IMPORT - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process - page 61

The Compact Import window
At the bottom let of the Import screen
is a large triangle button that toggles
between Show More Options and
Show Fewer Options; see Figure 2-27.
Sometimes you don't need to see all
the thumbnail previews or options in
the expanded Import screen. Showing
fewer options compacts the Import screen to
just show the essential elements; see Figure 2-28.

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Figure 2-27

Figure 2-28

More import workl ows
h e two scenarios outlined previously, Import from Hard Disk and Import from
Camera, represent the vast majority of situations you'll run into when importing
photos into Lightroom. In some cases, slight modii cations to those two basic
workl ows can help perform specii c tasks. Here are some of the other scenarios
to consider:

Copy photos as Digital Negative ( DNG ) and add to catalog
You can do this even for camera raw i les already on the hard drive. h is allows you
to convert your camera raw i les to Adobe's dng f ormat and subsequently import
the resulting dng i les. If the raw i les have sidecars, those edits will be integrated
into the new dng. You can then decide whether or not to keep your original camera
raw i les. (I don't.) dng is dis cussed further in Chapters 1, 3, 4 and 5.

Move photos and import
h is is similar to copy and import: Lightroom copies the selected i les to a new
location and imports the copies. But Lightroom then deletes the old i les at the
original location. Use this with care.

Manual copy now, Lightroom import later
h ere will likely be situations in which manually copying your i les from the
memory card to your hard drive is more desirable than using a Lightroom Import
to perform the download.