P: Bring back option to save camera photos to album

Upvote this request:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/conversations/lightroom-mobile/lightroom-mobile-bring-back-option-to-save-camera-photos-to-album/5f5f45ef4b561a3d4268eff1

Again, Adobe is doing nothing to fix this kind of GUI bug. It's not supposed to be a "feature request" when the design is bad.

Great! Happy New Year to you too.

(I voted for it👌)

Just did that! I thought I did that when I created the post, but must have erred. Fixed now, thanks! And Happy New Year 

Yeah, that is true...

You could change this post to an Idea and make it a feature request if you like. 

I'd vote for it!

Hi Rick,

That doesn’t work for Lightroom’s internal camera, which is what I was hoping for.

Yes, I already use “Auto Add,” but sadly Lightroom’s own camera doesn’t allow this at all. 

You can use your device's camera to do this.

1. Create new album in Lightroom

2. Click the three dot menu to the right of the new album

3. Select "Auto Add from Camera Roll"

4. Click "Enable"

Now each picture you take with your device's camera will be automatically imported into that new album.

I hope that helps.

Some time back, LR Mobile would allow you to shoot directly to an album. This was great, as when I travel, I could create a new album for the trip, and shoot directly into it for immediate organization.

Now, all the photos just go to "All Photos" and of course the special system smart album "Lr Camera Photos." I can manually add them to my travel albums, but it's such a pain I don't even try.

I couldn't find this as a feature request, but I'm sure this has come up before. Any chance of this feature being reinstated?

Maybe because albums are useful for syncing with Classic and keeping raws from smart previews apart. It looks like the want to make it as difficult as possible to sort and maintain a decent organized catalog. Like the search function not searching for album names and the keywords and smart collections not syncing.

They want people to switch to cloudy because 1) they can sell storage and 2) it’s a more captive ecosystem than Classic (everything in the cloud, hierarchy not preserved on local backup, ...)

This smells reaaaally bad, in my opinion!

This is as designed (which does not mean I think it's a good idea). It used to be like you request, but was changed some time ago for some reason unknown to me.

Hi,

There is a problem regarding pictures taken from within an album. Contrary to the import button, just next to the camera button, and which imports the images right in the album, the camera function saves the images only in “Lr Camera photos”.

This makes no sense: that “twin” (import and camera) button should have a twin (similar) behavior.
Also, if that button is accessible from within an album, it seems pretty obvious to me one wants to capture an image IN that very specific album.