The best workflow I’ve found since I own a mac and an iPad and will use both for editing depending of how I’m feeling is to transfer all photo files to my mac first (create the folder, import to Lightroom, and curating the keepers, after that I create a collection with the same name as the folder and this will sync with my adobe cloud account which will allow me to edit photos on my iPad “from the cloud” since the folders will appear on my iPad and I can edit those collection’s smart previews.
This may be confusing however if you just download Lightroom (not lightroom classic) from the Adobe cloud system onto your computer then you download the lightroom mobile app to the iPad then you can access the photos and edit them via the cloud from any location from any device. This means not having to input photos onto the iPad or iPhone. This is my current workflow. Works great.
Hello. Do you need to have a Lightroom subscription? Probably yes I think. Which one do you chose, please? I'm trying to figure out what I currently need (Computer + iPad). Thank you
You can also upload the images to the iPad, and if you have LR Classic synchronized with LR, the photos will be automatically downloaded to your laptop when you open LR Classic. From this folder in Classic you can then move them to your usual folder structure in LR Classic. The great thing is that this workflow works with any mobile device, including your iPhone! The advantage is that you don't have to take your laptop with you on vacation, your pictures are all stored in the Creative Cloud and when you're back home, they're automatically transferred to your hard drive! Unfortunately keywords are not transferred, this is a big bug from Adobe and has to be changed in an urgent update.
The issue with all these external HD's is that the workflow becomes complicated, you have to make back-ups, not having all photos in one place. You can have ALL photos on your iPad, even with just a 32Gb version. 1: Do not store them in your iPad Files. 2: Simply use the Lr app and import everything. It will upload to your Creative Cloud storage and leave just a smaller version on the iPad. 3: When you start working on a photo it will download it again if needed. My experience is that with simple changes, like cropping, it keep it as smaller version. I have 10 years photos stored like this and just 8Gb iPad storage is used. If you wish, you can for each folder even indicate if you want to keep it locally stored (comes handy when you have no WiFi connection). 4: When at home, all photos are on my iMac already there and the ones I changed have the chances already included. No backup needed. I am absolutely sure the CC back-up is safe. However a second local backup on the Mac is still possible. With Apple Photos is works the same actually.
I used my 11 inch iPad Pro with 512 storage on a trip I did to Cuba in January. I took a fast SanDisk USB-C Sd card reader, SanDisk 512 GB SSD, 6- 32Gig Sd cards, a Hyper Drive USB-C PowerHub with PD charging, and a Anker Powercore 26800 battery. I downloaded all the memory cards to daily folders on the iPad and back of the original folder hierarchy from the SD cards on the SSD drive. So when I came back to Chicago, I had 3 copies of everything. The iPad, the SSD drive and the original SD cards they were not erased. I Lightroom mobile was my workflow. I like the workflow with the exception of one thing. I Lightroom wanted to upload everything to the Adobe cloud. I wish there was a way that light room to create XMP files with my corrections. So when I get back to Chicago I’ll have to do is offload them from the iPad with the xmp files and all of my corrections and tags would be there. Even with ethernet it would take forever for 300 gigs of files to upload to Adobe cloud and download into Lightroom on my home computer. I did enjoy the workflow each evening when I got back to the Airbnb from shooting and I looked at everything the next morning while having breakfast in Havana. It was a joy shooting with my Fuji Xpro 3 and X100F. It was definitely great not to travel with my 15 inch MacBook Pro. Does anyone know if there are any iPad apps that can create XMP files for the Raw files? This way offloading from the main iPad storage will be easier with meta-data and keywords. Anker PowerCore+ 26800, Premium Portable Charger, High Capacity 26800mAh External Battery with Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 (in- and Output), Includes PowerPort+ 1 Wall Charger by AnkerDirect Learn more: www.amazon.com/dp/B01K6TA748/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_2wmUEbCVY7VA9 HyperDrive USB-C Hub Adapter for iPad Pro, MacBook Pro/Air, Power 9-in-1 USBC Hub Dongle with 4K HDMI, USB-C PD, Gigabit Ethernet, Audio Jack, 3X USB 3.0, Micro/SD Card Slots (Space Gray) SanDisk Extreme PRO SD UHS-II USB Type-C Card Reader/Writer, Up to 500MB/s Data Transfer Rate
That is the hardest way to do it lol. I use a sd card reader to import to my iPads camera roll. I then go through them in the photos app and delete the rubbish ones. All the keepers you just import to Lightroom then edit and export back to photos. Save the edits to a ssd (and the raws if you want) and then delete all from iPad. I tend to delete the raws and leave the Jpegs in my photos app for storage reasons. Only time I use files Is when editing 4K footage in LumaFusion.
Love your honest assessment of pros and cons in this video. Too many youtubers rave about how much better the iPad is and glaze over or completely ignore the numerous pitfalls
Another Workflow - Lightroom classic on desktop has a rather interesting feature. If you import some images into a collection (from your desktop) then sync that collection to the cloud (can easily be turned on and off from a right click). APPARENTLY - It Syncs SMART PREVIEWS to the cloud that do not count toward your storage capacity. You can access this from any other device that has lightroom, including your iPad and edit to your heart's content and have the edits synced across devices. So that would be, from Desktop in Lightroom classic: Import Images from SD to desired HDD location. Import images from desired HDD location into LR Classic Add images into a collection Sync collection to cloud Edit from desired device Export (images that are 1200px on the shortside (i think)) *(you can always return to your computer and export fullres later) this workflow assumes you have access to a computer and internet, which is not always the case, but an option worth knowing about if you do, and just love to work on your iPad.
Omar, great informative video. I just upgraded my iPad Pro to the new 11”. Fuji fan here and this will really help me to try using the iPad instead of my Windows laptop. I love your channel, keep it going !!
The way I like to go about it is: 1. Import folder to LR on desktop. 2. Build “smart previews”. 3.Create a collection and sync to LR mobile. That way you can edit the previews on the iPad without having to store the images to the iPad.
Awesome vid, just got the iPad Pro and intend on doing both photo/and video, I’ve also considered the Gnarbox. I hope you make more iPad editing workflow tutorials, love that they’re short and sweet, longer vids tend to rush through the details. Thanks again
I just import to my iPad Pro after a shoot. I was importing using the USB-C cable straight to the camera at first because I didn't have a USB-C card reader. It was painfully slow though, would take forever to transfer photos. Now I have a UHS-II SD card and a SanDisk USB-C UHS-II card reader, and it's so much faster. When I get home, the iPad Pro syncs Lightroom via WiFi and Lightroom Classic automatically downloads all photos to my MacBook Pro.
Hi Omar, just to mention that you can also import the photos to Lightroom and then you can share to other apps from there. I usually import to Lightroom and then share to Affinity for further editing. Great video.
I have been trying to import raw files from SD card to Lightroom, but I can't get the "direct import" feature to work... when I choose "Add Photos" in Lightroom, the "From camera device" option is grayed out. The Files app CAN see them, so I can still import them by choosing import from Files and then selecting them in Files, but that is an inconvenient workaround. Does the "From camera device" option work for you?
And how do you do that, because when you import into Lightroom, it masks all these images into a database that I just can't find on a tablet, so I have no access to those images unless I go through Lightroom.
I’m an enthusiast, not a working photographer, so take my comments with that in mind... I have just been using Photos for years with great success. I import all of my X-T3 photos there, and do the majority of any editing in Pixelmator Photo (which allows editing in place). Other apps I use frequently are Best Photos for review/culling and Metapho for updating photo Metadata. All of these apps let me work on the pictures within the Photos app.
