Import from Lightroom to Lightroom

Is there a way to synchronize two copies of Lightroom (on different computers) or to merge the data from one computer onto the other?
On an extended photographic trip I need to tag my images daily, "in the field". I use an ultraportable (Sony TX 1GB, Vista Business, 160 GB external drive). I then need to import these images and their associated data into Lightroom on my desktop computer. Of course, its easy to move the images to permanent storage but what about the data. Can I put Lightroom on the ultraportable and then add the new images and data to the desktop copy of Lightroom at the end of each trip.

At the moment there is no facility within LR (to the best of my knowledge) for synchronising Libraries. This may be a feature in any future upgrade but who knows.
I myself have 3 x 500GB EHD's each having their own associated Library. On my PC back home I have the Lightroom programme installed. When I connect up one of the EHD's to the PC and start Lightroom it asks me which Library I want to use - I point it in the direction of the EHD and then import. Once the EHD is disconnected thumbnails remain in LR (on the PC) but the folder panel on the left shows a red file indicating that the full image cannot be accessed. You can edit Metadata and Keywords etc and these will be updated to the EHD next time it is connected. So in short, you will always have images on your PC irrespective of whether or not the EHD is connected or not - but only thumbnails.
If you need to free up your EHD I would suggest downloading them to your PC outside of Lightroom. Any metadata that you attached outside of LR e.g. in the field will be brought into LR when you open it up and use the Import function.

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I used to be able to import photos into lightroom when my camera is connected. I somehow am no longer able to do this, maybe because of updates, but I am not sure? I am using version 1.3.1 on a pc running windows vista professional, and my camera is a Canon Rebel Xti. The problem I have is that using windows to import is too slow and it has caused duplicate filenames of files. So I'd love to be able to have lightroom import from the camera like it used to. Cheers

Hello. I've seen photographers have portrait setups that have the camera connected to the computer, and as soon as they take a picture, the new image is imported.
I tried using "auto import" but it's not working properly. I'm shooting Nikon D200 and it has 2 USB modes: P2P and Mass Storage. In the former, I can't have "auto import" on because it needs to read from a folder and it's being read as a "device" instead. In the latter, I'd have to disconnect the camera to take the picture, reconnect it, but it doesn't detect a change (new picture) and so it won't auto-upload. I also have Bridge CS3 which I believe should do what I want it to do, but can't find it on there either.
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Please Help I have downloaded Lightroom and imported all my iphoto's (leaving them in the iphoto folder - Referenced) the issue is I seem to have a load of duplicates and the more I try to understand the file structure of iphoto the more i get confused in some cases it seems to hold 3 copy's of the same photo !!!!
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hello Andrew Jenkins,
I had the same problem. Iphoto makes two directories, one originals and one modified. If you have collections on screen in Iphote, the source will be partly from modified, but also from original. So if you import modified into lightroom, you will miss the files you did not touch, the unmodified. If you import originals in you will miss al the chages, but get all the files.
I could not think out a solution for this transport-problem but tough working. I decided to import the originals and work through everything again.
If yoy take the solution from Mr Wilkie you have to import from the modified directory, but you will miss the files you did not change.
kind regards,
lj dalmolen

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Questions:
1. I can't find the folder listed on my external hd for iPhoto. (When I choose "add" and I want all photos imported from iPhoto which are 44,000+)
2. Which are best settings? File Settings, previews, etc. I would like to save photos by albums, folders, events, tags. Is that possible?
3. I can't find any how to's on this.
I am using Yosemite on iMac desktop (all software is updated). I will be using my iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2 as well to sync. I just got Creative Cloud but surely will need to increase the size.

Hi podisc1,
How did you go about the export from iPhoto?
Did you use the iphoto importer to import from iPhoto? Aperture import plugin now available
Here's another help doc that should help as well. Lightroom Help | Import photos from iPhoto (Mac OS)
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Pete

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I use the Camera Neutral picture style on my Canon 5D mark ii when shooting landscape photogtraphy. I would like my photos to remain Camera Neutral when I import them. However, Lightroom always defaults the photos to Adobe Standard. Is there any way to make this not happen? I am fairly new to lightroom (used for 5 months) and would really appreciate the help as I am trying to import 16 gigs of Wallowa Mountain photogtraphy, and do not want to change each photo manualy.

