LR users, what do you use Apple Photos for?

[Greg Edwards]

I've been a lightroom user for around 3 years now. It holds pretty much everything, organised into a neat chronological folder structure that syncs with the mobile variants on my iPhone and iPad.

Last week I decided to purge Apple photos of everything that's in LR and just use it as a camera roll, and to hold originals of 'portrait mode' images that will lose their magic if I transfer them lightroom.

Admittedly, I didn't take this step lightly. I have a fondness for Apple Photos and I quite like some of the features, such as memories, integration with apple devices, sharing, siri powered searching, and its implementation of maps, faces etc.

My questions to other Apple toting Lightroom converts, is what do you use Apple Photos for? Do you use it as a camera roll like me, or do you export favourites and/or albums to Photos for personal use and sharing? Or anything else for that matter?

There's a very good chance I'm over thinking it. Maybe I just feel guilty having an app I like going unused now I've transitioned to something that does most of the same functions.

 

[robgendreau]

I've been a lightroom user for around 3 years now. It holds pretty much everything, organised into a neat chronological folder structure that syncs with the mobile variants on my iPhone and iPad.

Last week I decided to purge Apple photos of everything that's in LR and just use it as a camera roll, and to hold originals of 'portrait mode' images that will lose their magic if I transfer them lightroom.

Admittedly, I didn't take this step lightly. I have a fondness for Apple Photos and I quite like some of the features, such as memories, integration with apple devices, sharing, siri powered searching, and its implementation of maps, faces etc.

My questions to other Apple toting Lightroom converts, is what do you use Apple Photos for? Do you use it as a camera roll like me, or do you export favourites and/or albums to Photos for personal use and sharing? Or anything else for that matter?

There's a very good chance I'm over thinking it. Maybe I just feel guilty having an app I like going unused now I've transitioned to something that does most of the same functions.

I use Apple Photos for a few things.

First, a lot of miscellaneous day-to-day stuff like pictures of menus, or a doodad I need to match at Home Depot, or a spot I want to show a friend, a copy of a document, all that kind of thing.

Second, the occasional real photo. I like Apple's pro-raw, and use it sometimes. Mostly I use the Lr camera though.

Third, I use it to share some images. I export from Lr Classic, and then use a shared album in Photos in iCloud based on importing from that group of images. Note that's different than using iCloud as primary storage; I don't do that.

But all my more serious stuff is in Classic. Even the images I DO edit in Photos (well, actually any editing I do is really in Raw Power now, so stuff gets exported from that).

 

[KCK14]

My wife and I share an iCloud account. Photos collects both our phones. Wife sticks in grandkid pictures she clips from Facebook from the other grandmother. I import into Photos stuff I shoot that I think my wife might care about. That might be trips, holidays etc.

Also any picture that I think I might want to show someone else as I will have my phone or iPad with me.

Also I will import from Photos to LR pictures that I think could us a real editing or grand kid pictures so that they are then part of my multi-drive and cloud (different than iCloud) back up scheme.