Justin, I’m a scarred up vet, so take my comments to an anger management class! Any photo workflow on the ipad REEKS of a decade old workflow of ipad centric workflow: import into album on ipad, then import into album of photo editor, then save to device. It DOES NOT compliment any desktop workflow. You either do it the way Mafia Don iPad says so, or your photos sleeps with the fishes. I have yet to meet the photographer iPad workflow that replaces the ipad. All lightroom in the iPad do is sell ipads. If you work on mac OS, any photo workflow on an Ipad is on an island. A microsoft surface is a better device as you can drag photos and lr catalog from windows to a mac. You cant do that with ipad
Hi Justin, I, like you am very happy using Photos for most editing. ( I have others like Elements, L L Classic ) I have just bought the latest iPad Air and also have a Macbook Air 2015. I use this combination on my travels.To go with my iPad I have bought Pixelmator Photo. I have a problem with the Pixelmator workflow and hope that you would be able to give me a few pointers. I can open the jpeg image in Pixelmator and I can work on it eg use remove tool, but then I can't work out how to get it back to Photos. It seems to want me to open a separate file and keep it in Pixelmator. What I want to be able to do is duplicate the original image, work on it, save the altered image and then return it to Photos so that it sits alongside the original image. That is much the way I do it with my windows desktop and Elements. Thanks. Richard.
I want to do exactly that. Do the photos automatically offload when you’re not using the app? I want the air, but it only has 250 gb max or is it worth getting the 1TB iPad Pro? My biggest frustration is running out of storage but I’m not sure if 250 is enough.
At first I used RavPower’s FileHub; it did it’s job albeit very slowly. So I got very excited when iOS introduced ability to work with external hard drives. But copying from sd to hdd via a usb-c hub was also slow, shaky, and quite nerve wrecking without clear progress bar. I was never sure if all my photos got copied. So I eventually got WD Wireless Passport Pro, and am quite happy with it. Whether remotely or at home, I just pop the sd card in, and let it copy without any additional interaction. Not needing a screen I avoid any distractions that turning pc or tablet on might bring. The good thing about WD drive is that on iPad one doesn’t have to connect through WiFi to access files on it anymore. For iPad Pro, a $5 type-b micro to usb-c cable allows to connect it directly without any dongles. The only negative about WD WPP I have so far is the stupid folder structure it creates when copying SD card. I think it’s about 7 folders deep before one can finally get to copied photos.
Steps at 6:45 never with videos and exfat hard drives. You will destroy the files and only noticing it later in replay. Only use apple friendly harddriveformats. Nice video by the way
This video was very useful. It helped me figure out some new approaches to my workflow. I appreciate that you explain things in a succinct way that is easy to understand and with humor.
Yes!! Been looking forward to this. I’ve sold my MacBook and purchased iPad Pro. Best decision ever. I find LR way easier to use etc particularly as a keen amateur! But just trying to work out the nitty gritty with workflow!! Will def watch this later when little lad has gone to bed! Thanks for this x
im just always bummed that the ipad lightroom doesn't have support for all the presets on the main lightroom desktop software. have not been able to get my camera-matched presets on the ipad version.
I have a MacBook Air right now and I just had a major problem with Lightroom on it and have been doing research on iPad Pro! I’m an amateur too but did this help a lot? I am not one for complex I like simple
Samantha Loose it’s not completely the same. Tiny bit of a learning curve (no bottom labels etc) but now I find it way easier than I did on MacBook. Just zooming in for one!! At the same time, not all my everyday tasks were simpler on iPad such as eg I makes simple publications (very simple) and I’ve found that hard but I’ve got there. You have to ensure you get the right set up for other things. Ie decent keyboard , decent usbc hub, decent case/stand, pencil etc etc etc. Lots of accessories has ultimately made it the same price as a Basic Mac. I’m still overall pleased with my decision but just warning you of some downsides I’ve found along the way.
Goooooooood luck. Unless you EMBRACE the adobe way, with their cloudy cloud sync, LR on an ipad is a novelty, not a workflow. Download netflix instead.
Hey! Great video! I do agree that using an iPad is probably the best way to edit photos on the go right now. I want to share my experience a bit. i don't use Lightroom as it requires subscription, but I use pixelmator photo. With pixelmator photo I can edit my photos without copying the files to my iPad. Once I'm done editing and exporting my photos, I usually click cancel so that pixelmator won't make a .photo format (the edited format). Hope that's useful!😁
Very useful, do you know of a viewer where you could just go through all the images on an memory card without having to transfer, import, upload anything ? I will check out that pixelmator stuff.
I realize this is not a new video but I just came across it today in searching for info to help someone else... Thank you Omar for the info and for the giggles! Will be watching more of your videos! Nice to meet you.
You can also upload your raws into the photos app. Dump them into dropbox and delete the raws. Then download the previews onto your ipad. So that you have all your photos on your home computer and your ipad without having duplicate raw photos in several locations.
Thank you for this great video, now I understand so much better how to go about it, really had no idea how it will work on the IPad but now because of you my man I have a clear idea.
I know this is a year after your video but I still wanted to let you know, I deff learned & enjoyed your video and that you went the right flow to teach the lesson. It drives me crazy when the Techy guys go to fast. The speed was just right to catch the different steps. You were clear and have a bounce in your personality which made your lesson fun.,Thank you!
Quick comment about the WD My Passport Wireless external drives - they format their internal drives (regular and ssd) in NTFS format, so the iPad Pro cannot view the files when connected by usb. For those drives, you have to use them wirelessly, which is significantly slower. I do use them to offload SD cards after shoots, and absolutely love them, but have to use the included WD NTFS driver on my MacBook (macs can read NTFS natively but can’t write to the drives). If you want to use an external HD to backup cards in the field and read/write with an iPad, you should consider the Gnarbox or Lacie DJI Copilot (which is formatted exfat). Also, it’s important to point out that an iPad can do split screen with 2 files windows, so it’s easy to copy files from one location to another.
Informative video hun; et thanks for the recommendations! Also, wondering how many gb do you have et is it sufficient or would you upgrade?!! Thanks, 🥰💕💕💕❤️
been on this workflow for couple weeks now. sold my macbook pro and upgraded my ipad pro to the one with cellular. bought a mac mini so i can still do work with my monitor and stuff. i also found a nice usb c hub from amazon where i can plug in a sandisk ssd, an external HDD and an SD card all at the same time. not missing my macbook pro at all.
I use the iPad Pro as my primary computer, I’m an avid photographer and shoot often, the iPad is lightweight and the battery is great, perfect for me travelling about on my motorbike. If your editing a handful of photos at a time the iPad is a gem even with my a7r2’s 42mp files the iPad doesn’t skip a beat, HOWEVER on the days I have to edit a few hundred photos, or import and edit 100 photos the iPad is a pain in the ass. Happy to answer any questions a I’ve been using the iPad as my dedicated editing computer for 2 years now.
Hi. I have a fuji x2, and and ipad, for teaching, but keen to use for editing. Am keen on using Fuji jpeg presets as a starting point for editing, as generally photos just need tweaking. Any suitable apps for latest ipad? Many thanks.
I officially switch my workflow from Lightroom to Capture One. I held on a little longer with Lightroom because of the iPad app but man I also can't wait for Capture One to release a similar iPad app.
Dennis van Mierlo I hoped this too, but after contacting Caputre One I was told they have no plans to do so atm. I just use Lightroom mobile which is very easy to use on the iPad Pro, especially with the Apple Pencil.
wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! impressive video so informative . will continue to learn. Just brought iPad air 2020 and what to learn all i can . thanks you had me a yada yada
Maybe you should have used the manual focus for the top view on the Ipad to avoid focus hunting. Otherwise great tutorial, I am also editing on my Ipad Pro ! It's super convenient when I am shooting photos in a festival and I have to do "live tweets" which means editing and puting few photos on social medias quickly. For that Ipad is a very powerful tool. Just one remark though : I noticed the Ipad tends to boost colors a bit more than my calibrated desktop monitor. So be careful not to push the saturation too much when editing on the Ipad. But otherwise the screen is still accurate anyway
I just recently bought my iPad Pro and I've been trying to figure out and nail down a workflow like this and your step-by-step was super helpful! Thanks, man!