If you always want Camera Neutral picture style to be applied, then open one of your images that you have imported and have changed nothing else in Lightroom. Set the camera profile to Camera Neutral and save new camera default settings. Then whenever you import that setting will be applied to all of your images.
If you don't always want that style, you could save a preset that applies the Camera Neutral picture style, and then you could choose to use that preset during the import process.
It is simply a matter of determining your workflow and then setting things the way you want them to work.

When importing from an old Lightroom 2 catalog into Lightroom 4 (also from Windows to Mac) I seem to have lost all the development history of my photos. Is there any way to retain that?

I finally managed to get through the process of moving files and catalog from Lightroom 2.7 on a PC to Lightroom 4 on my Mac. I think I did it all correctly and all my file and previews and some tagging seems to be there. Two things are lost
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2 - The collection names seem to have come over, but they are all empty. This is also a lot of work lost, though not as important as #1
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Import from iphone to Lightroom?

I'd like to import photos from my iphone 3Gs to my Lightroom 3 library but unfortunately my iphone is not visible as a device in the import dialogue in Lightroom... Before I update to Snow Leopard everytime I plugged the iphone Lightroom used to ask me if I'd liked to import the photos. Now this doesn't happens and that is my problem...
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Try this.
Connect the iPhone and open Image Capture.
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Select Lightroom as the application. It won't be on the list that is initially displayed, but you can browse to the location you have Lightroom application and select it.
Eject the iphone and close Image Capture.
Now reconnect the phone, and Lightroom application should now open automatically.
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I am a beginner--just downloaded trial of Lightroom and can't figure out how to import my photos from iPhoto. Any help would be appreciated....thanks!

To simply import the original files is quite a simple process.
Locate the iPhoto Library (default is your Pictures Folder). Right click on it and select "Show Package Contents".
Locate the Masters folder and drag it onto the Lightroom icon or an open Library window. This will invoke the Import command.
Be sure "Include Subfolders" is checked.
Now you can import all the original files.
If your goal is to maintain structure of the Events it gets a little more tedious. Drag the event onto the Lightroom icon or the Library window. Once imported you can group them into a Collection Name that mimics the Event.
Repeat with other events.
With the impending demise of iPhoto and Aperture, I suspect Apple may be working with Adobe to develop an automated process that will also maintain metadata that was added in those programs. If you can wait a while, it may be worth it.

Image looks quite different when imported from camera to Lightroom

Hi there,
I am hoping that there is someone out there that might be able to help me with a problem I have.
I took a number of photos yesterday and I uploaded them to lightroom. The photos looked properly exposed with a nice color on the camera LCD screen. When I imported and then opened these photos in Lightroom, I noticed that the photos were underexposed with an orange cast on skintones. The photos were not very nice at all, and I played with levels etc, but could not get the same look I saw on the LCD.
I shot in JPG Fine, colour profile in camera is Adobe RGB (1998). imac monitor is calibrated.
Has anyone experienced this or know how I might be able to correct the image to look more like what I am seeing on the LCD when I am shooting?
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Since you are shooting jpeg, it is not the profile issue, so there are a small list of causes left.
1. The camera LCD is lying to you. This is very possible, but most cameras have a display that, while not trustworthy absolutely, at least renders skintones sort of OK. You can test this by posting one of your originals (so NOT the lightroom edited versions) somewhere for us to see. We can check if the skintones are normal.
2. The calibration is bad. Sometimes calibration hardware is simply defective and you will get bad results no matter what. To check this, use a color managed browser (Safari since you have a Mac is fine) and check out this page. The top image should look OK (normal skintones) no matter if you roll over your mouse or not.
3. If it is not 1 or 2, Lightroom is applying either auto-tone or some camera defaults to your images or you are applying a develop preset upon import. Check this by opening the original directly in preview and comparing to the version in Lightroom. If this is the case, go to your Lightroom preferences, hit the Presets Tab. Uncheck "Apply auto tone adjustments". Then click on "reset all default Develop settings". Now go back to your images and "reset" their develop settings, which is easy to do in the quick develop panel you get in Library. Also, next time you import, make sure you do not have any presets selected.

