- [Instructor] Let's keep going with importing
exercise files into our catalog.
This time we'll apply keywords and metadata copyright
during the import.
Adding keywords to images makes it easier
to find and collect them at a later time.
But keyboarding individual photos can be really tedious.
Adding keywords in bulk during the import
can save you a ton of time.
The challenge with adding keywords during import is that the
photos being imported might be very different
and require different keywords.
And this is especially true
if you import photos from multiple events at the same time,
like we did with chapter two, lesson two.
We imported the oh two oh two folder
with all of the sub folders contained within it,
making it pretty difficult to apply specific keywords.
We could have applied the keyword travel and United States,
but nothing more specific like winter
or desert or architecture.
Which keywords you use will depend on your workflow.
You can think about how you might search for an image at a
later time to give you ideas for good keywords,
for the best possibility
of applying specific detailed keywords
during the import,
I like to import a single event or a single folder of images
at a time.
Let's see how that works with the contents
of chapter two lesson four.
I'll click on the import button here
in the lower left hand corner.
And that takes us to the import dialogue.
On the left we have our sources.
If I select Oh two Oh two,
all the images will show up in the center here,
grayed out because Lightroom already imported these photos
or Lightroom already knows about them and knows that they're
in the catalog.
So let's come down here to oh two oh four and open this
folder up and we see an Australia folder and a
United Kingdom folder.
Let's open the Australia folder and then click
on Bondai Beach to select the images inside of that folder.
Then in the center,
we have all of them selected and always double check at the
top that it says add.
So we're not going to move or copy them anywhere.
And then over here on the right hand side,
where it says apply during import,
we're going to apply that metadata preset we created.
So I'll click where it says none choose the preset
that I created that will add my contact and copyright
metadata to the images.
And then in this field,
I'll click on it and type in some keywords that might be
good for these images like, ocean, summer, travel.
And I'm separating the key words by a comma.
So you can use a two word keyword.
It's hard for me to type and talk at the same time.
So I can use Bondai Beach as a keyword,
and that will show up as a single keyword
because it's after a comma,
then I'll click the import and these images are getting
added to the catalog and that metadata information,
the keywords and the copyright are being added
to the images as well.
If we scroll down the metadata panel here on the right hand
side, we'll see that it's copyrighted.
Let's repeat that by clicking the import again.
And this time we'll import the images from Cannes.
It remembers the metadata preset and we'll type in the
keyword, Cannes, C-A-I-R-N-S.
It's pronounced cans,
even though it looks like it should be carns.
And then we'll call this travel as well.
If you've already used a keyword,
it start showing up as you type it in.
So I can just use my arrow key to go to the end of that,
and then click the import button to add those images.
Notice these folders are showing up here in the folders
panel here, along the left hand side.
Let's do that one more time to get the folder for Sydney.
And we'll just do this one for travel as well and Sydney,
and we'll import those.
The process of importing goes really fast when you're just
adding the images because all Lightroom
has to do is build the previews.
Now, if we look at the folders panel on the left hand side,
notice that when we imported the oh two oh two folder,
we see that here, but these folders,
we imported one at a time instead of importing the folder
that it was nested into.
So we don't see the folder Australia and we don't see the
folder, oh two oh four.
Well, we can change that view by right clicking on it.
Any one of these three folders,
we get the contextual menu and halfway down it says,
show parent folder.
So that collected all three of those folders and put them
inside of the Australia folder.
If I show parents on Australia,
it'll put those inside of the Oh two Oh four folder,
just like they are shown out on the hard drive.
We have several more folders inside of the oh two oh four.
So let's import that as well.
I'll go back to import and back out of Australia by
collapsing this. And then we see the UK folder this time,
just to save time,
I'm going to go ahead and import the entire UK folder.
If we open this up,
we'll see that there are several folders nested in there.
I have include sub folders checked at the top.
So it's going to import the sub folders nested in there.
Make sure that it says add up here.
The metadata, it remembers the preset that we were using,
and we'll just call these travel and UK,
and then I'll click import.
Now our catalog is starting to fill up.
If we look up here under catalog in the panel
where it says all photos,
we see that there are now 130 photos in our catalog,
and they're organized the same exact way that they were out
on the hard drive.
We showed the parent folder to show
how these folders were nested.
We can go the opposite direction if we don't want to see the
Oh two Oh four or the Oh two Oh two, we could right click
or control click on that and say, hide this parent.
And then it just shows the United States.
And we can do that for the Oh two Oh four.
Say, hide this parent.
Now we have the three different countries of travel photos
shown here in our folders panel.
If you are following along with your own library of photos,
not these exercise files,
you're going to want to repeat these steps until all of the
photos on your computer are added
to your Lightroom Classic catalog.