

The crux of a Lightroom mobile workflow involves making Collections in Lightroom (which I’ll call Lightroom desktop to differentiate it) and syncing them to the mobile app.

Automatically Import Photos from the Camera Roll It automatically syncs photos between the desktop and iPad (or iPhone) via Creative Cloud and includes many of the desktop version’s editing tools.Īnd, of course, it includes several features that are either hidden or easy to overlook. If you use Photoshop Lightroom on a Mac or Windows PC, incorporating an iPad into your photographic toolset is now easier with Adobe’s Lightroom mobile app. If you need them again on your iPad sync them again (as smart previews this time) from LrC.Adobe Lightroom mobile: Your Lightroom on the Go You can remove (these iPad-imported-originals) from the Cloud thus: once they have downloaded to Classic remove them from the “All Synced photographs” collection. Whatever you import directly to the iPad does count towards your cloud quota though, so be careful. Any edits, flags, stars will sync back to your Lightroom Classic catalog (but not the keywords) These much smaller smart previews will sync to your iPad where you can edit your photos.

LrC will upload smart previews of your photos to the Cloud which don’t count at all towards the 20GB cloud quota. Alternatively put the photos in a collection which you then sync. You do that by dragging (some or all) the photos to the “All synced photographs” collection. Import there all your raw files (they can be stored on the external disk) and sync everything to the Adobe cloud. My suggestion: get the 20 Gb “Photography plan” and install Lightroom Classic on your computer. You can import from your external device to the iPad and the photos will upload to the Cloud. Lr on iPad is tied to either a 20 GB or 1TB (or more) subscription.
