Import your photos into Lightroom
In this short video tutorial, digital photo expert Matt Kloskowski shows you how to import your photo library into Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ and shares his secrets that will keep you organized and save you time down the road. Also, learn what you can do to your photos as you import them, such as applying presets or assigning metadata or keywords.
Duration: 7 minutes 22 seconds
Requirements
To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Prerequisite knowledge:
Basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Where to go from here
For more information about Photoshop Lightroom, check out the following resources:
- Adjust an image’s tone with ease, by Matt Kloskowski
- Keep your images organized by using keywords, by Scott Kelby
- Convert color photos to black-and-white, by Matt Kloskowski
- Output your photos, by Matt Kloskowski
- Manage before and after previews in Photoshop Lightroom, by Martin Evening
About the author
Matt Kloskowski is the Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and is a speaker at trade shows and events around the world. He’s a co-host of the top rated video podcast Photoshop TV and has written six books on Photoshop and Illustrator including the Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic, Photoshop CS2 Savvy and Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips. Matt is featured on various training DVDs available from www.photoshopvideos.com and is a regular writer for Photoshop User magazine, Layers magazine, and is the Editor-in-chief of the Photoshop Elements Techniques Newsletter. He’s an instructor at Photoshop World and the Mac Live Conference and teaches basic and advanced Photoshop classes for Sessions.edu online school of design. Matt is also an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop as well as a Macromedia Flash Certified Developer.
Excerpted from “Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips,” a weekly videocast and website blog produced by Matt Kloskowski at the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). Copyright © 2007. Used with the permission of Matt Kloskowski. To see more, visit www.lightroomkillertips.com.
