When I used to teach those seminars I used to tell the audience up front, I was going to simplify Import for them in to a fool proof system. You simply get an option to select photos by browsing your computer or other hard drives, or your card reader. You’re not presented with a ton of options and checkboxes. Then right below it, you simple select the photos you want to add. It’s right in the middle at the top of everything. To me at least, the very basis of the dialog tells you exactly what you want to do – Add Photos. They got it! No questions? Know what? That may be the first time in history I’d ever seen a group of people get Import immediately without any more instruction. I opened the new Import dialog, showed them to select photos and just click Import – and guess what? Without any further instruction, they did it themselves.
#Lightroom 6.2 import dialog how to
The New Import Dialogįor starters, I had a really cool moment a couple of weeks ago when I was showing a few people how to get started with Lightroom. And the “To My Catalog” at the top right, introduces a whole new area of confusion because catalogs get confusing. Seemingly innocent checkboxes could totally mess up your folder structure, add weird dates to them, and move your photos to a place that you had no idea was happening. And then the Destination area on the right side was even worse. And don’t get me started on Copy/Move/Add. Lightroom is definitely the place for her but do you think she knows what DNG is? Hide that crap! Make it available in an advanced dialog for those that need it. Select a source? What’s a source? I just want to import photos from my camera!! Copy As DNG? Add? Move? Copy? First off, what the heck is DNG? My mom is getting in to photography. It was a breeding ground for questions and confusion. If you turn that off, you get a very similar experience to the old import. Side Note: If you go under the Lightroom Preferences dialog, there’s an option in the General section called “Show Add Photos Screen”. So here’s a screen capture of the old import dialog. And I wasn’t sure where I should put them and what Lightroom was doing with them. I didn’t know what was happening to my photos. It didn’t make sense to me when I started either. The Import process doesn’t make sense to a new person. If Lightroom is going to get out to the masses, it needs to change. It shouldn’t be that hard to get photos from a camera’s memory card, to your computer and in to Lightroom. Now, luckily, most of them did get it when they left the seminar, but it took them an hour + long class to get there. Newcomers to Lightroom just had a hard time understanding it. I can tell you without hesitation, the absolute top #1 issue in Lightroom, is Import. Plus, I ran a Lightroom-centered website for 8 years and I personally read each and every comment that came across. I taught Lightroom one-day seminars for nearly 7 years that regularly had 400-500 people attend, so I saw first hand every day what issues in Lightroom held people up. How do I know? I honestly don’t say this in an arrogant way, so please don’t take it that way – just trying to help frame things. I’m probably among the top 3 in the world in numbers of face-to-face and online training of Lightroom. Here’s what I can tell you about the Import process in Lightroom. And while in my jail cell, rather than calling home to get bailed out, I broke down and wrote this post (pretty nice of them to let me bring my laptop in with me huh?). Several of us were eventually taken to jail. We got in to fist fights, car chases ensued and all mayhem broke out over this. I totally snapped! I broke! I started swearing and throwing things at them. I was talking to a group that were all Lightroom users, and they were bashing the new Import dialog. But this past week was a tipping point for me. For me, I couldn’t understand it, but I was going to leave it alone. The Lightroom team doesn’t communicate with me anymore, but if I did have a line in to them, I would have said Well Done! But… (there’s always a but right?), there was a huge outcry from Lightroom users to bring back the old Import dialog. Personally I thought it was a great idea.
#Lightroom 6.2 import dialog update
Last month Adobe released an update to Lightroom that changed the way the Import dialog looked (and worked in some ways). Enjoy the new (I mean old) Import dialog 😉 My “New Import Lovers” club that I speak of below is now closed and not accepting new members. If you haven’t tried the new (and better in my opinion) Import dialog, you never will. UPDATE: I’m very sad to say that the latest Lightroom update has rendered this post useless.
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