For more information on picture processing states Click Here.
Preview and Import - Quickstart
- Take some pictures
- Connect your camera to, or insert SD card into your computer. Your camera will appear (see a. below)
- Choose an existing library or create a new one. See b. below
- Selecting existing or new library (c. below) and processing option (d. below)
- Import (.f below)your pictures; they will be imported and stored in the library you select.
Preview Options and Features (Desktop 4.3 or higher):
- Camera connected (a.) - When your camera or SD card is connected to your computer, the viewing area switches to Camera View where you can select images to import.
- Pictures in the Camera View screen are thumbnails only and do not display depth-related features like refocus.
- New/All Pictures Toggle (c.) - “New” displays pictures that have not yet been imported; “All Pictures” displays all pictures on your SD card.
- Select images to preview
- Holding shift and clicking will selected all of the images from the first selected to the last
- Holding command (mac) or control (win) will allow you to select multiple pictures individually
Import and Process Pictures:
- Select pictures you want to import
- Import to Album… (b.) - Select an album to import them to or create a new album
- Process now or later - The “Process Immediately” checkbox (d.) tells Desktop if you want to process your pictures now or later:
- Checked - Processes all pictures as they import into the selected library
- Unchecked - Pictures will do a “Fast Import” and can be processed later, when convenient or as needed.
- NOTE - Unprocessed preview images don’t have living picture effects such as refocus.
- For more information on picture processing states Click Here.
- "Delete from Camera" (e.) - controls whether pictures are deleted from your SD card after import.
- NOTE - "Delete after import" is a permanent removal of the pictures from your SD card and they cannot be recovered
3. Import All / Import Selected (f.) - Imports all or selected previewed images on the SD card
- "Import All" appears when no thumbnails are selected.
- "Import Selected" [Mac] or "Import X pictures" [Windows] appears when you have images selected.
4. Your pictures will appear one at a time in the selected Library.
- If you didn’t process your images as they import, you’ll need to process them one at a time to view living picture effects. Initiate processing via:
- Double-click or
- Select “Reprocess” (In the ‘Picture’ dropdown
- Right-clicking/CTRL+clicking a thumbnail)
- Once your images have imported, you can organize them in albums, use adjustment tools to edit them, or apply animations.
- For more information on picture processing states Click Here.
Notes:
- When in doubt, we recommend importing pictures from your camera instead of deleting them. The depth features that are unique to the Lytro experience will often reveal elements within a scene that cannot be recognized in a 2D thumbnail.
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