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Now that you know how to add existing photos on your hard disk to your Luminar library, it’s time to move forward. You’re back from a photo shoot and you want to unload the camera’s memory card into Luminar. Copy images from a memory card or connected camera using the following steps:

1 1. With the memory card inserted or your camera connected to the computer, choose File > Import Images to a Folder. Or, you can select a folder in the Folders list of the Library panel, right-click it, and choose Import Images to this Folder.

2 2. Select the card as the source. In Windows, click the Browse button and specify the card’s drive; on macOS, navigate to the card using the Locations sidebar item.

3 3. From the Import To pop-up menu, pick the folder on your disk where the images will reside (Figure 2-17).

FIGURE 2-17: Import new photos from a memory card in Luminar for Windows (left) and macOS (right).

1 4. Under Action, choose Copy Images. The alternative is to choose Move Images, which deletes the files from the card, but it’s better to format the card in the camera later. Move Images is a good option if you’re importing photos from another folder or drive and want to consolidate them into one of your source folders.

2 5. From the Organize pop-up menu, decide which folder structure to store the imported images in. Although Luminar breaks out capture dates (see “Use Library Shortcuts” in Chapter 10), I find it’s helpful to have a folder structure in place on disk in case I need to access the images outside of Luminar. Choose from the following options:Into One Folder, which drops all the images into a single folder.Keep Existing Folder Structure, which mimics what’s on the card. This option is fine when importing from an existing folder, but not as ideal with memory cards, which often have a cumbersome naming structure (such as, using one of my cards as an example, Untitled/DCIM/158_FUJI/).Year/Month/Day, which separates the images into separate nested subfolders based on the date, such as /Pictures/2020/01/12/ for photos captured on January 12, 2020.Year/Month, which groups photos into nested folders based on the month they were captured in, such as /Pictures/2020/01/ for photos captured in January 2020.

3 6. Select the Include Subfolders checkbox to read nested folders on the card. If this option is not selected, Luminar sees only images in the folder you specified in step 2.

4 7. Click the Import (Windows) or Import to Folder (macOS) button to add the images to your library.