From the course: Lightroom Classic Essential Training

Import with drag and drop - Lightroom Tutorial

From the course: Lightroom Classic Essential Training

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Import with drag and drop

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- [Instructor] Folders of photos can be quickly imported into Lightroom Classic with a simple drag and drop. I've got the Mac Finder active and it's sitting on top of the Lightroom Classic catalog. We've already imported all of the chapter two lessons. Let's import the remainder of the exercise files using the drag and drop method. It's very easy, I'll just grab chapter three, hold down my Shift key, and click on chapter seven to select all five of those folders, and then just drag them over into Lightroom and let go. This may be the quickest and easiest way to get images into Lightroom Classic. It's just important to understand that the method is exactly the same as the Add method. Doing this, put us into the Lightroom import dialog, and we see at the top that we have Add Selected. I'll come over here to the file handling and change the Build Previews back to standard, and uncheck the Build Smart Previews, and then click Import to add all of those to the catalog. Now that we have all of the exercise folders in the catalog, let's clean up the Folders panel. We have the folders from Italy but we don't see the Italy folder that they're nested into, so if I do a right click on Pompeii and then say Show Parent Folder, it collected Pompeii and Venice and put it inside of Italy. And hen, we have all of these chapter folders. If we want to have it really organized, we could go ahead and reveal those parent folders again. So we'll say Show Parent Folder and that collected everything that was in chapter 204. Let's find the parent folder for 0204 by doing the right click or Control click and we'll go to Show Parent Folder. Now we have all of chapter two folders collected or nested inside of the folder, just like they are on the hard drive. So that's it. We have all of the exercise files added to our course catalog. We did this last import quickly so that we could get on with the fun stuff. When you add your photos into your catalog, make sure to take the time to properly apply copyright meta-data and keywords during the import. You will thank yourself later if you do.

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