per_folkesson
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- Aug 25, 2020
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- Lightroom Version Number
- 10.0
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- Windows 10
Any suggestions for the best workflow when you want to import and keyword images from one memory card to several different folders?
I can see why Lightroom is built around the idea that you import your photos to a folder structure based on date of capture, that is often convenient and what I do as well for some photography. But if I have been out shooting birds for example, I still want to use my folder structure based on subject, so that I have one folder for each species. (and sub folders for capture occasion). Seems like Lightroom is not really well adapted to importing a mixed set of photos to this folder structure? When I plug in my memory card full of maybe 30 different bird species, what workflow would take the least number of clicks to import them to their respective folders and assign the relevant keyword? The way I do it now, I have to do the import process as many times as folders to import to, and also actually disconnect and reconnect the memory card to get the card to show up in the import dialog between every import. I would love to se a possibility to point selected photos to different folders in the import dialog, so I could run the import once even when I want to import to different folders, but for a reason I dont understand, that option is not available?
Of course, I could import all the photos to one folder, and then move the photos afterward to the right folder structure, but that doesn't seem that much better. I could also use my computers file browser to copy/move the files to the right folder, and after that fire up Lightroom and sync the folders. But I want to use Lightroom..
Any suggestion for best workflow here?
I can see why Lightroom is built around the idea that you import your photos to a folder structure based on date of capture, that is often convenient and what I do as well for some photography. But if I have been out shooting birds for example, I still want to use my folder structure based on subject, so that I have one folder for each species. (and sub folders for capture occasion). Seems like Lightroom is not really well adapted to importing a mixed set of photos to this folder structure? When I plug in my memory card full of maybe 30 different bird species, what workflow would take the least number of clicks to import them to their respective folders and assign the relevant keyword? The way I do it now, I have to do the import process as many times as folders to import to, and also actually disconnect and reconnect the memory card to get the card to show up in the import dialog between every import. I would love to se a possibility to point selected photos to different folders in the import dialog, so I could run the import once even when I want to import to different folders, but for a reason I dont understand, that option is not available?
Of course, I could import all the photos to one folder, and then move the photos afterward to the right folder structure, but that doesn't seem that much better. I could also use my computers file browser to copy/move the files to the right folder, and after that fire up Lightroom and sync the folders. But I want to use Lightroom..
Any suggestion for best workflow here?