IMPORT - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process - page 56

Or, to create a subfolder under a specii c folder in the list, right-click
or Control+click on it, and from the popup menu, choose New Folder
and use the system dialog boxes to make the folder. Be sure to give it an
appropriate name.

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Alternatively, with an upper-level parent folder selected in the folder
list, check the box for Into Subfolder (see Figure 2-22). h is provides
several additional options for Lightroom's naming of folders as they are
created. If you want to create a subfolder and give it your own name (as in
the i rst method above), choose Into one folder from the Organize popup
menu (see Figure 2-22). You can then type in the name for the folder in the
provided text i eld. h is is almost always my preferred method.

You could instead choose
to have Lightroom
automatically place the
copied photos into folders
named with a date format.
From the Organize menu
choose By Date; this then allows you to choose from a set of predei ned
Date Formats in the menu below (see Figure 2-23).

Figure 2-23

Collapsing panels and Solo Mode
h e import screen is one area in Lightroom where the panel tracks can get very
long. As you're going through the steps to set up your import, you can close
panels you're not using to make items easier to i nd.

Also, if you right-click or Control+click on a panel header you'll see a popup
menu for hiding and showing panels. With Solo Mode enabled, as you open one
panel, all the others will close. h is option is specii c to each let and right panel
track and is my preferred mode. Solo Mode is available on panels throughout
Lightroom and is mentioned in other places where it's particularly useful.

9. On the File Handling panel at the top right: use the Render Previews
menu to set the size and quality level of previews generated for i les in
this import. h e preview types are listed in order of size and quality.

10. U ncheck Don't Import Suspected Duplicates. At this point, we don't
want Lightroom deciding for us what's a duplicate and what's not.