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Understanding the Imports album

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Understanding the Imports album

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- [Instructor] The Imports album can be super helpful, and one of the reasons why I like it so much is that it shows me when the images were brought into the library, not when they were actually captured. And I'll explain that distinction right now. So for example, these shots right here I brought in on October eighth. However, if I go over to the photos area here, you'll see that they were shot at different times. Okay, some were shot as far back as July, some in August, some in September, right? More in September, and then this one actually just yesterday itself. Now the reason why this is important is that sometimes you'll have a photo that was taken quite a while ago, and let's say that it's on a flash drive or something. And you import it, so you bring it in. 'Cause you just brought it in, you would expect it to be down here, right? Just like when we brought this in, you would expect it to be down here so you could…

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