Very helpful Omar. Problem is that fitting the workflow to use the ipad the way I use a laptop with images intended to have a “forever home” on a desktop is impossible. W/ a laptop: 1)In the field i load images on laptop. Keep card as backup. 2) I organize my photo library on the laptop with a LR catalog per event/location. Say “beach” “family” “kim’s boudior”. Each of those directories have sub directories like “orig” “masters” “Jpg” “print” “online” and then a “LR catalog” 3) I launch each session from their respective catalog, cull, do initial color, maybe finals for online. 4) i get home and move photos from laptop to desktop, fire up the lightroom catalog from that event, relink the orig files if need be, then continue work. How do I get that same workflow on an ipad? Ipad workflow peeps: “Well you have to import from card to ipad files, then ipad to LR, then blah blah blah, then upload like 18 TB of photos to Adobe cloud at $199 a month, then get home and hit shit-command -F-U to sync lightroom, wait 2.8 week to dl the 18 TB of data only to find your rating system not updating. Me: brings ipad for netflix. Call me when the Apple ARM macbooks are out and I can use MY WORKFLOW remotely, not ipad’s. ...you can’t even import a LR ipad catalog into LR mac os they way you can any catalog. You have to sync it. Hey, SYNC THIS! I am way more comfortable with the word “import” than “sync”. Sync orphans files.... someone should get social services on sync! More like STINK!
I will read the pictures from my SD card into the iPad photos app. Once the photos app is finished copying the files, I select the keep files on card (or something like that) so I have the pictures on my iPad photos app and on the SD card. The iPad stays in the hotel, the camera joins me during the day so even on holiday I have file separation. I edit using the photos app (has become a lot better lately). I will use the ❤️ in the photos app to mark those pictures that turned out really well. These are sorted into a second favorites album on the iPad. The iPad is great for reviewing the pictures after a intensive day with the camera. For creative stuff you should check out the autodesk sketchbook app, it’s free and you can do a lot with cutouts and layers and text and hand drawn stuff. I strongly recommend having a look 😁 Love your content!
I really just use the Lightroom with Cloud backup, it’s expensive solution, but so easy: open LR, plugin SD card, import. All the raws will be in the cloud automatically. Later, I can either keep editing on iPad, or jump onto LR classic at home computer to make edits. There are two drawbacks: 1. expensive: $20/month for 1TB storage, 2. LR does not work very well with Fuji XTrans RAW.
Just wanted to share my experience: Yesterday I went out trying out my new X-T4 and shot mostly video, but a few stills. I connected the SDHC card to the iPad Pro 2020 via a Sandisk ultrafast card reader. All looked good, but instead of importing into Photos, I thought I would do like you and use Files app. Bang, ALL my files on the card vanished! I took the card to my iMac and it had no files, BUT it showed 19GB used! DUH! I then went to a Windows PC and got the same. Eventually a tool I had revealed that the iPad files app had renamed the top folder to /.Spotify-V100 and neither Mac, nor PC or Camera or iPad was showing the folder, because it started with a "." i.e. DOT. Once I knew this, I was able to rename the folder and get my files, but just be warned!!!
Ipads are like Vegas: any photowork you start on an iPad, stays on an iPad. Even culling. The best that iPad can offer a photographer is 10 years of ARM development that would result in an ARM macbook running MacOS with a MAC OS lightroom. I love my XT3’s OOC look and use the fuji app to COPY jpgs in, do some DARKROOM or Photo magic, watermark them, then share online with friends. Then at home, I create a lightroom catalog for each event and import the photos from the orig card, do my final work and archive there. There is no ipad workflow except for ios device only peeps who live on Instagram. Ipad os is an island, and a hostile one at that. Completely different os workflow from the mac. I use the ipad as a portfolio of work that I have done in laptops and desktops. Thats it....and netflix.
RemekTek Media does this apply if I’m using an iPad JUST to transfer images to an external hard drive from my sd card? No importing to iPad etc just transferring from the card to an ssd
The gearbox is neat, if you don’t need a boatload of capacity, or if you’re trying to edit a video on it. However if you just need more capacity and a place to dump/backup your photos I’ve found the WD my passport wireless to be extremely useful. Now I’m not making loads of videos but I’m taking a crap ton of raw photos and need the storage space. You mentioned the price of the gnarbox and it IS pricey, if it offered more capacity than an iPad at the same price it might be more palatable.
I do all of my editing on my iPad. It does get less efficient when editing say a wedding or something, but otherwise I love it and would highly recommend. I use an iPad Pro 9.7 that I got used for like $200 and the Apple Pencil. Has not failed me yet.
Kyle Petit how do you get the .raf files to show previews? I have an ipad air and the previews dont show up. Only when I transfer jpgs they show up 🤷♂️
Excellent review and help ! Thank you ! Funny fact: I just realized at the end that “safari pictures” means pictures from an actual safari in Africa or somewhere near. I really understood “safari” as the Safari Browser and I was trying all the time to figure what the hell are “safari pictures” xD....
easily imported from the ios origin photo app, and fuji's the uncompress raw can be read by the ipad, while the compress can not. photoshop can be replace by the affinity photo app which is much cheaper.
This is great. Just really starting to get into sports photography and taking 100s of shots each game. Been shooting RAW on a Canon 70D, but just upgraded to an R6. I was dumping all into Photos and culling through there, but the new R cameras use a different RAW format that as of now isn’t being read by Photos. So, trying to figure out a better work flow. Using LR on an iPad Pro so getting a workflow going is becoming more and more important as memory gets used up!
Interesting fact is that fuji raw compressed can only be opened an handled directly in lightroom. Neither of files, Apple photos(on mac or idevice), affinity photos, darkroom can open these compressed files on an ipad. Ipads and ios has a huge potential, but unfortunately the system is still to odd and bad for file management. Hope this changes for the better with the new apple chipsets and not the other direction....and I agree, editing in lightroom with the apple pen is absolutely awesome.
Nice work Omar, just didn’t mention if it supported Raw image imports.... I’m a bit old fashioned in my workflow (XT3’s and MacBook Pro) and am def looking for a new easier way to travel for out of town jobs... Anyway, got me thinking about investigating this further, so thanks for your efforts. Keep up the great work, G’day from New Zealand (Kirk Vogel)
I looked into this a while back. I got an HD version of the WD device, which I wanted for a holiday so I could back up my photos as I went. That part worked great, gave some peace of mind and ability to reuse my SD card. Gnarbox 2.0 came out after that, and I watched some videos on it. For videographers, it sounds great, with integration with Luma Fusion and extremely fast file transfer, copying just the selected parts of a clip, automatic transcoding, etc. But there’s less info about use for photographers, and it seems apart from checksumming the copy to ensure exact copies, if you aren’t an adventurer doing video, there’s less justification for the price. Anyway, whereas Lightroom Mobile uses it’s own Raw converter, so can read Fuji Compressed Raw files fine, if like me you shoot Fuji Raw but don’t use Lightroom and don’t want a subscription, it isn’t currently viable, because iOS doesn’t yet support Fuji Compressed Raw, and I don’t want to use Uncompressed Raw for storage reasons. And editing Jpg just isn’t viable except for social media if you aren’t too fussed about the loss of highlight and shadow detail. So I’ve given up on that dream, except for editing photos taken on my phone, which can be quite fun. They’re in Heif format, so have much more detail and quality than jpegs to play with. I quite like playing with Fauxkeh.
This makes life so much easier cause I use my iPad for everything since my laptop became old and I haven’t had time to upgrade it. Thanks a bunch for this video 🍊
I love to see how others use their iPad and the various apps. I just shared my own iPad workflow in a video last week. I think I might start using your select process in the files app while they’re still on the SD card. Thanks for insights!
Hello! I’m a beginner in photography and I want to take my hobby more seriously by getting a laptop or iPad at some point to help edit my photos. I only have my iPhone currently that I use to edit them and the only way I move my photos is from my camera to the phone through the Nikon app. I was wondering what would be good to save up for at least for now in my photography journey when it comes to editing photos on a laptop or iPad. Thanks for the help!
Another easy way to do all of this, is to get a subscription of the 1TB version of LRCC and use your PC ou laptop to select and upload the photos to LR. Then, just open LR Mobile on the iPad and voila!
Perfect. I just got an M1 iPad Pro. I have a GNARBOX classic, which I’ve had for probably 10 years or so, and it’s slow, but rock solid. That said, it is very pricy when comparing to the WD Wi-Fi drive, etc. great video. Thank you for the dongle with an SD card reader.
Nikon SnapBridge automatically adds photos to the iPad photos, the only thing i have to do is delete the ones I don’t want. No cables, card reading, clicking, or touching anything. That’s just for JPEG tho.
