Sorry, this is like rain. It's open. It's a blank page, you've got to start with a new catalog or an existing catalog that you've been running already. But you must know exactly where Lightroom wants to put your images. That'll be able to do that you've got to see some information and a screen like this, the informations all hidden. At either side, you've got a nation that has the open app is the Import button, that you've got a bunch of other ones that I usually keep adding because they clutter your screen out too much.

And they're pretty easily accessible for different types of information, different ways of seeing the same thing. And you've got the little toggles on each of them to open and close them. But the why I generally do it is by using the speed keys. 567 and eight, seven and eight. If seven and eight are the ones I use the most that's for the left and right hand side. So go ahead and click the Import button at the bottom of the left hand side information back.

And you'll see that I've got my D 100 plugged into the computer already, and that's going to copy them to the C drive but I don't want to do I wanted to copy to where I store my raw files, which is on my photo drive. So you've just got to click the right place and I will show up in a minute that just takes a little bit of time to connect with the camera. I find this easier than connecting with a memory card reader. Sometimes have a problem specially with CIF CAD so the pins and then get beat I'm just a bit of a nightmare. So these days, I'm using just a cable plugged into my camera and connected to the computer. And you've got different options to copy to copy dng or to add a few photos are already on, say an external hard drive and you don't want to move them, you'll add them or they're already on your hard drive, you just want to add them to Lightroom.

Otherwise, they'll copy. And so in this case, they'll copy over from the camera car, the car that's in the camera, and they'll copy onto the hard drive where I want them when I import. So you can see there, that that's where they're going to be stored in there, clicking import, that'll begin to copy all of those images over on the hard drive and build the indexing system and the thumbnails and everything else in Lightroom cc See that, that the the timeline, that'll just keep importing and adding those you've got time to, to get up and go and making coffee or something else such a goal. A lot of lot of photographs, I've got over 300 photographs that are important from my cab today from the shoot that I did down at the markets the other day. So that'll just take a little bit of time. As the photos are important, you won't be able to see them really clearly.

Take some process to build the thumbnails and to show sharp thumbnails. I've got the thumbnail size, it pretty small here so I can see everything as it comes up on screen, but not really clearly. To do that, to see them clearly. You've got to be a bit patient and just wait for them to all finish importing. That's really important all the way through. The species of beginning stages.

It's easy to be negative, but it's really important to view your work positively to have a constructive and positive attitude to the multiple shots that you're going to see coming up on screen. And now it's really easy for a lot of people to be discouraged when they see how many bad shots I've made that think positively think constructively and look at your photographs with an eye to choosing the best ones. And that's what this exercise is all about. choosing the best shots that you've made and not being discouraged by the mistakes that you've made. Or, yeah, the shots that are second best or third best. We all know it.

And it's it's easy to get discouraged looking at the first bulk import of photographs, when you've got everything in front of you to resize the thumbnails you can use Ctrl and the scroll wheel on your mouse, or the plus and minus keys on the keyboard. And just have a good look at what you've got what you've shown and just work through it. You can see them coming out you can see them just popping into SAP a fuller thumbnail as you go through. Depending on the speed of your computer, this will be you know, take some time, faster computer Bryggen, your computer's gonna handle it more readily than a slightly older machine, of course. So you've just got to take your time, be a bit patient with that. And once they're all rendered, then you'll see the thumbnails and good resolution.

But even when you zoom into the thumbnail, you're still going to have to be patient for it to build the full preview. Now I've just done select all select Ctrl A and now I'm I've had some keywords because at the stage I like to add a few basic keywords on to all of the images that I've shot on the same day and one or two locations. So Chiang Mai both situations both locations where markets have some Thailand, Southeast Asia, Asia. So I just like to add a few keywords because I thought everything by date, I find that's just the most convenient way to do it like that the data is always recorded on your image. It's an easy way to import it's an easy way to keep track of your images. And then with the help of keywords or tags to break it down.

Now and a copyright information you want to copyright your images, you want to make sure your names on there. You can do it on camera, I don't because we see a camera so it's good to just been paired up and wireframes So let's having selected all of the images in the batch, you've keyword them, you've added some copyright information. And that just sets them up there to be easily located. When ever you might need to find photographs that you've shot in Chiangmai or at the markets, I mean later in the process, we'll go through and add more keywords once we've broken down to the different locations or different areas that most of all once we've gotten rid of the shots that we're not really going to work with. So let's do selecting and now just having a look at some images, you see it's still loading.

You just got to be patient until that comes up and gives you a nice, decent resolution image to have a look at. So just scrolling through and have a look at what you saw and have a look of what you've done. keep a positive attitude. Sure, there's gonna be ones there. Especially during sequences like this with some action where I've just been photographing whatever's happening, the background might be really busy, the lad is not looking up at the camera not really got much excretion. But there's plenty of other shots there.

And I've seen one or two already, that I like the look of the net bench. So we'll just keep scrolling through and having a look to see what else we've got. And just get a good general overall feel for the series of images. Now, at this point, it's also a good idea to open your backup software. This is a program that will incrementally backups are back the images up. But once I've worked on Lightroom, and deleted some images that I don't want, when the backup software runs again, we'll go through and recognize that I've deleted images and also delete them from the bank app.

And this helps you to keep your drives from Bank to bloated with multiple images and images that you've deleted off one drive, making sure that they are also deleted off the backup drive will help keep your space free. And so you should have two identical drives, preferably an external drive. And then even a third drive that you could mirror them to a game and back them up off site somewhere or onto the cloud. So just scrolling through again having a look. There's a nice variety of images this and play snapshots at the flower markets, the the fresh market, some general sort of wide shots, I can see a bunch of stuff already that I won't be keeping that that's always the way so that's your first step, bringing your photographs and adding some basic key words adding a little bit of basic information and getting you back out And the way