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

I thik Adam has got a point: I would really love a Lightroom app for tablets.

I agree, rather than having all the functionality and all the photos on the tablet I would prefer something like a server and client system. The tablet connects via wifi with my computer where Lightroom is installed and acts as a streaming server.

The big advantage would be the much more powerful computer deals with the raw files and processing as well as the much bigger storage. Plus I don't have to copy all files to the tablet.

In my opinion not all funktionalty is needed. I would mainly use it to sit on the couch revise my pictures, present them, make simple tweeks such as contrast, white balance etc or even tagging the pictures.

Carousel / Revel doesn't seem to do anything for existing LR catalogs at all. It's just a cloud-photo-management system. Are there plans to add LR catalog importing, or is that just a pipe dream?

I would love to have an iPad app for viewing photos in my Lightroom catalog over the network. It would be great if it also supported rating/flagging/categorizing, and editing, but even just the ability to view the photos remotely would be a huge benefit.

Carousel is coming to Android...

Very good start. But those of us who's sessions comprise dozens of photos in a remote location, who need to quickly make global changes and publish, there's still no substitute for Lightroom. I always open Lightroom first, and for those few photos that need healing or the stamper or panorama, I'll choose the lightroom option to open in photoshop. Lightroom is still the starting point and is all I need for the majority of my photos.

And we're headed that direction. See Adobe Carousel, and the new Adobe Touch applications including Photoshop Touch.

Realistically, I don't see that Adobe has any choice. If they don't port pro tools to tablets, someone else will provide a tool, and if it's reasonable, those of us attracted to tablets for their portability and versatility will migrate. Adobe has a chance to get in on the ground floor, but the window of opportunity is closing.

I completely disagree. The best computer is the one you have with you. I'm more likely to have the tablet with me when I'm traveling than my laptop. I've imported and generated previews, fixed some exposure issues and published on my *phone* when I needed to and my laptop was not available. What I'm asking is to be able to use the same tools on my portable platform of choice, and let me worry about how fast or slow it is.

"Not so much. The 7-year-old PC I just retired is capable of 10 times the processing performance of the original iPad, and over 3 times the performance of the iPad 2. The computer I replaced it with is capable of over 15 times the performance of my old machine."

Let's be careful of making false arguments. It's not how much faster the fastest machine is, it's a matter of whether useful work can be done with them. The PC I run Lightroom on was purchased just before the turn of the century. The laptop on which I run Lightroom when I'm traveling is from 2003 and has about the same resources as an ipad 2. Yet I do useful work in Lightroom on it.

Hyperbole. XP, Vista, Win7 are the same code base. Same as all the MacOS's. Symbian and Blackberry are not interesting.

What is being asked for is tablet support. Windows 7 tablets suck (from personal experience). The only tablet contenders are iOS and Android. Both iOS and Android are based on Unix derivatives, as is OSX, so it's likely that the ports can share code.

What is being asked for is not unreasonable. If they do a good, usable Android port, they have my personal permission to drop Windows.