I 've been editing from the iPad Pro since 2016 for my out of town work and frankly, I have not looked back. Transitioning from a MacBook Pro certainly was not easy, especially in the beginning but not having to haul a bulky MacBook amongst my photo gear was worth it. For me, the magic key to making this work is Adobe CC (yeah, I know, subscription, Adobe Rip Off, yadda, yadda.. I' ve heard it all) but having all of my work on my pad, phone and desktop at home, all synched up ready to go is priceless and worth the $21.00 a month. ON1 is launching ON1 360 sometime this year which will compete with Adobe's CC and I am looking forward to giving it a try. Nowadays, I find myself doing not only my road work on the iPad but even some serious editing at home and rarely firing up the old 27in iMac, save for editing in PS, or for additional detailed work a large screen in needed.
Great insights, thanks! 🙂 I don't like Adobe not because of subscription, but because of the horrible UX (PS on desktop and other apps), apalling performance (LR on dekstop) and mediocre editing tools (LR). Eagerly looking forward to any alternatives 🤞 Capture One is spoiling the niche for other software developers as they released great software for the desktop (C1) and are refusing to comment if they will release anything for the iPad 🤷♂️
Michal Nowak I have played with C1 on my desktop (Mac) and thoroughly impressed. However, without a fully functional mobile version and one that is equal to their desktop offerings, along with synchronization between devices (the primary reason for sticking with CC), I simply can not see making the switch. As mentioned, ON1 is promising to launch their ’360’ next month that looks to be a challenger to Adobe’s CC, we shall see. Honestly, I hope so, I like competition, better for the consumer.
Giving me more temptation to upgrade my 10.5" ipad pro with lightning port to the newer models with USB-C. I have all kinds of issues getting lightning adaptor working to read SD-Cards as it always complains about adapter needing power, which I do and it works half the time. It only seems to work reliably with the slower UHS-I cards, the UHS-II cars seem to need the extra power..prolly the extra pins. Seems to work a bit better with more recent IOS updates but still not ideal. I have done this via bluetooth pretty reliably but much slower. I have really liked using iPad when traveling (....can't wait to do that again) as it cuts down on the bulk of a laptop.
When u try plugging in my 10TB WD MY BOOK directly with a USB C TO USB A adapter my iPad crashes and shuts off very frustrating going to try with a dongle. Can't be a power drain issue as the my book has its own power source
IOS lovely file management system from the late 90"s. My favorite is that duplicate option while copy is in the more tab drives me f@!$%%$^& bonkers. Like apple do you guys make computers or vacuums?
Don’t know if this works differently on the iPad Pro from an external drive vs Creative Cloud, but when you go through CC sync it creates Smart Preview DNG files for remote editing to be brought back to the original catalog where the edits can be applied to the original RAW. Have you been able to import RAW files directly fro the SD card as is, or do you think it generates DNG? The only real drawback for the DNG is that it’s not full resolution (I think..) so pixel peeping won’t be as precise. I think..
Funny I have that exact same SD Card dongle. Great video my workflow includes the Gnarbox connected directly to the iPad. For me that works very well and it's quick. I backup to the Gnarbox 2.0 then can edit on the iPad after I import. With the Adobe CC the files get added to my Adobe Cloud and I can access them via any device.
Fantastic video, very helpful Omar. I have the older iPad Pro 12.9 with the lightning connection and everything works the same. I use a Copilot Boss by DJI to view and save images with the iPad. Is there a FlePow connector with a lightning connection? Please let me know and where can I get one. Cheers Ron
Looking to buy the ipad pro 2020 to replace my old tablet to be able to edit in LR and PS which i justvstarered to learn . Thouhyt may as well learn from ipad. Instaed of laptop. What are you suggestions for Ipad pro 2020 for LR and PS any advice would be welcome
Omar, all your videos are great. Always informative and needed on my end! So thanks. I have a question on this iPad workflow thing ….. If I already have an external hard drive not SSD that I’ve been using to back up my MacBook Pro, can that hard drive now be attached to my iPad Pro and used as described in this workflow video? Or do I have to get another hard drive that is compatible or compliant with an iPad versus MacBook Pro laptop?
After a wedding or any other job, i copy the files to a Lr "Master" catalog in my 2010 MacPro, all this catalog is synced in Lr and then i can cull and do some editing in my iPhone or iPad pro.
I have been using a mobile workflow for some time now, since I'm not a pro that does photography for a living, I only process JPEGs (that from my Fuji XT2 are awesome) mainly in Snapseed and Lighroom Mobile (free version). I don't use Apple products (they are way too expensive), I use an android tablet and the only problem is transferring images from the card to the tablet. In the future I may start processing RAF files on the tablet.
Thanks Omar for the Video. What i'm missing in every Video, i've ever seen about iPad Workflows. If i do a Client Couple Shot, coming home with 300 Fotos and want to import them into my Mobile SSD to sort it on iPad, then later edit them on my Computer, how do i do this. All of my Photos from this year are on a Samsung T7. I work on my Laptops' Lightroom CC Classic and work on my Desktop Computer. But now i want to use my iPad on the go to import the Photos to the SSD. If you import your Photos like in the last Part of the Video, how do you use this Cataloque on your Desktop PC?
I’m curious as to why you used the first black SD card reader device to choose your “favs” to import onto the iPad and then a different piece of equipment to put the photos from the SD card onto the hard drive? They both have an SD card slot, couldn’t you just use the same reader? Do they make devices where I can buy one instead of two pieces of equipment?
The best workflow I’ve found since I own a mac and an iPad and will use both for editing depending of how I’m feeling is to transfer all photo files to my mac first (create the folder, import to Lightroom, and curating the keepers, after that I create a collection with the same name as the folder and this will sync with my adobe cloud account which will allow me to edit photos on my iPad “from the cloud” since the folders will appear on my iPad and I can edit those collection’s smart previews.
A little work around for culling in the files app... open a second window of the files app and just drag the ones you want to a new folder.
Still can’t replicate how I used a laptop to mirror my desktop’s workflow when I’m remote.
This may be confusing however if you just download Lightroom (not lightroom classic) from the Adobe cloud system onto your computer then you download the lightroom mobile app to the iPad then you can access the photos and edit them via the cloud from any location from any device. This means not having to input photos onto the iPad or iPhone.
This is my current workflow. Works great.
Hello. Do you need to have a Lightroom subscription? Probably yes I think. Which one do you chose, please? I'm trying to figure out what I currently need (Computer + iPad). Thank you
You can also upload the images to the iPad, and if you have LR Classic synchronized with LR, the photos will be automatically downloaded to your laptop when you open LR Classic. From this folder in Classic you can then move them to your usual folder structure in LR Classic.
The great thing is that this workflow works with any mobile device, including your iPhone!
The advantage is that you don't have to take your laptop with you on vacation, your pictures are all stored in the Creative Cloud and when you're back home, they're automatically transferred to your hard drive!
Unfortunately keywords are not transferred, this is a big bug from Adobe and has to be changed in an urgent update.
Yep this is how I do it... I work from the adobe cloud in my iPad Pro. I got the 128gb and so I have to still be storage conscious....
nils I have the $14.99/month for photoshop & Lightroom and I get 1 tb of cloud storage. It’s great
and you can never leave adobe or you lose your fotos
The issue with all these external HD's is that the workflow becomes complicated, you have to make back-ups, not having all photos in one place. You can have ALL photos on your iPad, even with just a 32Gb version. 1: Do not store them in your iPad Files. 2: Simply use the Lr app and import everything. It will upload to your Creative Cloud storage and leave just a smaller version on the iPad. 3: When you start working on a photo it will download it again if needed. My experience is that with simple changes, like cropping, it keep it as smaller version. I have 10 years photos stored like this and just 8Gb iPad storage is used. If you wish, you can for each folder even indicate if you want to keep it locally stored (comes handy when you have no WiFi connection). 4: When at home, all photos are on my iMac already there and the ones I changed have the chances already included. No backup needed. I am absolutely sure the CC back-up is safe. However a second local backup on the Mac is still possible. With Apple Photos is works the same actually.
