P: Lightroom app for tablets (iPad, iOS, Android)

A has been mentioned in this discussion several times in the past year, Photosmith is an app that does a lot of what is being suggested. The app has added functionality since the older comments above, and is probably worth a look. It's only iOS at this time, but they might be working on that other platform...check their website.

I totally agree! Super idea! :)

Personally I feel that the most important aspect of such an app is (some kind) of synchronization to your main catalog (I guess if Adobe re-think this they will be able to allow synchronization among multiple computers as well - both win and mac - making your Lightroom catalog available where you prefer to access/view/edit it).

I agree, that if it was possible the spend the time in an airplane adding metadata to your photos I'll probably finish key-wording all my photos one day 🙂

Yes!
LR for Android Tablets!!!!

Here's my wish list of capabilities:

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• Catalog that can sync with main catalog from full LR on standard machine (Win/Mac)
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• Import images from SD/CF card or even external USB HDD to internal/external HDD
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• Rename images (on import or otherwise)
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• Keyword, rank, color Images
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• Collections - view, add, remove, export
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• Compare Candidates
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• Simple Slideshow for quickly pulling together a slideshow from images w/in the catalog for display on tablet or other device
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• Export collections as images or catalog
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With these capabilities I could maximize my time working on images during any downtime while traveling. It would also enable me to avoid dragging along a full laptop.

In my case, its not as critical to include Develop Module functionality as it is Library and Slideshow Modules.

If those were an easy "grape" to pluck, then I'd add a version of the eBook Module to enable working on that while on the go.

It seems that this would be a big win for Adobe to include LR lite for Android (and iOS as time/testing allows).

In short, I vote a big YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, next question... when will it be on the Cloud?? :o)

Cheers!
- Bonnie

Agree. Carousel (now named Revel) is so far a product that is far from useful, and there is nothing in the basic design that shows any evidence of it becoming useful in the near future.

Carousel is a hammer when I need a screwdriver. When I'm in the field, I need a way to get content from my pro camera (*not* some funky tablet camera) to Lightroom for processing, and then publish over a hotspot or wifi connection. At the moment I have to carry a laptop to do this. I'd rather carry a tablet. Not *in addition to* the laptop, but *instead of* the laptop.

Touch interface has a lot of potential for the manipulation of photos. It takes some new paradigms and perhaps the retirement of old paradigms, but it definitely can be done. What I've seen so far are simple proofs of concept, but they are not actual products in the sense that I'd pay money for them and actually use them in the field.

I'd like to see Adobe show me that they are capable of designing to a new paradigm. Not with toys designed to dress up party photos, but the serious tools they are known for. Carousel is not that tool.

I tried Carousel on the ipad. It's not a serious tool. It's meant to dress up photos you took with your phone. There are already free apps that do this. It's time for Adobe to get serious.

Both Adobe Carousel Mosaic are not what is asked for here (replying to the "official answer". I for one, do not want to sign up for any additional cloud based services, and no cloud based service will be practical for my huge Lightroom library.

What is asked for, and what i personally would want is to be able to connect to Lightroom on the LAN from a tablet and do my keywording, ratings, and other non-develop type catalog maintenance while not on my workstation. It would also be useful in a corporate LAN to show work in progress to coworkers etc.

We can already do it with Photoshop due to the LAN server functionality that supports the several Adobe apps that work with Photoshop. All I would want is to do a similar solution (or set of solutions) for Lightroom.

I am sure this has already been discussed, but anyway, here is my take:
Make an app for iPad/iPhone with the sole purpose of showing (to a client) what is being shot (tethered). Basicly all you have to do, is look at how it has already been done by Capture One (by Phase One). I have just tried out Capture One, with the accompanying iPad app, and it works perfectly well. Only I am not at all interested in using their software, as I am totally into LR.
Worth noting regarding the app: It can allow the client to choose stars and color rating. Zooming (pinch) and pausing (to hold selected photo and not go to the newest). I should also allow for a thumbnail overview (like pressing G in LR).

Thanks!

An App for an ipad or an iphone. Imagine an APP for a smart phone such as "tether it". The purpose of this app is to connect to the smartphone on one end and the other to the DSLR camera, so that once the app is launced, it will detect the Camera and the smartphone app shall now act as the camera's live view /LCD. If an image is captured from the DSLR then the image shall be displayed within the smartphone APP thereby allowing the user to edit then and there itself. The advantage with this is that it allows the user to take the advantage of the LCD on the phone. As the camera LCD is not very clear to reflect the image pixels. I am a novice photographer with iphone 4, nikon d3100. Ofcourse, there can be a IEEE mini USB on one end that connects to the camera and the other end goes to the camera adapter that connects to the ipad for tethering.

Since apple don't love flash run on their device,and they hate it just because it make the device lag,so why not to make something unique for android that have not develop by apple yet?Make a lightroom app(lite version is ok)for android,and make the user easy to adjust the color w/b or the highlight etc on their android tablet,that will be just prefect for the photography to carry less weight laptop,even when they got idea for a brand new production,they could easyly make it complete.Think about it,even just an mobile phone can do that more,isn't that super?(sorry for my bad english!)