kbatschke Loc: Chicagoland-west

Everyone's workflow in LR can vary. I personally like to import into specific folders related to the particular photo shoot; Christmas 2016, Soccer etc. So, prior to import, I create a folder (right click on any folder in the left column of LR and it allows you to create a sub-folder by any name you choose). Once the folder is created, I attach (or insert in my case) the SD card in the reader. Ignore the windows pop-up box (since I don't want Windows to do anything automatically). Click Import on LR. Look at the top, left-had part of the screen and identify the drive with the photos (E: in my case, yours may be different). Once selected, ALL photos on the memory card will be selected. If you want to import all photos into a particular folder, then move over to the right hand dialogue box. There you can add keywords (Soccer, birds, flowers etc. depending on the shoot), assign any automatic processing (I don't use this) create custom naming and so on as well as decide what folder to import the files into. This is where I select the newly created sub-folder and then click Import on the lower right side of the screen. Pretty simple.
This of course in my preferred workflow. Others like to organize by year, month etc. I find that organizing by shoot or location works best for me at the moment.
I agree with other posters comments. Watch YouTube videos and Google. There is a lifetime's worth of information and many opinions on workflow. Find one that makes sense to you and use it. LR is very friendly if you later choose to change up your workflow so you're not locked into anything if you find your initial approach does not fit your needs down the line.
One suggestion I'd make however is to add enough key words so that you can find images you need easily. Even if your keywords are fairly broad, it's better to sort through a few hundred images for what you are looking for than many thousands. Do this work on import and just after import (if you have multiple subjects/keyword needs). It's a quick process and you'll be glad you took the time.
Good luck with LR. I started using this a year ago. Still have a lot to learn but it has helped with my image organization immensely.

mikeroetex Loc: Lafayette, LA

Big Rob, no offense, but this is kinda silly. The process to get them from your camera versus a card reader is exactly the same. If you can use LR6 to get the photos from your camera (which is just a big ole bulky card reader) to your various hard drives, you already know how to get from a card reader to the HD's. Just put the SD card in the memory card reader and connect the other end to a USB port on your computer. Do everything else EXACTLY THE SAME!

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

My suggestion would to be to purchase a DVD on this subject from Laura Shoe at her website. 2 available for @ $ 50 each and offer a wealth of information @ using Lr. Best of luck.

stever46 Loc: Port Townsend, WA

I just got turned on to Lightroom's Auto Import feature. Works well for me and very simple to set up. Hope the link works. Never tried to do this before.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr88Mq82wNI

DavidPine Loc: Fredericksburg, TX

Let's try this:

Make a new file(s) on an external hard drive that reflects what you have on your SD cards. Such as "grandkids". "Christmas". "Paris Trip" or what ever it is you have on your cards. Copy each card to the appropriate new file(s).
Open Lightroom and click import for each new file from where you stored them on your external drive.

bedgmon Loc: Burleson, Texas

Matt Kloskowski has an excellent program for Lightroom and file structure is exactly how it begins! I learned a great deal from this course. Hope this helps.
https://mattk.com/lightroom/

bedgmon Loc: Burleson, Texas

Matt Kloskowski has an excellent program for Lightroom and file structure is exactly how it begins! I learned a great deal from this course. Hope this helps.
https://mattk.com/lightroom/

idkin1

Copy and paste the images from the cards directly to your hard drive. Then open Lightroom and import from the hard drive.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Exactly,and you can configure the way the file is set up right in Lightroom. Some are making this far more complicated that needed. One of Lightroom's features is the ability to quickly move/import a large number of photos in a minimum amount of time

Meives Loc: FORT LAUDERDALE

Light Room or Photoshop do not stor any pictures in it. Just copy and past to a photo file on the "C" drive. David

MarkSki

Google Laura Shoe. Buy her Lightroom 6 DVD lessons (costs $45)--wonderful tutorials. She covers this topic in one of the lessons in detail, in 20 minutes. It'll be the best $45 you'll have ever spent. No more frustrations!

cjc2 Loc: Hellertown PA

This is the best way to go! Painless!

Pgphoto Loc: Brooklyn, NY

if you want we can discuss this on the phone. if you are interested let me know

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

UHH'ers: I'm always glad to help a newbie getting started. But, I think this guy is a troll. Consider the naive questions he's asked in this post, then look at, say, the following post by the same person, and consider whether he's trolling you:

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-402446-1.html

He's just wasting your time.

BIG ROB Loc: Princeton, NJ 08540

Dear Dan,

My name is Robert. I had posted regarding how to load images onto my external hdd, that is attached to my Win10 Laptop, that is running LR6, with a Memory Card Reader attached to it. I have 10 full SD cards from 3 Camera's to load onto the HDD, and I don't know which cards came from which Camera's.

I have rudimentary and basic understanding of LR6 from watching videos and using it a bit myself.

I had loaded images onto my Laptop's C: Drive, by Connecting 3 camera's via USB cables Running LR6.

I've since deleted all of this, from my C: drive, and Un-installed LR6, which I now must Re-install. Then, for the first time, connect a Winchester 4 TB Ext HDD to the Laptop via USB cable, and for the first time, use a New "Lexar Pro" Memory Card Reader, connected to the Laptops's USB 3.0 Port, and Load the 10 SD Card's, images: ???

??? : Into a Master Folder, and Into (Various) Sub-Folder's within it, that I will Create, on the EXT HDD, (After I've first Formatted it, to Erase all of the old back-ups that are on it now.)

I don't know much about using computer's, beyond the very basic, superficial, user's level. I also, do not know much about LR6, beyond how to carry out some basic things, and I'm unsure about "Selecting Files, To be imported, To Be Copied"... and then, to
"drag and drop" them, to where they "are supposed to go"? (This is something very basic that I haven't done before. (I ALWAYS Simply ... CUT & PASTE!) I never drag and drop, as people keep telling me to do....

