To shoot tethered, select File > Tethered Capture > Start Tethered Capture. Currently the app supports cameras from Canon and Nikon, and Adobe says they expect this list to grow as testing is completed on other camera models. Related to importing, Lightroom 3 now includes a Tethered Capture option that lets you shoot directly into Lightroom. Once I've selected the settings I want to use, clicking on Save Current Settings as a New Preset will give me the options to save these settings for future use. On feature I've found very useful is the Presets option. Lightroom will display the subfolders that will be created as well as the number of images each folder will contrain.
You can drag the selection bar up or down to choose the location (or double click on the destination folder). On the right side of the import window is a Destination panel that lets you select where your images are placed.
Thumbnail size of images in the preview area is adjustable so you can take a closer look if you want to filter the images out prior to import. Import now fills your screen by default (you can collapse this to a smaller window if you like). With version 3, Importing has received a complete face-lift and gained some nice new features (Figure 1) Performance wasn't that impressive, and if you had different groups of images on a card, you needed to perform multiple imports to put these files in different locations. Importing in Lightroom 2 was a straight forward process, but it did have room for improvement. ImportingĪt it's heart, Lightroom is part digital asset manager - you need to import your images into the Lightroom database, either by copying them, or referencing them at a location on your drive, before you can use the tools or output your images. While Lightroom 2 is a popular option for many, the latest release adds some new features that improve the overall workflow and quality of output. Lightroom, unlike Photoshop, is built from the ground up for photography and the unique workflow that we have as digital photographers. Rather than dealing with 3D, vector graphics, and other general graphics tasks that aren't of interest to most of us, Lightroom distills the features down to what is important - image management and optimization. Close on the heels of Adobe's release of Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3.0 is now available.