Photoshop Lightroom

Import photos from a catalog into Lightroom

When you import photos from a different catalog, you can specify options to handle new photos and existing photos (photos that already appear in the current catalog).

Note: Before you can import photos from a Lightroom 1.0 database (.lrdb), you must open the 1.0 database file as a catalog in Lightroom 1.1 to convert it.
  1. Choose Files > Import From Catalog.
  2. Double-click the catalog to import.
  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 from the File Handling menu whether to import new photos at their current location or at a new location. If you choose to import at a new location, click Choose and specify a folder. If you choose not to import new photos, only photos that exist in the current catalog are replaced.
  5. In the 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 might want to 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 might want to 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 this file. 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.



 

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