P: Drag & Drop in Lightroom on Touch-Interfaces/iPad/Tablets
- July 9, 2024
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I am a Germany based editorial photographer and I want to work with the Lightroom-Cloud and my iPad more and more since it's just a convenient way of working especially while traveling - even though the features and possibilities are still quite limited.
My feature request: being able to drag&drop images out of lightroom on iPad into another app in split-view with preset export settings for that case.
So maybe this is a very neiche problem, but - for my work I like to compose pictures to combine their visual elements and enhance the story telling as well as the visual appeal. For that I use to create exposés in apps like Keynote or other Layout-Applications. So on my Mac I used to export the files I want to put in the exposé onto my Finder and then import them into the application. Then on my iPad I could use the same files from the iCloud and drag&drop them with the apple pencil or my finger right into the layout-frame in e.g. Keynote. Thats very handy and a lot of fun since thats how touch surfaces make the most sense I guess - by moving things intuitively.
But I still have to export the files and sort them into the right folders every time I want to use a certain picture in my exposé. Thats quite a big effort and takes like 30 seconds all together per picture i would. That makes the worflow very clunky. Now I found out, that on my iPad in Lightroom I can actually export a picture and then just copy it to my clipboard and then insert it in Keynote - that's great! That makes things so much easier. But! It could be even better. When using multi-tasking on iPad, most apps allow dragging and dropping files from one app to another - Lightroom doesn't. It doesnt even allow drag and drop within Lightroom.
Allowing drag and drop of lightroom pictures across apps and setting a standard export seeting for this case, e.g. jpg/30%/mid-quality, would make a workflow with lightroom on iPad soo much nicer and more fluent. Right now it takes me 6 klicks/touches per image. And actually implementing that drag&drop possibility with export settings for mac as well would also be a nice idea since as of now when I drag and drop something out of Lightroom Classic it just gives me an unedited version of the image.
