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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers
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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers

by Martin Evening
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
624 pages
19h 1m
English
Adobe Press
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Chapter 2. Importing photos

A guide to the various ways you can bring your photos into Lightroom

Lightroom is essentially a catalog management program and raw image processor combined into one. To use Lightroom to manage your photos, you must first import them into the Lightroom catalog.

It is important, therefore, to appreciate how a program like Lightroom differs from browser programs such as Adobe Bridge, which you can point at any folder to inspect the contents. The browser approach is really suited for those times when you want the freedom to search everything on your computer. The downside of this is that you first have to know where to look to find what you are searching for. You will also be shown all the files contained in any folder, which ...

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