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Hi guys,
Wondering if anyone else has experienced this same problem. For the longest time, import was working perfectly. I plug my SD card in (Sony SDHC class 10 32gb) and go to import, CAMERASD pops up in devices, and my files are all there, and I check the ones I want to import, and they import. Easy as that.
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My hardware/software
Olympus OM-D E-M10
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Uninstalling and reinstalling Lightroom fresh. Same issue.
Switching to a brand new SD card. Same issue.
Importing one photo or multiple photos from SD at a time. Same issue.
Importing from SD into iPhoto, works fine.
I'm dying to find a solution for this problem, it has completely KILLED my workflow to the point where I just don't bother importing and editing my photos anymore because it is such a lengthy process (select and import dozens into LR only to realize it's not going to work, go back into Finder and find the same photos one by one and copy over, then go back to LR and import into LR catalog). I have no idea what is the problem, and seeing as it just recently started happening, it seems to be a mac software support issue. Anyone ever experience anything similar, and what do I have to do to get my workflow up and running again??
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Are you seeing any error message?
If no then go to your Lightroom preferences > General tab> at the bottom of dialog box Prompts> select "Reset all warning dialogs".
Try another import. Any error message now?
Hint! Check the Drive / Folder / sub-folder where you are copying the file to, and ensure you have full Read and Write permissions. Your update to Yosomite may have changes things.

Lightroom 5.5 Import from Catalog *very* slow performance.

Importing from a second catalog from a shoot is *very* slow with the last version or couple of versions of Lightroom. It's been about 20 minutes and the import is moving glacially slow and is only about 20% done.
Here are as many stats as I have:
iMac 27" 3.5Ghz Core i7, 32G of ram, 3T fusion drive (the late 2013 model maxed out)
Master catalog has 117,000 images in it.
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Selected to import all, changing metadata and develop edits, and selecting to put new images in the folder (not sure why it asked as there weren't any new images)
The last time I did an import I started it and then went out somewhere so I didn't notice how long it took, but this seems completely crazy. In the time it's taken to write this up it's now about 20 minutes later and the progress bar is maybe at the 33% range. It's still working away, it's just crazy crazy slow.
Anything to help out or debug would be greatly appreciated. I suspect it's pure size of the catalog, but 120k isn't outside the realm of what I've heard people say works fine, or maybe the Fusion drive (maybe the OS is trying to move files around behind the scenes)?
Either way this didn't seem to be an issue until the last couple of versions (I haven't gone and re-installed 5.4 or 5.3 to check) and it's starting to really frustrate me

Hi Jim,
Great suggestion! It opens perfectly fine on its own. I even went as far as re-exporting it once it loaded but am still experiencing the same issue. That same catalog loads perfectly fine on my assistant's iMac.
I can't really think about anything that changed in my environment with the exception of a new Bootcamp partition to run windows on an external Thunderbolt HD but I doubt this is related.
I'm open to any suggestions while I am trying this again... 10 minutes of 'Checking for changed and duplicate photos'.

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hi. when i try this import, i cannot do the following step:
"Specify the photos to import:
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there is a dash mark / hyphen marking several of the boxes that represent the various folders - like so.
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Hey Guys, How do I export photos from iPhoto to Lightroom? I deleted them from the SD Card so I cannot import them directly to Lightroom. Im using a mac so its all very confusing for me. Please help me., Hey Guys, How do I export photos from iPhoto to Lightroom? I deleted them from the SD Card so I cannot import them directly to Lightroom. Im using a mac so its all very confusing for me. Please help me.

To simply import the original files is quite a simple process.
Locate the iPhoto Library (default is your Pictures Folder). Right click on it and select "Show Package Contents".
Locate the Masters folder and drag it onto the Lightroom icon or an open Library window. This will invoke the Import command.
Be sure "Include Subfolders" is checked.
Now you can import all the original files.
If your goal is to maintain structure of the Events it gets a little more tedious. Drag the event onto the Lightroom icon or the Library window. Once imported you can group them into a Collection Name that mimics the Event.
Repeat with other events.
With the impending demise of iPhoto and Aperture, I suspect Apple may be working with Adobe to develop an automated process that will also maintain metadata that was added in those programs. If you can wait a while, it may be worth it.

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