Get there guys, welcome to Motorfields and Rob Hamilton, so nice to have you with us today. I was just down in the car wash. I just washed my bike, I took some photos. Just a cool little scene with the water and the nice shiny reflections and everything. And I was just like, uh, because it's all a bit rainy. This whole week's just been a bit of a, the days I had off was raining. The days I had on was beautiful, good day for riding and I was going to take a sick bike for a test ride. Didn't end up happening. I was just washing my bike and I'm like, what do I do? What do I show the guys this week? Then I thought, how about this? Three years ago when I bought my camera, I had no idea what the hell I was doing. I bought my camera, I was like, yeah, take some photos. And I was just like, cool. I don't know. What is raw? What is JPEG? What is life? And then I made, I made just mention to me, he's just like, hey bro, like you should, you should use light room. Okay, light room. What the heck is light room? Downloaded it, download the Adobe suite with Photoshop in the light room and then I was just like sick. Okay, cool. Now, like now what the heck do I do? It stuck my memory card in and I was just like, I don't, I just don't know how to organize my files. I don't know how to organize, I don't know how to organize my life here. So this is something that took me a little while to get the hang of it even just naming the files so I can just find them in a later time or if they've gone missing and I can just be like, oh, that was in, that was June, that was that June and that was that year. Oh my, found it. Got it. So this helps you organize your photos right from the start, right from the get-go so that you can just keep the system going and you know, you'll be sweet. It'll be sweet for years to come. I've been using this for three years now since 2017. And so here we are. I thought I would just save you guys the hassle, share my system and yeah, and you'll be organized. You'll be an organized photographer. Um, organization is key. You need to be organized. Be organized man. Come on man. Come on man. Look at this. Look at my health. Organized. Okay, so first you are going to open up a lighter room at a classic. Look at the new icon. Take a nice and fresh and then you're going to insert your memory card. Boom. Just like so. This should take you automatically to the import dialogue screen. Now if it doesn't, just cancel that for you. Just go to library, top right hand corner and then you're going to hit import bottom left. Doosh. And that's the import dialogue screen. And there are all the photos that I just took from in the garage. I did a little bit of video there as well. Because video is always nice to have. Okay, so on the left hand side here, this is the source side. This is where you'll be importing from. It can be hard drive, it can be memory card, it can be whatever. This is where it's going to be. This is where you're going to be importing from. I've just checked, eject after import. So as soon as it finishes importing, poof, it's going to inject that memory card out. And I'm including subfolders as well. So I don't have to go through here and click each one and find out where all the photos are. Let's hit it. Boom, they're all there. Happy days, good times indeed. And now if you look down the bottom here, you'll see that 71 photos are selected and it's two gigabytes worth. Here down the bottom also you have your grid view, which you can just hit G and that's what we're in right now. And you can hit this mode, they call it loop, loop, loop, loop, loop, loop, loop, loop. You can just hit E. So E and G. Boom, E, G, bang, done. So down the bottom here is your source so you can sort it by whatever you wish you. This might have just done by file type, whatever. Sometimes I do it by the capture time, but I feel like for importing, it doesn't really matter. And the thumbnail size, you just drag that if you want to see big and larger. So I still go through and select which ones I wanted imported by going E here and then go like this and then like, you know, next, next. And then like, when you're doing a lot of photos, you're shooting like a birthday party where a wedding of something, man, you're going through like thousands of photos just like this. That's taken some time. And so I've learned to just stuff that. Just check them all. You're just going to check them all and you're going to import the whole bunch apart from the video. We don't want the videos in here. So we're going to highlight these. Let's click there, shift click to the end, hit space, that D selects that whole bunch there or you can just check it. So the top here you have copy is D and G, copy, move and add. Now copy is D and G, degrades the quality a little bit, which I'm not really keen on. So I just use copy and that's literally going to copy it from my source, from my memory card, boom, to my hard drive. If you hit move, that's going to move it to a set location without copying. And if you hit add, it's only going to add it to your Lightroom catalog and not move anything anywhere. So if you're importing from your memory card like we are, hit copy and now this is where you choose your location. Now the way I like to organize my files is year, month. If it's photo or video and then this is the shoot that I did. If it's like a car shoot, motorbike shoot, car