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Daniel Stockfield
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September 4, 2018
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Photographer Workflow Recommendations?

  • September 4, 2018
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I’ve been a professional photographer for 15 years now.  My workflow was:

- Upload wedding photos to iMac

- Delete photos using Photo Mechanic

- Upload folder to a Drobo (external hard drive)

- Import all images to Lightroom and adjust brightness/color/contrast, etc., save Lightroom file to Drobo

- When client ordered a photo, I‘d export photo out of Lightroom into Photoshop, retouch using Wacom Tablet, and then store retouched in Drobo as well.

My iMac crashed.  Apple store highly recommended I switch to iPad Pro since my business has significantly slowed over the years.  They suggested switching to Affinity (instead of Photoshop) and use Lightroom, and do retouching right on iPad rather than Tablet.  But I don’t know how to use the new Lightroom online (don’t know which to pick).  I will be purchasing a local wireless external hard drive for local storage rather than the Cloud.

Anyone clarify which Lightroom to get?  I will only have the iPad for it...no computer.

Anyone have a better workflow?

Thank you!! I’m

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cmgap
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cmgapCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 4, 2018

Are you waiting for the new iPad that will be released this fall? Editing on the iPad almost doesn't feel like work.

Regarding which Lr to get... if you are going to be using an iPad exclusively Lr CC 1T will be ideal. You can choose to keep a copy of the originals on your local external drive in addition to them being on Adobe's cloud server.

99jon
99jon
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September 4, 2018

You can only run the iOS version from the app store, on your iPad.

You mention an external hard drive, so I’m assuming you will have some sort of computer? Any photos imported to the iPad will be added as originals to the cloud (with a subscription) and those originals could be automatically downloaded into Lightroom Classic using the external drive.

Lightroom CC would hold previews only (originals optionally as a preference)

Alternatively forget having a desktop version. LRCC can be used solely on the iPad and you can get all the editing tools currently available as an in app purchase (premium features) at a slightly lower subscription price.

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