Graphics Programs Reference
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Step Five:
Now, what if you have 300+ photos
on your memory card, but you only
want a handful of them imported? Then
you'd click the Uncheck All button at the
bottom left of the Preview area (which
unchecks every photo), and
Command-
click (PC: Ctrl-click)
on just the photos
you want to import. Then, turn on the
checkbox for any of these selected pho-
tos, and all the selected photos become
checked and will be imported. Also, if
you choose
Checked State
from the Sort
pop-up menu (beneath the Preview area),
all of the images you checked will appear
together at the top of the Preview area.
TIP: Selecting Multiple Photos
If the photos you want are contiguous,
then click on the first photo, press-and-
hold the Shift key, scroll down to the
last photo, and click on it to select all
the photos in between at once.
Step Six:
At the top center of the Import window,
you get to choose whether you want to
copy the files “as is” (Copy) or Copy as
DNG to convert them to Adobe's DNG
format as they're being imported (if you're
not familiar with the advantages of Adobe's
DNG [digital negative] file format, turn to
page 37). Luckily, there's no wrong answer
here, so if at this point you're unsure of
what to do, for now just choose the de-
fault setting of Copy, which copies the
images off the card onto your computer
(or external drive) and imports them into
Lightroom. Neither choice moves your
originals off the card (you'll notice Move
is grayed out), it only copies them, so if
there's a serious problem during import
(hey, it happens), you still have the origi-
nals on your memory card.
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