This is actually excellent workflow and behavior. The only problem is that it's only available from Adobe :/
This is so helpful!! In the video I wanted to keep non-Adobe folks in mind. But Great!!!!
I used my 11 inch iPad Pro with 512 storage on a trip I did to Cuba in January. I took a fast SanDisk USB-C Sd card reader, SanDisk 512 GB SSD, 6- 32Gig Sd cards, a Hyper Drive USB-C PowerHub with PD charging, and a Anker Powercore 26800 battery. I downloaded all the memory cards to daily folders on the iPad and back of the original folder hierarchy from the SD cards on the SSD drive. So when I came back to Chicago, I had 3 copies of everything. The iPad, the SSD drive and the original SD cards they were not erased. I Lightroom mobile was my workflow. I like the workflow with the exception of one thing. I Lightroom wanted to upload everything to the Adobe cloud. I wish there was a way that light room to create XMP files with my corrections. So when I get back to Chicago I’ll have to do is offload them from the iPad with the xmp files and all of my corrections and tags would be there. Even with ethernet it would take forever for 300 gigs of files to upload to Adobe cloud and download into Lightroom on my home computer. I did enjoy the workflow each evening when I got back to the Airbnb from shooting and I looked at everything the next morning while having breakfast in Havana. It was a joy shooting with my Fuji Xpro 3 and X100F. It was definitely great not to travel with my 15 inch MacBook Pro. Does anyone know if there are any iPad apps that can create XMP files for the Raw files? This way offloading from the main iPad storage will be easier with meta-data and keywords.
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That is the hardest way to do it lol. I use a sd card reader to import to my iPads camera roll. I then go through them in the photos app and delete the rubbish ones. All the keepers you just import to Lightroom then edit and export back to photos. Save the edits to a ssd (and the raws if you want) and then delete all from iPad. I tend to delete the raws and leave the Jpegs in my photos app for storage reasons. Only time I use files Is when editing 4K footage in LumaFusion.
So crazy, I’ve been searching for some current content on this exact topic and boom, you made one the same day. Awesome. Thank you!!!
Love your honest assessment of pros and cons in this video. Too many youtubers rave about how much better the iPad is and glaze over or completely ignore the numerous pitfalls
Amen...pitfalls you only learn about after investing...that they don't tell you about.
Another Workflow - Lightroom classic on desktop has a rather interesting feature. If you import some images into a collection (from your desktop) then sync that collection to the cloud (can easily be turned on and off from a right click). APPARENTLY - It Syncs SMART PREVIEWS to the cloud that do not count toward your storage capacity. You can access this from any other device that has lightroom, including your iPad and edit to your heart's content and have the edits synced across devices.
So that would be, from Desktop in Lightroom classic:
Import Images from SD to desired HDD location.
Import images from desired HDD location into LR Classic
Add images into a collection
Sync collection to cloud
Edit from desired device
Export (images that are 1200px on the shortside (i think))
*(you can always return to your computer and export fullres later)
this workflow assumes you have access to a computer and internet, which is not always the case, but an option worth knowing about if you do, and just love to work on your iPad.
Omar, great informative video. I just upgraded my iPad Pro to the new 11”. Fuji fan here and this will really help me to try using the iPad instead of my Windows laptop. I love your channel, keep it going !!
How is it going? Do you prefer the iPad over your computer? I'm thinking about buying an iPad Pro for editing myself
The way I like to go about it is:
1. Import folder to LR on desktop.
2. Build “smart previews”.
3.Create a collection and sync to LR mobile.
That way you can edit the previews on the iPad without having to store the images to the iPad.
This is the way.
Awesome vid, just got the iPad Pro and intend on doing both photo/and video, I’ve also considered the Gnarbox. I hope you make more iPad editing workflow tutorials, love that they’re short and sweet, longer vids tend to rush through the details. Thanks again
I just import to my iPad Pro after a shoot. I was importing using the USB-C cable straight to the camera at first because I didn't have a USB-C card reader. It was painfully slow though, would take forever to transfer photos. Now I have a UHS-II SD card and a SanDisk USB-C UHS-II card reader, and it's so much faster. When I get home, the iPad Pro syncs Lightroom via WiFi and Lightroom Classic automatically downloads all photos to my MacBook Pro.
Charmin Baer You might not have the optimum cable. I plan on testing a couple of cables soon.
Hi Omar, just to mention that you can also import the photos to Lightroom and then you can share to other apps from there. I usually import to Lightroom and then share to Affinity for further editing. Great video.
I have been trying to import raw files from SD card to Lightroom, but I can't get the "direct import" feature to work... when I choose "Add Photos" in Lightroom, the "From camera device" option is grayed out. The Files app CAN see them, so I can still import them by choosing import from Files and then selecting them in Files, but that is an inconvenient workaround. Does the "From camera device" option work for you?
@@jlwilliams that's strange, it works fine with mine, I sometimes import that way too. Have you tried different sd cards?
And how do you do that, because when you import into Lightroom, it masks all these images into a database that I just can't find on a tablet, so I have no access to those images unless I go through Lightroom.
I’m an enthusiast, not a working photographer, so take my comments with that in mind...
I have just been using Photos for years with great success. I import all of my X-T3 photos there, and do the majority of any editing in Pixelmator Photo (which allows editing in place). Other apps I use frequently are Best Photos for review/culling and Metapho for updating photo Metadata. All of these apps let me work on the pictures within the Photos app.
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Any photo workflow on the ipad REEKS of a decade old workflow of ipad centric workflow: import into album on ipad, then import into album of photo editor, then save to device. It DOES NOT compliment any desktop workflow. You either do it the way Mafia Don iPad says so, or your photos sleeps with the fishes.
I have yet to meet the photographer iPad workflow that replaces the ipad. All lightroom in the iPad do is sell ipads. If you work on mac OS, any photo workflow on an Ipad is on an island. A microsoft surface is a better device as you can drag photos and lr catalog from windows to a mac. You cant do that with ipad
Hi Justin, I, like you am very happy using Photos for most editing. ( I have others like Elements, L L Classic ) I have just bought the latest iPad Air and also have a Macbook Air 2015. I use this combination on my travels.To go with my iPad I have bought Pixelmator Photo. I have a problem with the Pixelmator workflow and hope that you would be able to give me a few pointers. I can open the jpeg image in Pixelmator and I can work on it eg use remove tool, but then I can't work out how to get it back to Photos. It seems to want me to open a separate file and keep it in Pixelmator. What I want to be able to do is duplicate the original image, work on it, save the altered image and then return it to Photos so that it sits alongside the original image. That is much the way I do it with my windows desktop and Elements. Thanks. Richard.
Your iPad being at 10% battery is stressing me out! Thanks for the content!
Me too
I still use my laptop. Upload the photos to the lightroom cloud. And get them on the iPad later. Editing photos only on the iPad.
I want to do exactly that. Do the photos automatically offload when you’re not using the app? I want the air, but it only has 250 gb max or is it worth getting the 1TB iPad Pro? My biggest frustration is running out of storage but I’m not sure if 250 is enough.
2020 but still great! Thanks... a good starter for me. And loving the s/w agnostic approach too. You got a subscriber.
At first I used RavPower’s FileHub; it did it’s job albeit very slowly. So I got very excited when iOS introduced ability to work with external hard drives. But copying from sd to hdd via a usb-c hub was also slow, shaky, and quite nerve wrecking without clear progress bar. I was never sure if all my photos got copied.
So I eventually got WD Wireless Passport Pro, and am quite happy with it. Whether remotely or at home, I just pop the sd card in, and let it copy without any additional interaction. Not needing a screen I avoid any distractions that turning pc or tablet on might bring. The good thing about WD drive is that on iPad one doesn’t have to connect through WiFi to access files on it anymore. For iPad Pro, a $5 type-b micro to usb-c cable allows to connect it directly without any dongles.
The only negative about WD WPP I have so far is the stupid folder structure it creates when copying SD card. I think it’s about 7 folders deep before one can finally get to copied photos.
Maciek Sikora super helpful! Forgot to mention the progress bar. Only a progress wheel shown. True.
