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The old list of folders has been replaced by what should be a familiar standard system folder select dialog.
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Moreover, depending on the source and destination, not all options may be available, and move seems to have been removed completely.īelow the “File Handling” entry is the options for where to put the file. Those have been consolidated into the File Handling option. In the old screen there were 4 options that looked like headers for “Copy as DNG”, “Copy”, “Move” and “Add”, that controlled how, or if, Lightroom would transfer images on import. The first section Adobe called “Destination”, though it covers a number of the actual import file handling aspects. Probably the best way to go through this it simply go through the sections from top to bottom. The most obvious difference compared to the old import screen is the lack of a folder list at the bottom. Clicking the now ubiquitous gear icon brings up the settings panel.Īdobe has made a number of changes to the layout of the settings. The new import screen with the reorganized settings panel open.Īll the old settings are still here, they’re just hidden by default. Enter will import the selected images, escape cancels out of the dialog, and you can still use the arrow keys to navigate the gird and hit space to select/deselect images. On the other hand, the Import button now displays how many images Lightroom will be ingesting.Īs for keyboard accessibility, it’s still there. One minor change, that may annoy people who’ve developed muscle memory for it, is that the Import button has moved from the bottom of the screen to the top. However, it also means that it’s harder to accidentally change import settings accidentally. The old left and right sidebars are now hidden by default, which was something you simply couldn’t do in the old screen anyway-at least as far as I can recall.Īt a minimum this means that there’s more room for the preview thumbnails so you can see more images on the screen at a time. However, all of the functionality that was in the old screen is still accessible. The new image selection grid.Īdobe has really cleaned this screen up a lot. Once you click the source, you’re taken to the image preview, selection, and import configuration part. Since there are more folders with images than the 4 entry list can display, you can either click the arrow on the right side to scroll through the rest or click the “ Browse Computer button to select a folder manually. Along the top row, the first icon is for the DCIM folder on my flash card, the second two are folders on my hard disk. In the image above, Lightroom is telling me that it’s found 1 folder on a flash card and 4 folders on my drive that I can import from. Each of these have a small indicator that tells you how many places on that device Lightroom has found images. The bottom row shows 3 indicators, camera, card, and drive. The top row of 4 large selections are the folders where Lightroom has found images it can import-including those on flash cards or cameras. There are two rows of options in this screen, that correspond to folders and devices. The new import process starts with the “Add Photos” screen where you can select where to import your images from before you get to see the previews and make settings changes. With the default settings in place, Adobe has also changed around the import process slightly. At least for the time being, the new import screen does feel somewhat out of place. Unfortunately, the rest of Lightroom doesn’t follow this new styling. The new Add Photo screen, the first step in the new Lightroom import screen.Īdobe clearly seems to have embraced the whole flat UI aesthetic. There’s clearly some logic to it, but a lot of settings seem scattered around to some degree. Further, the layout is confusing if you’re not use to dealing with it. The styling is dated, at least if by modern flat UI standards. Lets start by quickly looking at the old Lightroom import screen. How this plays out for the rest of Lightroom remains to be seen. Presumably, or at least hopefully, this will be just the tip of a much needed overhaul in Lightroom’s UI and the Import screen was the easiest place for Adobe to start.
LIGHTROOM 6.2 APOLOGY UPDATE
With the September 2015 update for Lightroom CC, or Lightroom 6.2 for those non-Creative Cloud subscribers, Adobe has finally taken to changing Lightroom’s import screen. Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom has been around for almost a decade, and in that time, Adobe hasn’t really changed the interface in any meaningful way, that is, at least, until now.