P: Support for keyword and metadata editing

Thanks for the info. Amazing looking at this thread - it is nearly a year old and Adobe still have done nothing! I moved to Lightroom after iOS8 did not support iPhoto thinking Adobe would be more robust. Maybe still true but pity about the lack of functionality on LR Mobile.

I'd say $20 makes Photosmith a viable alternative, but perhaps its features are more important to me. And PhotosInfoPro isn't an editing app; it doesn't try to be. But that being said, the fact they both could come up with an easy, workable solution does make Adobe's choice to leave out such obvious metadata features even more baffling.

And Photos beta isn't tons better either. You can't even do star ratings with it. Maybe with LR6 we'll get what we want.

Neither one of those is a viable alternative, Photosmith is $19.99 to edit metadata and keywords, while PhotosInfo Pro hasn't been updated since 2013 and you would need to export images to the camera roll to edit them.

Adobe needs to step up and act like a market leader on the mobile platform. Lightroom iOS is just a photo viewer with some editing capabilities that syncs back with Lightroom for Mac/Windows. I can do that with Mac Photos and iOS photos. All they are doing is what others are doing, give me some professional tools.

There are other iPad apps that can work with metadata; PhotosInfoPro or Photosmith for example. The cool thing about PhotosInfoPro is that you can edit metadata for say a RAW and generate an XMP, and then export JUST the XMPs and so when they are copied to the directory with the RAWs (assuming you didn't change file names) voila! there is your metadata.

To me, one of the fundamental reasons for introducing Lightroom Mobile was to enable sharing of photos via the mobile device and to be able to replicate (limited) functionality on the device. HOWEVER, captions that show on the PC are not replicated on the iPad after syncing and on the iPad, there is no way to add captions because there is no access to the metadata. Adobe Chat confirmed this is the case but is there a work around and/or will this be corrected in the near future?

To be a true tool for photographers on the go, it REQUIRES the ability to manage keywords. Import the LR keyword hierarchy, add new ones, change them, etc...

Often I wish I could be working on my photos even when I am away from my desktop/lightroomcatalog. A very useful feature would be a mobile app with a very simple photo viewer with access to my Lightroom catalogs. I could then rate photos, add keywords and other data remotely. This would make my work flow far more efficient, and I could be more productive, even away from my computer.

Can someone here that's far smarter than I am please explain something to me about Lightroom Mobile. I got my copy only a few days ago with my "first" iPad, I know, hard to believe. Anyway, I was tearing through Lr Mobile figuring everything out pretty fast, then got stuck on how in the world you got to the menu that allowed you to put in meta (keywords, name changes, title, description and all that stuff). I banged around for hours going crazy cause I was unable to figure this out. All along it NEVER occurred to me Adobe would be so short sided as to omit something as critical to a mobile platform, as this. There are all these silly development features that require processing power iPads don't have a lot of and something like meta - which I would love to sit on an airplane or the beach, etc., and work on... nothing! It's inexplicable. So my question is what am I missing? Is the something they clearly have the ability to do but are holding on to so it's a "bid deal" three or four versions from now? Any news on this would be appreciated. Thanks for your time.

Ipad version 1 is welcome.

It is an ideal tool for adding metadata to images.

Please provide the ability to maintain at least the following fields.

Title
Caption
Location.
User Comment.

The User Interface for Mac / Windows makes it difficult to edit metadata, due to the small font size, cluttered list of fields and narrow column width. The UI of the iPad would allow the user to easily scale the screen to allow very good text entry features. With current hardware this will deliver real benefit, whereas, we will have to wait for better calibrated iPads to really take advantage of the develop features.

Note. Please do not merge this with Keywords requests. It is amazing that so many Develop features were added, but so few Library features. There should be separate requests for Kewording and Rating.

Don't care about creating keywords on my phone, but being able to use existing keywords to search through thousands of images to find the ones I want would be a definite plus. I can't imagine that this update is too far away.