1. Explain the purpose of importing and culling
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Importing and Culling
Learn to transfer files safely and select photographs with consistent criteria.
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What you will learn
2. Apply a practical method to transfer files safely and select photographs with consistent criteria
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3. Recognise the main technical, safety or professional risk
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4. Review the result and record one useful improvement
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Step-by-step practice
Step 1. Identify why importing and culling matters to the photograph you want to make.
Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.
Step 3. Practise how to transfer files safely and select photographs with consistent criteria.
Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.
Step 5. Complete this activity: Import one session, create a second copy and reduce it to a strong first selection.
Safe and responsible practice: Keep untouched originals, document significant edits and confirm rights before publishing.
Practical activity
Complete and record this task
Import one session, create a second copy and reduce it to a strong first selection.
Good-practice checklist
Original files remain untouched
Export settings match the destination
Complete the practical activity for importing and culling
Record settings or decisions that produced the best result
Review the result on a second screen or as a print
Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant
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