Is There a BETTER WAY to Import Photos Into LIGHTROOM?

In this tutorial, I demonstrate how to set up Lightroom to import your images in the background automatically.

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In this tutorial, I demonstrate how to set up Lightroom to import your images in the background automatically.

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[norma]

I love your photos. They are so beautiful, colorful, clear and sharp.

[davidfarquhar]

I use this feature to import photos from my mobile phone. I have OneDrive set up to automatically backup on the phone, and this is synced to the computer. Lightroom auto import is pointing at the OneDrive camera roll folder on the computer

[baggerrider]

What a great piece of information and teaching. Thank you so much. I really enjoy your tutorials. They are always so helpful and help me.

[peterwaugh]

Thanks Anthony for explaining this process. There are many times I need to get a couple of photos into LR that aren't coming from my camera. This will be very useful.

[cloive]

I use this method for scanning old photos. Thank you

[johevideos]

Thank you so much Anthony for all your videos. 👏

[TC_Conner]

I think I remember a video you made about this some time back Anthony, but I never used the feature. I will be using it now as part of my 2023 plan to become a better landscape and waterfall photographer, and a better organizer of photos I make!

[BubblesPothowari]

Thank you for this insight !!! Just created the Auto Import Folder !

[DyrectaRashiD_DRYCELL]

Thank you for your tutorial, your solution worked for me

[jimintaos]

Thank you, this was wonderfully helpful.

[richbottarini]

Very interesting. I keep all my images in a single file folder named “Photos by Year”. Each year is listed and includes sub folders such as “01-22 Grand Canyon”. After each trip or shoot, I load the latest images into a new sub file and then import the file into Lightroom. At that time of import I add keywords and import instructions. Now, if I make the “Photoshop by Year” the target file, will Lightroom automatically import the entire new sub file into Lightroom. Thus, a one step process instead of two. One of the things I like about Laminar Neo is that it does seem to update the catalog. I hope this makes sense.

[RubiHVY]

Great video. I had no idea that was there.

[richardpearcephotography]

I use this method to monitor the folder on my sd card. As soon as I plug in my sd card the images auto import directly from the sd card. I then move the images using LR to the final RAW folder.

[simonryan]

As a newbie I’m just not getting this one bit, I almost just want to give up using this application

[michaelneff]

Nice video, Tony. I'm looking for a way to get clipboard images into Lightroom, like copy and paste. Is there a watched folder for the clipboard?

[densopemburthy]

I use a Windows PC and copy my files from my card into my chosen folder . I could be on YouTube Amazon anywhere. When this is done I open Lightroom and in the library module drag and drop into centre of the viewing window. The Lightroom import dialogue opens, OK it and the link to the files are created in seconds.

[ShaneBaker]

I think Adobe could do better. Surely it would be a trivial task to have LR create separate subfolders based on import date - or the date of the images?

[namirachukwu]

I have tried this method but I keep getting “No photos” in the folder

How do I make my photos show in any folder in my pc

[rghurst]

I have a file/folder management system that predates my use of Lightroom. I have always "manually" copied my raw files from the camera media to my desired hard drive location and then imported them into LR at that location. I don't like it when LR tries to do something else, and I have no reason to change.