(If you’re on an Android device, you can import directly into Lightroom.) After you’ve captured photos using your camera of choice, connect an SD-card or USB adapter for your model and import the images. With those pieces set up, take the iPad and its empty Lightroom CC app along on your next shoot. It’s an old architectural limitation designed to minimize the amount of data that’s transmitted and stored in the cloud, but one we can take advantage of here.
Unlike the Lightroom CC app on the desktop, which keeps everything in parity bidirectionally, Classic syncs “one-and-a-half-directionally”: anything from the cloud is downloaded and imported at full resolution, but you choose which collections in Classic are uploaded. In the Catalog panel, the All Synced Photographs number should be zero.
If you already have photos stored on Creative Cloud-perhaps previously imported into the iPad-they’ll automatically download into Lightroom Classic. Next, in Classic, click the Identity Plate (typically, your name) at the top left corner and click the Start button next to Sync with Lightroom Mobile. The first step is to make sure you’re signed into Creative Cloud in the Lightroom CC for mobile app and Lightroom Classic. And then she wants to be able to wipe the iPad clean for the next time she ventures out.
My friend wants to start with a blank slate on her iPad, import photos while she’s on her trip, edit and organize them as needed, and then have them appear-with edits intact-in Lightroom Classic when she returns. Now that we have the players out of the way, let’s look at the stage. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. I’m going to use an iPad as the example in this article, but it applies to the Android version, too. Thanks to some clever behind-the-scenes file management, it’s possible to access your entire photo library in the app, regardless of its size. It automatically syncs its content through Creative Cloud. Lightroom CC for mobile (iOS or Android), sometimes referred to by Adobe as “Lightroom Mobile,” is the version for tablets and phones that mirrors most of the features in Lightroom CC for desktop. It has many more features than Lightroom CC, but is much more limited when it comes to syncing with Creative Cloud and devices. Lightroom Classic CC is the desktop-focused (Mac or Windows) version of Lightroom that’s been around for more than a decade. Lightroom CC for the desktop (Mac or Windows) is the newer, cloud-focused version of Lightroom everything you import is automatically synced to Creative Cloud and synced with other computers and devices running Lightroom with the same Adobe ID. Could she use the iPad as a temporary Lightroom studio while traveling, and have her trip photos show up effortlessly in Lightroom Classic?įirst, a quick refresher on the current state of Lightroom to make sure we’re all on the same page.
She uses Lightroom Classic on her Mac and had no interest in syncing her entire Lightroom library the way Lightroom CC for the desktop does. She was about to embark on a photo trip and needed to pack light, so she’d decided to take just an iPad loaded with Adobe Lightroom CC for iOS. An attendee of one of my workshops wrote recently with a query.