You may or may not be aware, but there are two 'sizes' of the Lightroom import window - the compact version and the full version. Odds are you're seeing the compact version. If what you're seeing looks like the attached, click the drop arrow in the lower left.
Mike.
Thanks for the reply.
Working with full version. To paraphrase Seth in the tutorial...'I placed the card in the reader and Lightroom pops a dialog box and the first thing we see here is File Handling'. It shows this box on his screen as he's talking about it. When I put a card in my reader, NO dialog box pops up. In Preferences I do have "Show import dialog when a memory card is detected' checked, but Lightroom just loads the files into the main library page, no box. Apologies if I'm using the wrong terminology, this is all new and my head is still in Bridge/PS land.
How de heck do I get this dialog box to appear? I also went back over the most of the LR3 tutorial, and other than a brief mention in the Importing session, could find nothing on templates. This elusive dialog box seems to be the only way to create templates, and if so, can it be brought up at will or just when a card is detected? I need to import my legacy images and want to apply this template to them as well.
I've gone through Lightroom's prefs and menues so many times I'm crosseyed.
Stop Press...I think I figured it out. Seems a separate dialog box no longer pops up, but templates are now in File Handling in the right panel of Import. Hope this is the answer, will explore later and report back. I'll leave this mess as is in case others are beating their head against this as well.