Also: When I'd previously, successfully brought in the images from my 3 Cameras, via USB Cables, they had simply APPEARED,
on my "LR6 PANEL" and were very obvious as to which one to select, to have the LR6 bring them onto my C: Drive (then); now they have to go to my EXT HDD, instead.

I'm concerned that when I use this Memory Card Reader to bring the Images onto my EXT HDD with the LR6 program...I AM UNSURE AS TO CREATING A FOLDER FOR THE IMAGES AND THEN WHERE DO I DRAG AND DROP THEM TO...TO GET THEM ONTO MY EXT HDD?

Where to bring them into? As I must create new folders? ... And also, Drag, and Drop them? ... Which I've never done before....and am anticipating having a hard time in doing this, and trying to find out ahead of time, EXACTLY, what I need to do?...and exactly what is going to occur as I go through this process?

i am ONLY seeking legitimate, detailed information...hopefully, step by step, on how to carry out, this initial process, of taking these images, that will be in the memory card reader, and getting them onto my external hdd, through my Laptop, using LR6.

What IS the EXACT process, that I must carry out, to Facilitate this Operation?

What are the Actual Steps, that I must Proceed through, to do this?

Once I know this, then I'll be able to do it, over and over, for all of my 10 SD memory cards, and I'll know it for life!

This is what I'm trying to determine and learn, through my question which I've posed, on this UHH post...(2 question's): The 1st one: Posed incorrectly, and the 2nd one, asked correctly.

PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY, TOLD ME, HOW TO DO THIS!

I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS OF GETTING THE IMAGES FROM THE MEMORY CARD, AND ONTO THE LAPTOP!
...INTO THE FOLDER, THAT I MUST CREATE...
WHERE DO I CREATE IT? ON MY EXT HDD, OR MY C: DRIVE? --- (ALL OF THE IMAGE'S ARE GOING TO BE KEPT ON MY EXT HDD!)

WHAT DO I NAME THAT FOLDER?

ONCE THE IMAGE'S HAVE BEEN TRANSFERRED FROM THE MEMORY CARD READER, INTO "THAT FOLDER" ...THEN, I "POINT" LR6
AT "THAT FOLDER", SO THAT IT WILL THEN, IMPORT "THOSE IMAGE FILES", ONTO MY EXT HDD?

THEN DO I DELETE, THAT ORIGINAL FOLDER OF IMAGE'S, THAT I HAD FIRST CREATED TO BRING MY MEMORY CARD IMAGES TO?

WITH THOSE QUESTIONS ANSWERED I THINK THAT I'VE GOT IT!

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REGARDING THE POSTER DAN'S BULLSHIT ASSERTION THAT I'M A TROLL BASED UPON THE POST WHICH HE CITED:

I AM NO TROLL !!!

THE PREVIOUS VERY LONG POST OF MINE, THAT YOU'VE CITED, I'VE CAREFULLY RE-READ, AND I WILL, IN A "NUT SHELL",
RE-STATE FOR YOU, AND OTHERS, NOW:

I first, very warmly, and lavishly, introduced myself to everyone, on the forum...

I went on, to state, that I'm open, to all, brands of camera gear!

i went on, to explain, that I personally own, and use, Canon, Nikon, and Sony: DSLR & MILC Camera's, and very much like all of them.

That through doing much research on the Internet, I've learned that the Image Sensor's, in these 3 manufacture's camera's,
are not equal in their performance.

There are scientifically documented test results, which prove, that Nikon and Sony image sensor's, far surpass, Canon image sensor's.

I went on to cite, very many, exact, and specific, image sensor rating specifications, from the scientific image sensor testing, www.dxomark.com website, where DXOMARK has tested, and ranked, all of the various camera models, by the 3 significant performance parameters of image sensor's.

I explained, why I, chose to purchase the Nikon D7200, over certain other camera's.

I explained that the Nikon Full Frame camera's, encompassed the entire upper one-third, of the ranking list, for image sensor performance ratings.

I explained that the Canon APS-C, (Crop Sensor) Image Sensor camera's, (except for the model 80D, were entirely deficient, in all
of their ratings, for both Low Light ISO Performance, and Image Sensor Dynamic Range, for all of the Canon's crop sensor model's;
except for the 80D.

That in my personal opinion, Canon is short changing their customer's, by manufacturing and marketing, camera's having such poor
image sensor performance, relative to the consistently high performance image sensors, that Nikon and Sony were selling.

I explained that this problem, did not, hold true, in Canon's FULL FRAME, image sensor camera's, but only, in their ASP-C camera's.

Although their full frame camera's did not score as high as the Nikon and Sony did, they were still, very good image sensor's.

*** I have later found out, that the reason for this is, because Nikon does not manufacture their own image sensors, rather, they have them produced by the current state of the art Fab, who is at that time, the most highly abreast in the present state of the art technology, continuously changing the manufacturer, in accord with whoever is currently the most advanced Fab. While Canon's business model is such that they have chosen, to design and manufacture, all of their own image sensor's, only in their own, corporate factory; Hence, they are behind, the state of the art, in this ultra high tech field. This shows, in their APS-C image sensor performance, which significantly lags behind Nikon and Sony. This is a fact. You do not, have to like it. It is the truth, and the testing at the www.dxomark.com labs is the proof of it.

Every word in my post, which you cited, and you called me a "Troll," is (LITERALLY) true, and correct, every single word!

You may not have read it carefully, and you may not have been aware of the veracity of all of the facts, which i cited in it; But if you go through it carefully, and look up every reference that I have made within it, you will find that every single word, and fact which I've cited is true.

Have a good day, Sir.