LRC - camera-lens settings for every photo, automatically?

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Hi, a bit new to LRC though having used Photoshop since v. 3.0, I find LRC astonishly cumbersome for making lens corrections universally. So, I wanted to have my camera-lens system settings to work automatically with every new Nikon NEF file moved to an appropriate folder. Sure, there was no straightforward solution. By one approach, I only found a way to make the settings to the photo on the screen. Therefore, I needed to make a search in Internet, and I found that there are _a way to many steps_ that I would like to use LRC for anything else than sorting my project's 700 pictures. How come can LR be so important photo app, as it is like MS's PowerPoint some 30 yrs ago??? In that program, there was no intuition at all to make it work. You just needed to remember all its steps by heart. LRC is similar. Regards, Tuomas

Conrad_C · Answer

It’s not completely clear what you want, so just to understand, do you have two goals:

1. Apply lens corrections to every imported image?

2. Move every NEF file to one folder, or different folders depending on lens or content?

For goal 1, you can make an import preset that automatically applies corrections for the lens detected in the EXIF camera data. How to do that:

Setting Custom Raw Defaults in Lightroom Classic – Julieanne Kost

If you want to apply lens corrections to many images, you can sync settings or copy and paste settings.

For goal 2, for images already imported you can use the Library filter to isolate by image criteria, then select those images and drag them to any folder you like. If you only need to see the same criteria every time, you can save a Filter Preset or Smart Collection for one-click isolation of whatever criteria you want.

Both of those are fast and easy to do. Or do you need to explain your goals more specifically? How do you want to sort the images into folders?

It’s interesting that you should mention Photoshop, because all these tasks either cannot be done in Photoshop or would take much, much more time and work than in Lightroom Classic. That is because Lightroom Classic is based on a multiple-image database, and Photoshop is not.

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