How are you using Lightroom Mobile?
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I posted some months ago about moving from prettier to Lightroom and have spent a bit of time since getting my head round catalogues, different workflows etc.
But I'm curious about LR Mobile.
Are you using it? If so, how?
Currently, I'm really just using it as a viewer to show other people images I've finished with. As in, sync the holiday photos with LR mobile and then show my parents on the iPad, kind of thing. Not especially exciting really. I'll use it to do basic editing on the odd photo I snap on the iPhone itself but I don't really use the flagging and rating side of it at all.
I'd like to be able to do this:
1) Shoot JPEG + RAW
2) Import JPEG to iPad whilst on location
3) Review JPEGS and select 'keepers' and bin the rubbish, maybe do a tiny bit of PP and post to social media
4) Get home, take in the RAWs off the card
5) Somehow sync my selections/edits already made to the JPEG images to the CR2s as the come in and thus be magically left with a nice neat collection without any need for further reviewing or rating.[/i]
I appreciate I could sort of do this by using the copy develop settings function but it's not really neat and in all honesty, I'd rather just wait, use my laptop and do it all at once.
As it stands, I tend to use the iPad to view/post the JPEGs via the Photos app whilst I'm away from a computer and just leave LR Mobile alone.
I feel like it should be an absolutely superb tool, but I appreciate that Adobe are being massively limited by Apple's iOS Camera Roll restrictions - hope it gets freed up a bit in the future.
Anyway, just posting as I'd be interested to hear your workflow and whether or not you have found a way to usefully integrate LR mobile into your editing/housekeeping process...
But I'm curious about LR Mobile.
Are you using it? If so, how?
Currently, I'm really just using it as a viewer to show other people images I've finished with. As in, sync the holiday photos with LR mobile and then show my parents on the iPad, kind of thing. Not especially exciting really. I'll use it to do basic editing on the odd photo I snap on the iPhone itself but I don't really use the flagging and rating side of it at all.
I'd like to be able to do this:
1) Shoot JPEG + RAW
2) Import JPEG to iPad whilst on location
3) Review JPEGS and select 'keepers' and bin the rubbish, maybe do a tiny bit of PP and post to social media
4) Get home, take in the RAWs off the card
5) Somehow sync my selections/edits already made to the JPEG images to the CR2s as the come in and thus be magically left with a nice neat collection without any need for further reviewing or rating.[/i]
I appreciate I could sort of do this by using the copy develop settings function but it's not really neat and in all honesty, I'd rather just wait, use my laptop and do it all at once.
As it stands, I tend to use the iPad to view/post the JPEGs via the Photos app whilst I'm away from a computer and just leave LR Mobile alone.
I feel like it should be an absolutely superb tool, but I appreciate that Adobe are being massively limited by Apple's iOS Camera Roll restrictions - hope it gets freed up a bit in the future.
Anyway, just posting as I'd be interested to hear your workflow and whether or not you have found a way to usefully integrate LR mobile into your editing/housekeeping process...
Edited by Disastrous on Wednesday 30th September 13:02
I generally decide whether it's RAW or Jpeg before I shoot it, so I dont tend to end up quite how you do.
My thing is if I'm really balancing colour and exposure and I'm certain that I'm fine with it, and it's not a major thing I'm shooting, I'll do jpeg Fine. IF it's really important to extract everything out of an image, I'll shoot RAW. But I never usually bother with both
My thinking for this is
1) jpeg out of camera still always every time needs *something* even if it's just a bit of contrast and exposure
2) If you're going to the trouble of shooting it with intent, then I also want to go to the trouble of editing it. The edit could be a 10 second lasting Lightroom template, or it could be getting the colours, WB, exposure and hue/saturation where I want them in LR, then exporting to PS to do more on with layers
I tried LR mobile, and thought it was s
t if I'm honest, there's better gallery and editing apps that are easier to get on with that are less resource heavy
My thing is if I'm really balancing colour and exposure and I'm certain that I'm fine with it, and it's not a major thing I'm shooting, I'll do jpeg Fine. IF it's really important to extract everything out of an image, I'll shoot RAW. But I never usually bother with both
My thinking for this is
1) jpeg out of camera still always every time needs *something* even if it's just a bit of contrast and exposure
2) If you're going to the trouble of shooting it with intent, then I also want to go to the trouble of editing it. The edit could be a 10 second lasting Lightroom template, or it could be getting the colours, WB, exposure and hue/saturation where I want them in LR, then exporting to PS to do more on with layers
I tried LR mobile, and thought it was s
t if I'm honest, there's better gallery and editing apps that are easier to get on with that are less resource heavy jinkster said:
My MacBook is mobile so I don't need mobile software. The iPad is great but it doesn't beat the MacBook.
Fair enough, and it's pretty much still the only way to make the workflow make sense. Even Adobe themselves see it as being an add-on to a computer based setup.But I hate taking my laptop on holiday and would have my iPad with me anyway for entertainment. It sort of becomes silly to then cart my MacBook and my iPad (plus HD, power supply etc etc) around with me.
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