Steps at 6:45 never with videos and exfat hard drives. You will destroy the files and only noticing it later in replay. Only use apple friendly harddriveformats. Nice video by the way
This video was very useful. It helped me figure out some new approaches to my workflow. I appreciate that you explain things in a succinct way that is easy to understand and with humor.
Thanks Omar. You answered a couple of questions that I had. I also saw a good tip below too. Thanks for leading this community!!
Yes!! Been looking forward to this. I’ve sold my MacBook and purchased iPad Pro. Best decision ever. I find LR way easier to use etc particularly as a keen amateur! But just trying to work out the nitty gritty with workflow!! Will def watch this later when little lad has gone to bed! Thanks for this x
im just always bummed that the ipad lightroom doesn't have support for all the presets on the main lightroom desktop software. have not been able to get my camera-matched presets on the ipad version.
I have them?? I think there’s ways to import them if not ?? Couldn’t live without my acros
I have a MacBook Air right now and I just had a major problem with Lightroom on it and have been doing research on iPad Pro! I’m an amateur too but did this help a lot? I am not one for complex I like simple
Samantha Loose it’s not completely the same. Tiny bit of a learning curve (no bottom labels etc) but now I find it way easier than I did on MacBook. Just zooming in for one!!
At the same time, not all my everyday tasks were simpler on iPad such as eg I makes simple publications (very simple) and I’ve found that hard but I’ve got there. You have to ensure you get the right set up for other things. Ie decent keyboard , decent usbc hub, decent case/stand, pencil etc etc etc. Lots of accessories has ultimately made it the same price as a Basic Mac.
I’m still overall pleased with my decision but just warning you of some downsides I’ve found along the way.
Actually just got an iPad for this reason a few weeks ago. Definitely still trying to figure out how to be efficient and organized!
Goooooooood luck.
Unless you EMBRACE the adobe way, with their cloudy cloud sync, LR on an ipad is a novelty, not a workflow.
Download netflix instead.
Snap..
Did not know about the “quick view” feature while selecting photos. This will make culling a lot easier. Thanks, Omar!
Hey! Great video! I do agree that using an iPad is probably the best way to edit photos on the go right now. I want to share my experience a bit. i don't use Lightroom as it requires subscription, but I use pixelmator photo. With pixelmator photo I can edit my photos without copying the files to my iPad. Once I'm done editing and exporting my photos, I usually click cancel so that pixelmator won't make a .photo format (the edited format). Hope that's useful!😁
Very useful, do you know of a viewer where you could just go through all the images on an memory card without having to transfer, import, upload anything ? I will check out that pixelmator stuff.
Thank you. Just starting to learn so much. All is new to me but not for long. Looking forward to learning more with your videos. Stay safe and well
I realize this is not a new video but I just came across it today in searching for info to help someone else... Thank you Omar for the info and for the giggles! Will be watching more of your videos! Nice to meet you.
Thx, very useful info about how to import to the I Pad and backup to an external drive.
You can also upload your raws into the photos app. Dump them into dropbox and delete the raws. Then download the previews onto your ipad. So that you have all your photos on your home computer and your ipad without having duplicate raw photos in several locations.
Great video!! This answered several questions I had about editing on the iPad Pro. Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you for this great video, now I understand so much better how to go about it, really had no idea how it will work on the IPad but now because of you my man I have a clear idea.
I know this is a year after your video but I still wanted to let you know, I deff learned & enjoyed your video and that you went the right flow to teach the lesson. It drives me crazy when the Techy guys go to fast. The speed was just right to catch the different steps. You were clear and have a bounce in your personality which made your lesson fun.,Thank you!
Dood. You literally explained what I didn’t even know that I needed to know...if that makes sense. *THANK YOU*
Quick comment about the WD My Passport Wireless external drives - they format their internal drives (regular and ssd) in NTFS format, so the iPad Pro cannot view the files when connected by usb. For those drives, you have to use them wirelessly, which is significantly slower. I do use them to offload SD cards after shoots, and absolutely love them, but have to use the included WD NTFS driver on my MacBook (macs can read NTFS natively but can’t write to the drives). If you want to use an external HD to backup cards in the field and read/write with an iPad, you should consider the Gnarbox or Lacie DJI Copilot (which is formatted exfat).
Also, it’s important to point out that an iPad can do split screen with 2 files windows, so it’s easy to copy files from one location to another.
Informative video hun; et thanks for the recommendations! Also, wondering how many gb do you have et is it sufficient or would you upgrade?!! Thanks, 🥰💕💕💕❤️
Learned some good tips great beginner video
Would love to see an updated version of this workflow for 2024. Has anything changed or been streamlined with the latest hardware/software?
I am also debating laptop vs ipad purchase to be used for photo editing. I love the idea doing it on ipad.
Great video! Cheers for the insights. Would love to hear the rest of that outro though..😀🙌🔥
been on this workflow for couple weeks now. sold my macbook pro and upgraded my ipad pro to the one with cellular. bought a mac mini so i can still do work with my monitor and stuff. i also found a nice usb c hub from amazon where i can plug in a sandisk ssd, an external HDD and an SD card all at the same time. not missing my macbook pro at all.
I use the iPad Pro as my primary computer, I’m an avid photographer and shoot often, the iPad is lightweight and the battery is great, perfect for me travelling about on my motorbike. If your editing a handful of photos at a time the iPad is a gem even with my a7r2’s 42mp files the iPad doesn’t skip a beat, HOWEVER on the days I have to edit a few hundred photos, or import and edit 100 photos the iPad is a pain in the ass. Happy to answer any questions a I’ve been using the iPad as my dedicated editing computer for 2 years now.
Hi. I have a fuji x2, and and ipad, for teaching, but keen to use for editing. Am keen on using Fuji jpeg presets as a starting point for editing, as generally photos just need tweaking. Any suitable apps for latest ipad? Many thanks.
I hope Capture One will make an iPad app. Until then, I’m using my computer. Lot’s of greetings, Dennis 🇳🇱
Cheers
I would be cool with a tablet/touch friendly UI and then the Surface would be awesome for this.
I officially switch my workflow from Lightroom to Capture One. I held on a little longer with Lightroom because of the iPad app but man I also can't wait for Capture One to release a similar iPad app.
Dennis van Mierlo I hoped this too, but after contacting Caputre One I was told they have no plans to do so atm. I just use Lightroom mobile which is very easy to use on the iPad Pro, especially with the Apple Pencil.
Dennis van Mierlo same here!! Capture one 20 is quite a revelation!!
Very helpful, now let's see you edit some pics on the ipad, please.
wow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! impressive video so informative . will continue to learn. Just brought iPad air 2020 and what to learn all i can . thanks you had me a yada yada
Maybe you should have used the manual focus for the top view on the Ipad to avoid focus hunting. Otherwise great tutorial, I am also editing on my Ipad Pro !
It's super convenient when I am shooting photos in a festival and I have to do "live tweets" which means editing and puting few photos on social medias quickly. For that Ipad is a very powerful tool.
Just one remark though : I noticed the Ipad tends to boost colors a bit more than my calibrated desktop monitor. So be careful not to push the saturation too much when editing on the Ipad. But otherwise the screen is still accurate anyway
That was a fantastic explanation on how not to flood your iPad with photos and on how to download onto an external hard drive.
I just recently bought my iPad Pro and I've been trying to figure out and nail down a workflow like this and your step-by-step was super helpful! Thanks, man!
Very helpful Omar.
Problem is that fitting the workflow to use the ipad the way I use a laptop with images intended to have a “forever home” on a desktop is impossible.
W/ a laptop:
1)In the field i load images on laptop. Keep card as backup.
2) I organize my photo library on the laptop with a LR catalog per event/location. Say “beach” “family” “kim’s boudior”.
Each of those directories have sub directories like “orig” “masters”
“Jpg” “print” “online” and then a “LR catalog”
3) I launch each session from their respective catalog, cull, do initial color, maybe finals for online.
4) i get home and move photos from laptop to desktop, fire up the lightroom catalog from that event, relink the orig files if need be, then continue work.
How do I get that same workflow on an ipad?
Ipad workflow peeps: “Well you have to import from card to ipad files, then ipad to LR, then blah blah blah, then upload like 18 TB of photos to Adobe cloud at $199 a month, then get home and hit shit-command -F-U to sync lightroom, wait 2.8 week to dl the 18 TB of data only to find your rating system not updating.
