Lightroom is Adobe’s all-in-one photography software, designed for organizing, editing, and sharing your photos. One of the most important things to know about Lightroom, is that it performs nondestructive edits. What this means is that the changes you are adding to your image in Lightroom are not actually being performed to the original file. The adjustments that you are making are written to a completely separate file as a list of instructions, so that what you see in Lightroom is a preview of the original image combined with the list of changes made to it. This is important for two main reasons. First, you can completely alter the appearance of your photo without ever actually changing the original image. You don’t have to worry about ruining the photo as any step can always be undone. Secondly, you never save your adjustments as you are probably accustomed to in other types of software, since you are never reaching a point when all of your edits are locked in to the original image. This will be explained further in future parts of this series. ...more

Total Beginner’s Guide to Lightroom – Step by Step

Importing Photos

The first thing you see once you have your memory card connected is a grid with tiny thumbnail previews of all the pictures on your memory card.

Note: You can also connect to your camera directly – however, it’s a better idea to use a card reader then plug in your camera directly. If the camera battery dies during import you can crash the card and damage or lose your images.

• At the top of your screen, select the option that says “Copy.” 

• On the right-hand side you have to choose a Destination 

• Choose which pictures to import