IMPORT - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process - page 50

Option+Click
or Alt+Click
thumbnails
Select and
check/uncheck
simultaneously

are indicated with a lighter cell color around the thumbnail preview. Simply
selecting or deselecting thumbnails by clicking on the cells does not
change their checked status.

2

To check or uncheck multiple photos at once, i rst use the shit or Ctrl key
to select their thumbnails. h en, clicking a single checkbox will include or
exclude all of the selected photos. h e Check All and Uncheck All buttons
make this easier (see Figure 2-15).

Figure 2-15

Or, with a large Loupe preview showing for a single image, click the checkbox
in the Toolbar to include or exclude the i le from the import (see Figure 2-14
on previous page).

You can also sort the previews by their Checked State.

10. With photos checked,
a display at the bottom
let corner of the
Import screen indicates
how many photos are
marked for import and the total aggregate i le size of the batch (see Figure
2-16).

Figure 2-16

11. At er you've made sure the proper photos are selected, make sure the Add
button is highlighted in the middle of the top panel (go back to review Figure
2-6 if necessary). h is tells Lightroom that we're only adding existing i les to
the catalog, and not copying, moving or renaming them in the process. To
coni rm this, the destination listed in the To section at the top right shows
“My Catalog”. (If you have a copy or move handling method selected, this will
show the destination i le path on a hard drive.)