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eschurr
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January 28, 2025
Question

Photo management suggestions when shooting only on phone and using LRM

  • January 28, 2025
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I'm looking for suggestions on how you manage your photos and workflow when shooting with a phone.

 

After years and years of shooting with a high end DSLR, I now only shoot on my galaxy S24 Ultra. The optics aren't as good as my DSLR, but the software/camera is darn good and the convenience isn't even comparable, especially when traveling. 

 

My workflow is simple:

  • Shoot with Galaxy camera (I don't use the LRM camera because it doesn't take full advantage of the phone's hardware) 
  • Import into LRM. Edit there or on Lrc. 
  • Share photos from LRM for texting, etc. 

It's simple and works except when I want to share in a phone app that doesn't have LRM integration. For example, my grandfather has a Skylight device that I can send photos to and he can see in his  home. LRM doesn't integrate with it. It only looks at the jpegs on the phones Gallery app. So I have to export photos from LRM to the gallery app on my phone, and now I have duplicates on my phone when looking at photos with the phone's gallery app.

 

I keep the original photos on my phone outside of LRM but I'm not sure why. They don't have my LRM edits 

 

I'm thinking of doing this and I want your thoughts:

 

After importing to LRM and editing, delete the original photos and export from LRM to the phone Gallery app. Then if I use an app that requires me to upload photos from my photos gallery app on phone, I will have my LRM edits.

 

Thoughts?

 

 

 

2 replies

selondon
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selondonCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 5, 2025

@eschurr 

 

Just a tip (that you may know), that you can delete photos in Samsung's Galley from the Device Tab in Lightroom Mobile by a long press., just make sure they are imported into LrM first.

 

Your question about why the Gallery won't show LrM edits is because Lightroom Mobile doesn't work like Classic. Photos have be imported into LrM to be edited, whilst in Classic the photos remain on the HD.

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eschurrAuthor
Known Participant
February 5, 2025

Thanks. The real gist of my point was that I was wondering if you all agree that the workflow I'm preparing makes sense because it's often clunky to have photos only in LrM because it doesn't integrate with everything. Exporting the photos works, but it creates duplicates with the original photos in the device, and then it's easy to inadvertently import them, creating duplicates in LrM. If there was a way to tell LrM a specific location to export photos on the device that could work because they'd be separated from the originals but I can't find a way to do that. 

 

One issue I've noticed is that when I import the photos to LrM it loses the location info that the Samsung gallery phone app displays. And when I export the photos that location info is also gone. That's too bad.

 

Is there a better workflow someone can suggest?

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 28, 2025

Have you looked at the built-in camera app in Lightroom? If you use that, then your original photos come into Lightroom without making this detour via your phone gallery, so you do not have to import them in Lightroom and you do not get duplicates if you don't delete the copies in the gallery after importing.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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eschurrAuthor
Known Participant
February 4, 2025

yes, I've looked at the LRM camera app not to my knowledge it doesn't take full advantage of the various lenses on the phone

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