Bring It All In – Importing Photographs into Lightroom

If, by this point, you are using only your computer's native software to browse files or maybe work with something such as Photoshop or Bridge, you will have to develop a new way of thinking about managing your assets. To work on any photographs in Lightroom, we must first import them, which means that we need to tell Lightroom where they are. By doing this, we will create a database with our files' locations, and from that point, we will be able to not only work on them using Lightroom but also move folders or delete images from within Lightroom itself. As we mentioned earlier, Lightroom offers a non-destructive process of working with photographs. By creating a database called Catalog, Lightroom leaves our original files untouched, adds a description of what we want to do with them, and visually displays the results. We need to create this library by importing images into Lightroom and pointing it to the files...