Comments on: Video – Importing Raw + JPEGs into Lightroom

By: Art5

Art5 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:55:33 +0000

I am having the very same problem with my Canon 60D. I have the latest codec from Canon for raw files installed?

By: Art5

Art5 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:53:23 +0000

Even though my preferences are set to import both raw and jpeg. Lightroom 3 refuses to import the raw .cr2 files from my Canon 60D?

By: BillC

BillC — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:06:17 +0000

Hi and thank you for the blog and the tips… I am new to lightroom in version 3 and came from just using spit, sweat, bailing wire and bridge before this.

One question – you say that LR will ignore the JPG and only import the RAW files… I’ve noticed that it has been moving the JPG’s to the hard drive regardless, taking up an extra 30% space for each image.

1) Why is it doing this to me?

2) Can I just delete the JPG files to regain the space?

Thanks again!

By: Philip Drew

Philip Drew — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:27:26 +0000

I have a Sony DSLR-A 300 camera and cannot import raw images into Lightroom 2.3. Do I require additional software or can I do this. What is the procedure.

By: Todd Logan

Todd Logan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:54:27 +0000

I shoot in RAW+JPG as well. If I import from a folder or card reader that contains both file types, when I hover over the image in Lightroom, it has the file extension of .CR2+JPEG. What is the prefered methodology? Is it better to work on just the .CR2 files and not import the .JPEG files?

By: Dilip Barman

Dilip Barman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:14:22 +0000

I shoot in RAW + JPG; I upload the JPGs to a private online gallery as one more form of backup, then delete the JPGs and finally import the RAW images into LR. I checked that I had the checkbox off to treat JPGs as separate files, but when I just imported, all the files, JPG and RAW, were moved to the target folder, though of course only the RAW were in my catalog. So I guess I need to stick to my old methodology of first deleting the JPGs before import.

By: Dave E

Dave E — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:47:47 +0000

A bit off topic but similar. I use Nik plugins with LR and end up with a lot of edits tree2222.tif–tree2222-edit.tif –tree2222-edit- edit2.tif etc. Is there any way around this auto renaming scheme? Perhaps just a sufix1-2-3 or something.
Enjoy the tips.

By: Jim Lewis

Jim Lewis — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:07:53 +0000

I just want to say how valuable this blog is. I just returned from a trip to Tanzania where I took 2,203 images. I imported then all into Lightroom each evening, using keywords and organizing into collections based on subject and location. I made the image pics in Lightroom and did the lion’s share (sorry about that) of the adjustments there. I uploaded selects to a daily blog, Facebook, and my own website using Lightroom plug-ins. I printed all but 17 large gallery prints using Lightroom’s Print module. A lot of what I learned I picked up from Matt’s tips, links, and videos and the input of other contributors here. (The shortcuts list of a few days ago was just an example.) Although it’s not required, it’s part of my self-justification for maintaining my NAPP membership. Thanks, Matt and other contributors.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:07:24 +0000

What tool do you use to capture your video/voice for preparing these tutorials ? (can someone recommend one for a PC ?)

By: csace

csace — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:24:04 +0000

great advice Matt thanks,

i have a tip re catalogues, you know when you mouse over the cat list and it shows a preview in the nav panel of an image in that catalogue? sometimes its not the best image and can be distracting if eg showing clients etc.

now i put the sweetest image first in the catalogue and thats the one that shows up