All language subtitles for 56 - Auto Import with Watch Folder

So far, we've learned
how to manually add images to our catalog

using folders in subfolders.

In addition to these two methods,
Lightroom gives us the ability

to automatically import images from a user

defined watch folder.

The images from the watch folder

would be automatically placed
to a destination folder.

To demonstrate how this works.

I'll set up a new folder on my desktop
called Watch

Folder.

You could give this folder
any name you like.

I just chose watch folder
because it's relevant to this tutorial.

Once you've set up your folder, head
back to Lightroom

and click on the file menu

and select auto import from the submenu.

Select Auto Import Settings.

Now over here where you see watched

folder, you'll need to select the folder
you want to use.

In Lightroom
will monitor this folder in any time.

Any images.

Go into this folder to automatically
be put into another folder.

The folder that they'll be put into
is known as the destination folder

and as you probably guessed,

we would want our destination folder
to be the My Lightroom photos directory.

That is the source
of all the images in our catalog.

So what folder?

Just click the Choose button

and select the

watch folder.

The destination We want to move

any images
that are inserted into the watch folder.

We want to put them in the
My Lightroom photos directory.

So click choose

and I'll just go back to desktop.

And there it is, my Lightroom photos.

Now it's asking
if we want to please these images

into a subfolder when they're transferred
from the watch folder.

So just leave. That is default.

We'll have Lightroom

transfer them into a new subfolder
called Auto Imported photos.

You can leave all the other settings
as default because we don't want Lightroom

to automatically change
the name of the imported images

or apply any type of

metadata to the image as it's imported.

You can if you like, but for the purpose
of this lesson, it's not necessary.

Before clicking, okay, make sure you place
a checkmark in this checkbox here.

Enable auto import.

And that's going to activate
this whole process.

Now click okay.

Now we can go ahead and run a test
to see if our watch folder works.

So I'll minimize Lightroom again.

So here's my Lightroom photos.

I'll go ahead and open that up
and I'm going to open up the watch folder.

Now you'll need to find two images and
you can use any images on your computer.

It doesn't matter.

I have this image

and also this image that I like to use.

So I'm going to take these images

and I'm going to transfer them
into the watched folder

and watch what happens when I do that.

So you can see that

they're actually being transferred
and removed from the watch folder.

A new directory has automatic been created

in the My Lightroom folders directory
and if I expand it, you can see

the two images that we initially placed
in the watch folder.

Now we'll head back to Lightroom

and in Lightroom

we can see that image 15

is the Peacock image that was added

and 58 is the other image
that was automatically

added to our catalog
from the watch folder.

So as you can see, that's

another great way to keep your catalog
updated with new images.