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Chapter 4: Importing photos More Help topics “Importing photos into Lightroom: Basic workflow” on page 5
Import photos into a catalog Set import and file-handling preferences You set import preferences in the General and File Handling panels of the Preferences dialog box. You can also change preferences in the Auto Import Settings dialog box (see “Specify Auto Import settings” on page 39) and in the Catalog Settings dialog box (see “Change catalog settings” on page 55). 1 From the Lightroom main menu, choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Lightroom > Preferences (Mac OS). 2 In the General preferences, do any of the following:
• To allow the import dialog box to open automatically after connecting a camera or memory card reader to your computer, select Show Import Dialog When A Memory Card Is Detected. If this option is not selected, Lightroom does nothing when a camera or memory card is connected. (You can still choose File > Import Photos.)
• To not use the folder names that your camera creates, select Ignore Camera-Generated Folder Names When Naming Folders.
• If you capture raw + JPEG photos on your camera, select Treat JPEG Files Next To Raw Files As Separate Photos to import the JPEG as a standalone photo. Otherwise, Lightroom treats the duplicate JPEG as a sidecar file. When this option is selected, both the raw and the JPEG files are visible and can be edited in Lightroom. When deselected, the raw file appears with the raw file extension and +jpg. Press Ctrl+R (Windows) or Command+R (Mac OS) to also view the JPEG file. 3 In File Handling preferences, do any of the following:
• To specify how DNG files are imported, specify options in the Import DNG Creation section. For more information on DNG files, see “Convert photos to DNG” on page 63.
• To determine how periods and forward slashes are used to separate keywords, select options in the Reading Metadata area.
• To specify which characters and spaces in the filenames of imported photos are illegal and to determine how they’re replaced, choose from the menus in the File Name Generation area.
More Help topics “Specify Auto Import settings” on page 39
File formats Lightroom supports the following image file formats:
Last updated 10/20/2010