Me: brings ipad for netflix. Call me when the Apple ARM macbooks are out and I can use MY WORKFLOW remotely, not ipad’s.
...you can’t even import a LR ipad catalog into LR mac os they way you can any catalog. You have to sync it. Hey, SYNC THIS! I am way more comfortable with the word “import” than “sync”. Sync orphans files.... someone should get social services on sync! More like STINK!
Thank you for the video. I've been looking for a tablet workflow and the solution you selected is perfect. Liked and subscribed!
Hi Omar, I think you’ve got the best voice to be a cartoon character voice over.
I will read the pictures from my SD card into the iPad photos app. Once the photos app is finished copying the files, I select the keep files on card (or something like that) so I have the pictures on my iPad photos app and on the SD card. The iPad stays in the hotel, the camera joins me during the day so even on holiday I have file separation. I edit using the photos app (has become a lot better lately). I will use the ❤️ in the photos app to mark those pictures that turned out really well. These are sorted into a second favorites album on the iPad. The iPad is great for reviewing the pictures after a intensive day with the camera. For creative stuff you should check out the autodesk sketchbook app, it’s free and you can do a lot with cutouts and layers and text and hand drawn stuff. I strongly recommend having a look 😁 Love your content!
Great video Omar! Maybe use manual focus on the cam that's recording your iPad next time:) the focus hunting was a bit distracting
Joep Wilmink I agree!! Thanks
I really just use the Lightroom with Cloud backup, it’s expensive solution, but so easy: open LR, plugin SD card, import. All the raws will be in the cloud automatically. Later, I can either keep editing on iPad, or jump onto LR classic at home computer to make edits. There are two drawbacks: 1. expensive: $20/month for 1TB storage, 2. LR does not work very well with Fuji XTrans RAW.
I love your video! However, is there any sort of workflow for exporting the photos after editing and getting rid of them of the iPad?
Just wanted to share my experience: Yesterday I went out trying out my new X-T4 and shot mostly video, but a few stills. I connected the SDHC card to the iPad Pro 2020 via a Sandisk ultrafast card reader. All looked good, but instead of importing into Photos, I thought I would do like you and use Files app. Bang, ALL my files on the card vanished! I took the card to my iMac and it had no files, BUT it showed 19GB used! DUH! I then went to a Windows PC and got the same. Eventually a tool I had revealed that the iPad files app had renamed the top folder to /.Spotify-V100 and neither Mac, nor PC or Camera or iPad was showing the folder, because it started with a "." i.e. DOT. Once I knew this, I was able to rename the folder and get my files, but just be warned!!!
hey could you please please share the programyou used=? would mean a lot
Ipads are like Vegas: any photowork you start on an iPad, stays on an iPad. Even culling.
The best that iPad can offer a photographer is 10 years of ARM development that would result in an ARM macbook running MacOS with a MAC OS lightroom.
I love my XT3’s OOC look and use the fuji app to COPY jpgs in, do some DARKROOM or Photo magic, watermark them, then share online with friends.
Then at home, I create a lightroom catalog for each event and import the photos from the orig card, do my final work and archive there.
There is no ipad workflow except for ios device only peeps who live on Instagram.
Ipad os is an island, and a hostile one at that. Completely different os workflow from the mac.
I use the ipad as a portfolio of work that I have done in laptops and desktops. Thats it....and netflix.
RemekTek Media does this apply if I’m using an iPad JUST to transfer images to an external hard drive from my sd card? No importing to iPad etc just transferring from the card to an ssd
Great video! Always fascinating to see other workflows.
The gearbox is neat, if you don’t need a boatload of capacity, or if you’re trying to edit a video on it. However if you just need more capacity and a place to dump/backup your photos I’ve found the WD my passport wireless to be extremely useful. Now I’m not making loads of videos but I’m taking a crap ton of raw photos and need the storage space. You mentioned the price of the gnarbox and it IS pricey, if it offered more capacity than an iPad at the same price it might be more palatable.
I do all of my editing on my iPad. It does get less efficient when editing say a wedding or something, but otherwise I love it and would highly recommend. I use an iPad Pro 9.7 that I got used for like $200 and the Apple Pencil. Has not failed me yet.
Kyle Petit how do you get the .raf files to show previews? I have an ipad air and the previews dont show up. Only when I transfer jpgs they show up 🤷♂️
what is the workflow like editing a wedding ?
Excellent review and help ! Thank you ! Funny fact: I just realized at the end that “safari pictures” means pictures from an actual safari in Africa or somewhere near. I really understood “safari” as the Safari Browser and I was trying all the time to figure what the hell are “safari pictures” xD....
Martin Rumfeld OMG. Haha. So sorry. Didn’t even think. Funny.
Me too lmao
Great video! Very in-depth.
Do you know if there is a way to see star ratings that i have set in-camera and just import those?
Amazing vid. Loved the workflow and I’m actually planning on doing the same. Never tried it beside using my laptop actually.
easily imported from the ios origin photo app, and fuji's the uncompress raw can be read by the ipad, while the compress can not. photoshop can be replace by the affinity photo app which is much cheaper.
This is great. Just really starting to get into sports photography and taking 100s of shots each game. Been shooting RAW on a Canon 70D, but just upgraded to an R6. I was dumping all into Photos and culling through there, but the new R cameras use a different RAW format that as of now isn’t being read by Photos. So, trying to figure out a better work flow. Using LR on an iPad Pro so getting a workflow going is becoming more and more important as memory gets used up!
Is there any video of this room tour!! If yes, share link please.
Interesting fact is that fuji raw compressed can only be opened an handled directly in lightroom. Neither of files, Apple photos(on mac or idevice), affinity photos, darkroom can open these compressed files on an ipad. Ipads and ios has a huge potential, but unfortunately the system is still to odd and bad for file management. Hope this changes for the better with the new apple chipsets and not the other direction....and I agree, editing in lightroom with the apple pen is absolutely awesome.
woah. This will help me alot in future cause ai was thinking of editing my workflow with the 2020 ipad pro. ✌🏼✌🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Nice work Omar, just didn’t mention if it supported Raw image imports.... I’m a bit old fashioned in my workflow (XT3’s and MacBook Pro) and am def looking for a new easier way to travel for out of town jobs... Anyway, got me thinking about investigating this further, so thanks for your efforts. Keep up the great work, G’day from New Zealand (Kirk Vogel)
Hi Omar, I finally got an iPad and came back to this video of yours. Do you use a screen protector for your iPad? If so, which one do you use? Thanks!
WOW..lots to think about..thanks for another great video!!!
I looked into this a while back. I got an HD version of the WD device, which I wanted for a holiday so I could back up my photos as I went. That part worked great, gave some peace of mind and ability to reuse my SD card. Gnarbox 2.0 came out after that, and I watched some videos on it. For videographers, it sounds great, with integration with Luma Fusion and extremely fast file transfer, copying just the selected parts of a clip, automatic transcoding, etc. But there’s less info about use for photographers, and it seems apart from checksumming the copy to ensure exact copies, if you aren’t an adventurer doing video, there’s less justification for the price.
Anyway, whereas Lightroom Mobile uses it’s own Raw converter, so can read Fuji Compressed Raw files fine, if like me you shoot Fuji Raw but don’t use Lightroom and don’t want a subscription, it isn’t currently viable, because iOS doesn’t yet support Fuji Compressed Raw, and I don’t want to use Uncompressed Raw for storage reasons. And editing Jpg just isn’t viable except for social media if you aren’t too fussed about the loss of highlight and shadow detail. So I’ve given up on that dream, except for editing photos taken on my phone, which can be quite fun. They’re in Heif format, so have much more detail and quality than jpegs to play with. I quite like playing with Fauxkeh.
Your videos are always fun and great to watch. Thank you. Would love to see your editing skill on lightroom one day!
This makes life so much easier cause I use my iPad for everything since my laptop became old and I haven’t had time to upgrade it. Thanks a bunch for this video 🍊
Another excellent video - I had no idea how you used an I Pad for editing, very useful for me, thanks so much Omar !
