Adobe has given the public a new sneak peek at a future update for Lightroom on iOS that will simplify the process of importing images into the app. As demonstrated in the above video, Adobe will enable users to directly import images from card readers into Lightroom on iOS, after which point the content is uploaded to the cloud and added to the app's photo library.
The 'seamless importing experience' will arrive in a future Lightroom update starting with iOS 13.2, according to Adobe's Tom Hogarty. The company doesn't provide an exact release date for this update, but says that it will arrive 'soon.'
I don't want my images to go to adobe cloud. I would just like to be able to reference the files on an external drive the way the desktop works. This enables me not to use up precious storage on the iPad and also unnecessarily tie up my machine uploading files. Please, please Adobe listen to this - this is how 90% of pro photographers work when on a laptop in the field. The iPad could be a great way of enabling this workflow.
Until you can add custom image-based watermarks, LR Mobile is of little use for me other than offloading images from my SD cards to my iPhone and using my iPhone for image backup when I'm out on a shoot. Because I still need to use my MacBook Pro running LR Classic to be able to export images with my watermark so that I can share my images on Facebook so they don't get stolen. I know you can add text watermarks but they are not your own and quite frankly look a bit crap. Ironically, I still have to use my iPhone as a mobile hotspot.
Also, as a landscape photographer, many of my images are created from HDR and panorama tools that are still only available on Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic.
While it may seem redundant to some, I'm really hoping Wacom develops a tablet for PS/LR-Ipad. The tablet is a far more physical experience then a desktop, and the number of clicks to get the same work done is probably 4x, leading to early fatigue.
Not exactly - it doesn't work with lightroom mobile. I want a pen tablet/surface for iPad. It's too slow just to use the iPad itself with all the physical activity you have to do just to use it. You can't do the same kind of volume in the same amount of time as a desktop.
You can already import them directly in iPad OS 13.2, by importing the files directly from the card into Lightroom. But this import process is more automatic, and I assume some of the missing import options from the desktop version may also be present.
Can someone tell Adobe that I really, really need them to add lossless DNG compression on import? Especially because my files have to go through Creative Cloud on their way to my desktop, being able to compress my huge Q2 DNGs on the iPad would be extremely useful.
1. Go to the Lightroom album into which you want to import. Then look for the little blue rectangle with rounded ends at the lower right corner. It has two icons: A picture of a camera and a picture of a picture with a plus sign in a circle. Tap the picture of the picture. 2. A menu will appear with three choices: "From Camera Roll", "From All Photos", and "From Files". Tap "From Files." You will get a file browser window. 3. Tap on the blue folder icon at the bottom labeled, "Browse". Make sure you are at the top level of the file browser. Look for your memory card under "Locations", and tap on it. 4. Now tap on the folder containing the images, typically "DCIM" or some variant of that 5. Once you find the images, you can Select or Select All to choose which images you want to import 6. Now tap "Open" to begin the import.
The process doesn't show any progress; in other words, you don't see the images appearing at all until the entire import is complete. Be patient. My card reader blinks, so I know it's doing something, but YMMV.
As I said above, the new Import process in Lightroom will be much, much, easier than this. But at least this process doesn't require a detour through your Camera Roll to get your photos into Lightroom.
Okay cool. Must be 13.2 that allowed it then. I haven’t been able to see my SDcardreader in Files when opening it from Lightroom. Will have to give it another try
It's rediculous. And the main reason why I will never join the Apple family. I'm a sound engineer and need/want to use my media the way I want to use it, not what a software company thinks is best for me.
Getting files from a customer on an external drive, give a quick listen, copy what needed where needed is such a basic function ... move it on my phone or even play it from the usb stick without copying. Put the stick in my mixer and play it directly from there.
@Kashim - your irrational hate has blinded you to the fact that Apple hasn't done anything here. This Adobe doing something everyone else could already do because Apple already let them and others weren't lazy and slow.
Surely this is what the Files app provides in iPadOS 13? OK, the Files app does from within the OS and what we saw here does it within Lightroom, but the Files app workflow no longer requires images to be imported into Photos and then moved from there to LR.
I’ve been using this new functionality right from the first public beta of iPadOS 13....