park, whatever, whatever you did, this is where you describe the shoot that you just did on that day or that time. So you're going to hit that, I go to other destination, you're going to choose where you'd like the destination to be. So for me, I'll just hit Lacey to that is my bad boy. 2020, you can go new folder, you can create everything from here so then you can just do 2020. That's where you're starting off. 2020 boom, you've got your months. We are in June. Boom, hit that bad boy, photos, usually have videos as well. I think I started running out of space in this. It's my other hard drive. Who cares? And bam, there are my photo shoots from this month so far. So you're going to hit new folder, just like that. I'm going to call this car wash. So simple. You want to choose that? Done. Now that's made up of folder onto your hard drive. Easy as pie. You didn't even open up your hard drive. You can just do everything from a light room. Light room is a beast, man. Good for organizing your stuff. OK, now moving down. You want to check build smart previews. You can explain this in more detail later, but basically it's going to make a very small style preview of the photo that you're going to be editing. Instead of trying to load up like a 20 or 30 or 40 meg photo every time you do something. This just helps with performance for your machine. Don't import suspected duplicates. Obvious reasons. If you don't have that check, then you can just import a whole bunch of photos that you're already having there. Then you're just there forever just being like, ah crap, I've got doubles, I've got triples, I've got coin drooples. Check that. I don't have that issue. You're going to say check, make a second copy. That's if you wish to backup your stuff on import straightaway. It's pretty handy. And then you're going to select add to collection. And this is where you can create collections as per your folder name, just to make everything nice and synced up and handy. And so we're just going to hit that little plus sign here. And we're going to say car wash baby. Just like that, it's going to go inside of a mode it feels. And these are all like again categories of subcategories, but I had that many categories here that I just had to put all break it all back down into something that's a little bit more organized. You're going to hear to create boom. There we go. So car wash is in there. And that is pretty much it. You can do fire, you name, you can do all this stuff, I don't know. I've never, I've just never done it. I don't know. This is all I do and it's worked every time and it's good. Maybe I'll learn something down the road and I'll let you guys know. I'll keep you in the loop. And then you hit import, boom. And they just let it do its thing. A little tip though. Maybe just close down what you can in your little bar here. Three on windows, just close all these programs that are running in the background. Because Lightroom does suck a bit of performance power out of your machines. You might just want to close in as much as you can, especially web browsers like Google, Safari, Firefox, it's still even a thing. Close them down and your machine will perform way better because Lightroom is a little bit of a beast. You can see the top there it's putting smart previews now that's already all imported. Boom. That's it. We're done. We've got the collection here, car wash, dush and they're all there. And that is basically how you import your photos into Lightroom. And I'm just going to show you, I'll just show you this folder now. So now this is going into my hard drive on my computer. I'm going to open it up, put the June folder, photos and car wash is where, right there. Boom. And they're all in there. Bam. Look at that. Nice big. Look at that 30.2 megs. But the preview is literally like eight kilobytes or something. So you want to use that preview thing and I'll explain in the next tutorial why when we go through when picking shoes which one we want really, really fast. That's how, look at this workflow thing down because this stuff can take time if you don't know how to do it right. When you have a good workflow, you can come home from a shoot, smash the memory card in, bam. Now you know how to import your photos and then we'll just go, and we'll just quickly pick and choose which ones we want, which ones we don't want. Disguide, delete, see you later and we only have the ones that we want to keep forever. There it is guys. It's that easy. Now if you keep the system up, you're going to have this nice organized filing system that you can easily access at any time throughout your career in photography, hobby or whatever. If there was a sheet that you're like, oh, I'm pretty sure that was in September of 2019. Boom. You can just go there. That's the same with video. You just do the exact same thing with video. Just drag it from your memory card, boom, into your folder and they're there and it's nice and organized. You've got your life sorted. Alright guys, thank you so much for watching. I hope you like this tutorial. This little mini tutorial. Super basic, super easy. Just want to get you guys over the hurdle or just being like, oh, for the shop, my room. What do I do? What do I do? And if I did, please hit like, hit subscribe. Love to hear from you. Drop me a comment. Let me know how I did and I'll see you guys next week's video. Peace legends.