Hi Omar, I'm trying to import my fuji XT-4 raw files into my my iPad pro 12.9 2020 and why it only shows blank images. No thumbnails.
Because ipadOs 14.01 haven’t support X-T4 and X-pro3 raw file yet. You must use Lightroom raw processor to edit them.
I love to see how others use their iPad and the various apps. I just shared my own iPad workflow in a video last week. I think I might start using your select process in the files app while they’re still on the SD card. Thanks for insights!
Aaron Ross Cool. I like how you integrate DROPBOX into the workflow.
In android, you can directly plug the camera (micro usb to type - c) and there will be a prompt to import the images from camera. I use an X-T20
Informative and fun to watch. Thanks!!!!!!
Hello! I’m a beginner in photography and I want to take my hobby more seriously by getting a laptop or iPad at some point to help edit my photos. I only have my iPhone currently that I use to edit them and the only way I move my photos is from my camera to the phone through the Nikon app. I was wondering what would be good to save up for at least for now in my photography journey when it comes to editing photos on a laptop or iPad. Thanks for the help!
that sounds so like me. what did you end up choosing?
Another easy way to do all of this, is to get a subscription of the 1TB version of LRCC and use your PC ou laptop to select and upload the photos to LR.
Then, just open LR Mobile on the iPad and voila!
Hi. Thanks for this video. Is there a way to work with DropBox ?
Super helpful! I’m gonna guess this guy is from New York or New Jersey. Love his sense of humor. Subscribed right away.
Perfect. I just got an M1 iPad Pro. I have a GNARBOX classic, which I’ve had for probably 10 years or so, and it’s slow, but rock solid. That said, it is very pricy when comparing to the WD Wi-Fi drive, etc. great video. Thank you for the dongle with an SD card reader.
Nikon SnapBridge automatically adds photos to the iPad photos, the only thing i have to do is delete the ones I don’t want. No cables, card reading, clicking, or touching anything. That’s just for JPEG tho.
I 've been editing from the iPad Pro since 2016 for my out of town work and frankly, I have not looked back. Transitioning from a MacBook Pro certainly was not easy, especially in the beginning but not having to haul a bulky MacBook amongst my photo gear was worth it. For me, the magic key to making this work is Adobe CC (yeah, I know, subscription, Adobe Rip Off, yadda, yadda.. I' ve heard it all) but having all of my work on my pad, phone and desktop at home, all synched up ready to go is priceless and worth the $21.00 a month. ON1 is launching ON1 360 sometime this year which will compete with Adobe's CC and I am looking forward to giving it a try. Nowadays, I find myself doing not only my road work on the iPad but even some serious editing at home and rarely firing up the old 27in iMac, save for editing in PS, or for additional detailed work a large screen in needed.
Great insights, thanks! 🙂 I don't like Adobe not because of subscription, but because of the horrible UX (PS on desktop and other apps), apalling performance (LR on dekstop) and mediocre editing tools (LR). Eagerly looking forward to any alternatives 🤞 Capture One is spoiling the niche for other software developers as they released great software for the desktop (C1) and are refusing to comment if they will release anything for the iPad 🤷♂️
Michal Nowak I have played with C1 on my desktop (Mac) and thoroughly impressed. However, without a fully functional mobile version and one that is equal to their desktop offerings, along with synchronization between devices (the primary reason for sticking with CC), I simply can not see making the switch. As mentioned, ON1 is promising to launch their ’360’ next month that looks to be a challenger to Adobe’s CC, we shall see. Honestly, I hope so, I like competition, better for the consumer.
All my cables are usb c now anyways because I used a macbook pro. So I dont even need dongles anymore for when I’m switching to iPad
Giving me more temptation to upgrade my 10.5" ipad pro with lightning port to the newer models with USB-C. I have all kinds of issues getting lightning adaptor working to read SD-Cards as it always complains about adapter needing power, which I do and it works half the time. It only seems to work reliably with the slower UHS-I cards, the UHS-II cars seem to need the extra power..prolly the extra pins. Seems to work a bit better with more recent IOS updates but still not ideal. I have done this via bluetooth pretty reliably but much slower. I have really liked using iPad when traveling (....can't wait to do that again) as it cuts down on the bulk of a laptop.
When u try plugging in my 10TB WD MY BOOK directly with a USB C TO USB A adapter my iPad crashes and shuts off very frustrating going to try with a dongle. Can't be a power drain issue as the my book has its own power source
IOS lovely file management system from the late 90"s. My favorite is that duplicate option while copy is in the more tab drives me f@!$%%$^& bonkers. Like apple do you guys make computers or vacuums?
Don’t know if this works differently on the iPad Pro from an external drive vs Creative Cloud, but when you go through CC sync it creates Smart Preview DNG files for remote editing to be brought back to the original catalog where the edits can be applied to the original RAW. Have you been able to import RAW files directly fro the SD card as is, or do you think it generates DNG? The only real drawback for the DNG is that it’s not full resolution (I think..) so pixel peeping won’t be as precise. I think..
Funny I have that exact same SD Card dongle. Great video my workflow includes the Gnarbox connected directly to the iPad. For me that works very well and it's quick. I backup to the Gnarbox 2.0 then can edit on the iPad after I import. With the Adobe CC the files get added to my Adobe Cloud and I can access them via any device.
Cool! Good followup: Cloud-Adobe, iCloud and Google Photos. Thanks for chiming in!
@@ogonzilla Happy to chime! Cheers.
Can you edit raw files from lightroom that are stored on the Gnarbox?
Hey anyone know what size this iPad was? the 11"? debating going 11 vs 12.9 0 feel like the 12.9 might be too big for relaxed couch editing.
Brian Smith 11”
You crack me up every time 😂😂 , keep em comin 🤘🤘
Fantastic video, very helpful Omar. I have the older iPad Pro 12.9 with the lightning connection and everything works the same.
I use a Copilot Boss by DJI to view and save images with the iPad. Is there a FlePow connector with a lightning connection?
Please let me know and where can I get one. Cheers Ron
Excellent walkthrough and tips, as usual!
Thanks Omar!!👍🏻
Looking to buy the ipad pro 2020 to replace my old tablet to be able to edit in LR and PS which i justvstarered to learn . Thouhyt may as well learn from ipad. Instaed of laptop. What are you suggestions for Ipad pro 2020 for LR and PS any advice would be welcome
Hey Omar, great video! What case did you get for your iPad Pro?
Omar, all your videos are great. Always informative and needed on my end! So thanks. I have a question on this iPad workflow thing ….. If I already have an external hard drive not SSD that I’ve been using to back up my MacBook Pro, can that hard drive now be attached to my iPad Pro and used as described in this workflow video? Or do I have to get another hard drive that is compatible or compliant with an iPad versus MacBook Pro laptop?
After a wedding or any other job, i copy the files to a Lr "Master" catalog in my 2010 MacPro, all this catalog is synced in Lr and then i can cull and do some editing in my iPhone or iPad pro.
Omar- very well done- taught me about possibilities with the iPad
I have been using a mobile workflow for some time now, since I'm not a pro that does photography for a living, I only process JPEGs (that from my Fuji XT2 are awesome) mainly in Snapseed and Lighroom Mobile (free version). I don't use Apple products (they are way too expensive), I use an android tablet and the only problem is transferring images from the card to the tablet. In the future I may start processing RAF files on the tablet.
Thanks Omar for the Video. What i'm missing in every Video, i've ever seen about iPad Workflows. If i do a Client Couple Shot, coming home with 300 Fotos and want to import them into my Mobile SSD to sort it on iPad, then later edit them on my Computer, how do i do this. All of my Photos from this year are on a Samsung T7. I work on my Laptops' Lightroom CC Classic and work on my Desktop Computer. But now i want to use my iPad on the go to import the Photos to the SSD. If you import your Photos like in the last Part of the Video, how do you use this Cataloque on your Desktop PC?
I’m curious as to why you used the first black SD card reader device to choose your “favs” to import onto the iPad and then a different piece of equipment to put the photos from the SD card onto the hard drive? They both have an SD card slot, couldn’t you just use the same reader? Do they make devices where I can buy one instead of two pieces of equipment?