But let me be very clear, I would never import by date. I would never organize by date. I would always organize into one file. And create a sub folder, but I'm gonna deliberately organized by date just for your benefit right now. So let's just do a quick recap, three step process.

Step one, select a source happens automatically because I connected the camera. Step two, select a method, I'm going to copy I will have to copy because I'm coming from the camera, and I chose to copy as dng. For the small benefits of a little bit of lossless compression and compatibility. I'm sticking with my standard size previews, not importing some suspected duplicates, I'm renaming the files with and preserving the original number, just renaming the head to Japan 17. And I'm applying the keywords Japan and Asia. I'm applying my metadata template, no presets, and I'm going or develop settings rather.

And I'm organizing by date in the pictures folder, which is something I would normally not do and let's go ahead and do it anyway. Import and in they come. So here comes all my New bunch of Japan photos. And you can see already over here, in my folders tab, what a mess. What a mess. Look at all these sub folders coming in with these utterly unhelpful dates and names.

And gradually coming in, we should that comes in a little chunks, it seems so Bang, Bang Bang, as it's making the original photos. So we'll just give it a moment to come in, you can see these little tags in the bottom right hand corner indicating that the keywords are being applied. So a little keyword tag there. But other than that, these are just straight RAW files coming in with no further adjustments on them, and once the copy is complete, once the copy is complete, we'll see it's a little bit slower because it's converting to D and j as well. It's probably worth mentioning that does take an extra step to convert to the day actually now it's kind of counting convert today and j so it's imported all the images. Now there's a second step involved as it can convert to dmg But I can actually now that the images are all on my computer, the card has been ejected, I can reach in the back of the computer and just pull that card out without a problem, because the operations taking place now are all happening internally.

So what I'm going to do is take all of these images, if I click on 2017, you can see there's all these images here. But they're all spread across these sub folders, which is pretty messy business. So I can very easily click on one of these, say, take this one image here, I could drag and drop and put it into this folder here. If I wanted to consolidate these images, and now I've just taken that one out of there, put it in there, that folder is empty, and I can remove. So I could do that. But an even more efficient way to do it is this I'm going to click on 2017 which selects all 63 photos or at least makes all 63 photos visible.

I'm going to go Command A to select all. So now all my 63 photos across 123 410 or whatever subfolders are all selected. And I'm going to drag and drop them into the 2017 folder, say that and move. So now they're all in the 2017 folder. And all those ugly little sub folders are all now empty. All now empty.

With the exception of one It looks like one photo there has been a little bit uncooperative what's which one this one? What's your story, right? So let's just drag you across again and move and now it's across. Not sure what happened then, but not a problem. Now it's resolved. So hopefully that made sense what I would have been much easier for me to import into one folder during import, but I just showed you what to do if you've unwittingly imported by date.

That's how easy you can resolve that situation. So now I just select all these subfolders here, and I right click and choose remove. And when you remove a folder from Lightroom, that's an empty folder. It's not just removed From Lightroom, it actually gets deleted off your computer as well into the trash. So if there was images in it, Lightroom wouldn't do that. But if they if it's empty Lightroom will.

So I go remove, and they're all gone. And now I've got my 2017 folder, which I can again, right click and rename, and why don't I call it Japan 17 as I initially wanted to do and save, so I've certainly gone the long way about creating all my images in this one Japan 17 folder, but nonetheless, I've done it. And for final control, why don't I drag and drop Japan 17 and pop it into trouble photos, I get this message saying this will cause the corresponding files on disk to be moved. And it also says if you proceed, neither this move nor any change you've made prior can be undone. Now, that's pretty heavy. Talking really isn't it?

That's a bit serious. The reality is it can be undone. It just can't be undone with a command Z or control Z on Windows and that will undo Do them again. But when you move files from one folder to another command, Zed will not not undo it. So if I click move, you can see they've all moved across now. And if I go command Zed, it says, can't do that it goes back to a different source.

Sure, but it doesn't remove the photos to Japan. 17 is still sitting in travel photos. So there was a lot of stuff there to follow. I hope that was all making sense to you. We covered a lot of ground that was a second importing demonstration. We talked about not just how to copy from camera, but also the destination tab, which was very important.

And the difference between copying as by datas organizing by date versus organizing into one folder. So hopefully that made a lot of sense. And I guess if not, you can watch that video again, very easily count you. And as always, feel free to email me any questions and I'll be more than happy to add more videos covering topics that I may have not addressed that you would like me to address. So, thank you