Move will take the files from their current location and move them to wherever you designate in the Destination Panel in the Importing Dialog Box. It isn’t wrong if you do, as long as you do so with intention. I haven’t found a compelling enough reason to get me to convert all my RAW files into DNGs so I don’t convert my files to DNGs. Once you convert to DNG, you cannot go back to your camera brand’s proprietary RAW data file. The last thing to note is that DNG is a one-way street. However, it achieves this smaller size through its compression and by removing some of the camera manufacturer’s specific propriety RAW data, such as Active-D Lighting or the Pictures Profiles for Nikon or Sony’s Pixel-shift technology. It just depends if your camera brand already applies lossless compression to your RAW file. And it’s good, but so are all of your name-brand RAW file formats.ĭNGs are claimed to be about 15-20% smaller in size. The purpose of the DNG is to serve as a universal RAW file format to easily work across all of Adobe’s products. DNG files are Adobe’s version of a RAW file. The Difference Between Copy as DNG, COPY, MOVE, and ADD in LightroomĬopy as DNG means that Lightroom will convert your camera’s proprietary RAW file format (NEF for Nikon, CR3 for Canon, etc.) to a DNG file. This permanent location is generally either on our computer’s hard drive or an external hard drive. We want to copy those files from the SD card to the hard drive location where we will permanently store the files. The majority of the time, we are connecting our SD cards to our computers. Our import options are to either Copy as DNG, Copy, Move, or Add.įirst, be consistent in how you get your images from your camera to the computer. Second, not being consistent in how they import causes issues. First, people not paying attention to their choice at the top of the import dialog box causes issues. Now, I find that the majority of issues when importing your photos into Lightroom come from two things.
To start, let’s assume we’re photographing in the RAW format. Sometimes, it’s a few too many choices so my preference is to simplify the process. Lightroom is a powerhouse so naturally when you open the import dialog box, you have a plethora of choices. Lightroom Importing Issue #1: Designating the Wrong Import Action
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