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Import photos
Last updated 11/30/2015
3 Specify the photos to import:
• Under Catalog Contents, make sure the folders containing the photos to import are selected.
• To select or deselect individual photos, click Show Preview, and click the box in the upper-left corner of any
preview image. You can also choose Check All or Uncheck All.
4 In the New Photos area, choose an option from the File Handling menu:
Add New Photos To Catalog Without Moving Imports photos at their current location.
Copy New Photos To A New Location And Import Imports photos to a new location. Click Choose and specify the
folder.
Don’t Import New Photos Only photos that exist in the current catalog are imported. Lightroom determines a photo
is a duplicate (already in the catalog) if it has the same, original filename; the same Exif capture date and time; and
the same file size.
5 In the Changed Existing Photos area, do any of the following:
• Replace metadata, Develop settings, and negative files to override all the settings in the current catalog. If you
choose this option, you can select the Preserve Old Settings As A Virtual Copy option to keep a backup. You can
also select the Replace Non-Raw Files Only option to avoid replacing raw negatives. If changes to raw negative
files affect only metadata, selecting this option helps save time.
• Replace metadata and Develop settings only to leave the negative files (the source photos) unchanged. If you
choose this option, you can select the Preserve Old Settings As A Virtual Copy option to keep a backup.
• Replace nothing to import only new photos.
• If photos in the current catalog are missing and can be found in the imported catalog, indicate whether you want
to update the metadata and Develop settings for these files. Select the Preserve Old Settings As A Virtual Copy
option to keep a backup. If the photos missing in the current catalog appear in the imported catalog, specify
whether the missing files are copied and where they copied to.
6 Click Import.
More Help topics
Import photos from iPhoto (Mac OS)
Import photos from a tethered camera
When selected Canon, Nikon, or Leica digital cameras are connected to the computer, you can import photos directly
into a Lightroom catalog. You can bypass the camera's capture software and importing from a camera card.
1 Connect a supported camera to your computer and open Lightroom.
For a list of cameras that can be tethered to Lightroom, see Tethered camera support in Lightroom .
2 Choose File > Tethered Capture > Start Tethered Capture.
3 In the Tethered Capture Settings dialog box, specify how you want to import the photos:
Session The session is the name of the folder that stores the captured photos. Select Segment Photos By Shots to
create subfolders within the session. You can name the subfolders after clicking OK.
Naming Choose a filenaming convention for the photos. Session Name - Sequence uses the name entered in
Session. For any naming convention that uses a numerical sequence, specify the Start Number. See
Naming
optionsand The Filename Template Editor and Text Template Editor.