Are you sure you are doing a one step import into Lightroom? I don’t think so (I cannot anyways). I can copy the images into files instead of Photo’s, and then import them from there (a two step procedure). I cannot open the Lightning Cardreader directly for import in Lightroom.
That’s right. Open the files app; select the images you want from the SD card (for example); select ‘Share’; select Lightroom as the target, and the Files app pulls them off the card and stores them - ? Then when you’ve finished you get a message saying “Lightroom will import X images when it is next opened”. So open Lightroom, and that import happens automatically. (And you can have removed the SD card in the meantime.)
The procedure descibed above - while seemingly one step - is in fact temporarily storing the images in the Files app. So it is a two step import and will take additional time, performance and a little space.
Actually, no, the files are not stored in the files app. They are copied directly from the memory card into Lightroom. The files app doesn't store files; it's just a UI to access files stored in the native file system or some form of network or removable storage, including the memory card.
The key here is that you are not copying the files into the filesystem, then into Lightroom. You are copying them directly from the memory card into Lightroom, using the Files interface.
@tripler6 - it isn't hard at all but it doesn't lock you into Adobe's overpriced cloud storage. Adobe only does things for Adobe. If you think they are doing something for you, you need to look harder for their real motive.
I am an Adobe user but the mobile workflow is useless unless you use their cloud storage solution. I use LR Classic on my laptop but would like to be able to travel with just an iPad and USB-C drive connected to my iPad. LR on iOS does nothing to allow this workflow. I don't even need the ability to edit on the road but would like to be able to rate and mark for deletion while keeping photos on my USB-C drive (which stores the originals of my entire LR library).
I've been thinking about replacing my iPad Air with a Microsoft Surface Go 8GB just so I can do this exact task. Sometimes it's not practical to carry the ThinkPad. Does anyone know if the Surface Go has the grunt for this task?
I wonder if the Files app can move the folder where the Lightroom mobile images are stored. Does LR mobile create XMP sidecar files? That would allow Lightroom Classic to read ratings and edits bypassing the cloud. I just got an iPad and I thought I could be more productive with it. For sure I am more efficient with my old MacBook Air 11, which I wish Apple would reintroduce.
You just have to find the cash to buy the 1tb 12.9" iPad Pro, then your workflow will work, and it will be very fast. But you just won't be able to add a custom watermark on the iPad if you want to export and share your images directly from the device without having to use your laptop.
yeah, you're screwed if you don't pay for their cloud (intentional I'm sure ;)). I finally gave in because I actually now prefer in some ways using an iPad Pro for travel editing. Uploading RAWs from my camera's SD card to the iPad Pro and then the Adobe cloud is now a nightly chore on the road (*when* I have good internet access that is ;)).
I just want to know what Adobe's desktop endgame is, because back at home, where the mixed use of Lightroom Classic and Lightroom (cloud) is still a freakin' mess of duplicated image files and lack of keyword sync. :(
I am not against the subscription model but I am against being forced into their cloud model to be able to use my iPad on the go. Syncing from my iPad to the cloud would become an issues as many places I travel have poor or nonexistent internet and I would need the ability for files to be referenced on a small SSD that I can connect to my iPad. I am trying to stick with Adobe but they are making it harder and harder to do so.
Nah, we haven't put up with any issues. The thing is Apple took over the entire consumer market, now with hardcore PC users looking for a viable platform, Apple is trying to cater to these specific needs. I have never found the platform limited.
@themountainphotographer If your photography only involves a few photos at a time I can understand. But for anyone handling a larger amount of photos anything that makes workflow streamlined to help maintain headspace, is great
@3pgrey, generally a maximum of a couple of hundred RAW files at a time. I know it isn't a solution that works for everyone, but it works for me. I now have gone fully mobile and only use an iPad Pro.
@themountainphotographer How's that working for you? I couldn't stand the idea of not being able to fix my main station when it needs something new. Even laptops only last so long before they fill up with dust. Its not an ideal setup and I like the idea of not being tied to a place, but for me it's better just to take a break and use a laptop on the road
Are you sure?. To me it’s an import images into files, and from then on into lightroom , a two step and two stores procedure. The new procedure is directly - with no temporary storage - import
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