WinchesterDave Posted December 6, 2015 Report Share Posted December 6, 2015 Girlfriend has just bought a Mac book pro, and has installed light room and photoshop for her photography editing. She puts the sd card in the side and uploads the pictures to the 'pictures' app. However there just seems no conceivable way to upload them to lightroom to start editing them. Any help would be good:) Cheers, Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olliesims Posted December 6, 2015 Report Share Posted December 6, 2015 On my Lightroom there is a large button on the left hand side towards the bottom that says import, just click that and it will bring the sd card up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinchesterDave Posted December 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2015 Thanks for the reply. That seems easy didn't even think of that. Do you know of a way of importing them them from photos to light room? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuji Shooter Posted December 6, 2015 Report Share Posted December 6, 2015 If you are using Lightroom CC make sure you are on the latest version as the import routine has just been fixed as the previous version was a bit of a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casts_by_fly Posted December 6, 2015 Report Share Posted December 6, 2015 Don't import to photos on the start. If you are using Lightroom, then only have a Lightroom library. If you want to have libraries in both programs, then you need to use referenced libraries where you put photos into a defined folder structure and have the program reference them. Then you can have both programs reference the same. If you just import into photos, then the pictures are in a photos managed library and Lightroom won't see them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinchesterDave Posted December 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2015 Thanks for the replies all:) we tried the sd card method to no joy for some reason but ended up- making each image a file on "desktop" then going to light room and selecting import from desktop...and it worked.... maybe not the easiest of ways but after a very long time of trying to figure it all out... we were happy I'll make sure it's been updated also. And also import directly to light room. See what happens lol thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casts_by_fly Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 It is safer to copy them from the SD card into a folder on your desktop first, then eject the SD card. At that point ingest them into LR. This way if there is a corruption on ingestion (unlikely but it happens) the card is secure and you have a backup (the SD card) of the files on the desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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