How to Bulk Import Photos Into Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019
Watch Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019 video training tutorial below. Learn how you can bulk import a large number of images from a folder.
Welcome back to our course on PSE 2019. In this section, we’re going to take a look at the Bulk Import option. You can skip this section if you’ve done this before in a relatively recent version of PSE,
First, what is Bulk Import? Secondly, I’ll demonstrate the use of Bulk Import. Lastly, I’ll show you how to change the folders.
First things, you would have seen Import dialog when you first opened the Organizer on your device. Let’s take a look at that now from the File menu, Get Photos and Videos in Bulk. And that brings up this Import Media dialog.
Now, what you see here will very much depend on which folders you have listed on the left. I have Pictures, which is a default folder. Dropbox. I use Dropbox for Cloud storage.
You may have a different selection of folders on the left. You can change the selection of folders on the left.
By default is that the folders on the left are selected and the subfolders within the folders are selected as well. If all I did now was to click Import. I would import all the contents of those 272 subfolders selected from two folders.
The big advantage of this is that you start off with things being selected if all you want to do is to get everything. It’s a really quick way of getting everything.
It can be very helpful when you have a new installation of the Organizer. It can be very useful in other situations, such as when you have a new network folder available to you.
You can add it to your list of folders on the left there. Do an import and then all suitable media in that folder and its subfolders can be imported with a single click on the Import button.
Now, of course, you can do this using the Get from Files and Folders option that we’ve already looked at. But there you have to specifically go through and select what you want. Here you start off with it selected and then you deselect what you don’t want.
The basic procedure for importing everything in both of those folders is just to hit the Import button. But let’s suppose that I want to deselect some folders. Let’s suppose that I’m not going to import everything in the Pictures folder.
If I uncheck Pictures, you might expect that all the subfolders on the right there will be unchecked as well. But in fact, what happens is that the names of the subfolders change from blue to green.
Now, I still can’t quite figure out why Adobe do it this way but they do. Once you deselect the Pictures folder; the subfolders here are each green. If I wanted to just get the pictures for one subfolder, if I clicked on it it would turn blue again.
Basically, the subfolders that I’m going to import from are the ones that are blue and the green ones will not be imported.
Let’s suppose that all I’m going to import on this occasion is the contents of the folder that I’ve checked there. If I want to see the rest of the thumbnails for that folder click on the 32 number there and the rest of the thumbnails will appear.
Let’s suppose, I’m going to import those. But I’m not going to import anything from the Dropbox. So, click on Import and there is the total, 46 pictures that were imported from that subfolder.
Adding and deleting folders is pretty straightforward. If I wanted to add a folder to the list on the left click on Add Folder.
Having browsed to the folder that I want to add, I click on OK and as with the other selected folders what PSE will then do is to prepare thumbnails for the images in that folder and its subfolders.
Let me just click on that folder. There are four images. It currently will be included in an import if I performed one.
Removing a folder is pretty straightforward as well. I’ll keep this particular folder selected, click on Remove and it’s no longer included.
The final thing to mention here is those little binocular icons there. Those two indicate that these folders are what are called Watch folders. We will discuss Watch folders later on in the course, but that’s it for this section.
I’ll see you in the next one.
Adam Lacey
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