P: view larger thumbnails when importing to Lightroom

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January 18, 2018
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I've recently begun importing into Lightroom cc instead of classic so that I can take advantage of the cloud storage and have raw files everywhere. However, I can't find a way to enlarge the thumbnails in the add photos screen. With classic, you are able to select individual images before importing and view them larger which is really helpful when comparing two similar photos for which one is sharper. I really don't want to have to import every picture on my card in order to decide if its sharp enough to keep. is there a command or option in settings to allow this that I am overlooking? thanks.

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Roba_r

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The new CC isn't made for professionals so most of the important features are missing.

And this is definitely good way to make money, because you can't enlarge pics before importing so you end up uploading all pics to cloud. Soon you'll be buying more cloud space. Or like me changing to Capture One.

Deal breaker. It wouldn't be if Classic would be more modern.

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mitchellslaurie

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While in the import window, you can just press 'e' on your keyboard (shortcut for 'expand/enlarge') and the photo will become larger. Then, you can use the shortcut 'p' to select a photo and 'x' to deselect a photo. (I'm not sure which version of Lightroom I'm using...)

greenknight30

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What I've been doing is opening the card in Windows/uploading the whole card to a RAW dropbox file. Then I go from there, identify photos I want to keep and move only those into Lightroom CC. I am not keeping all my photos in CC either. WAY too little storage and I pay for other storage so...