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RichardFlack
RichardFlack
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December 17, 2018
Question

Mobile Sync and workflow

  • December 17, 2018
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While I was on vacationI uploaded my images off my cameras to my iphone for temporary sharing with a few friends usind iCloud photos.or LR web album.

I did a little tweaking using either the ios editor or LR.

Im back now and want to get everything into the main desktop photo library.   I did the imports off the cameras but now Im wondering about the changes I made on the iphone or ipad.

Is there an easy way to toggle those changes on and off?  And to accept or reject as the case may be?

Maybe the safest approach would have been to turn sync off, then import off the cameras and start from scratch?

Im realising I dont really understand just how sync works. 

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Califdan2
Califdan2
Inspiring
December 17, 2018

Assuming..... 

1) you imported and made changes on your phone using the LR app

Then....

1) if you are using LR CC (not classic) on your desktop, tablet, through a web browser or on another mobile device and both your phone and those "other" devices are using the same Adobe account, then anything you do on one such platform should become visible on any other platform in short order (whatever time it takes to upload the changes to the cloud and then download the changes to the other device)

2)  If you are using Classic on the desktop, some other pieces have to be in place.  First create an album in LR on your phone (Say "# Phone Captures") and mark it as "Auto Add".  Now new images taken with phone will go there.  If you import image to the phone from your camera make sure they also get put in this album.  Now enable Cloud Sync in your LR Classic system.  You should then create a folder in Classic to catch images originated on any of the other devices and designate that folder as "set as LR CC downloads location".  Assuming all that was set up correctly, photos placed in the album on the phone will show up in the folder in Classic (and be physically stored on your hard drive as well as in the cloud).  At this point in Classic you can drag the photos to whatever folder you desire.  If you want them out of the cloud and off your CC devices, remove the photo from the collection in Classic (it will stay in your physical folder).  If you want those photos to appear in different albums on the CC devices, add the photos to Classic collection(s) that have cloud sync enabled.

If you'd like to read an article I wrote about how to use LR/Classic together with :LR/CC, see this URL:  https://www.danhartfordphoto.com/blog/2018/7/lr009---use-lr/classic-and-lr/cc-together-on-same-images-7/2018

https://www.danhartfordphoto.com/blog/2018/7/lr009---use-lr/classic-and-lr/cc-together-on-same-images-7/2018

3)  If you really don't care about any edits or changes you made on your phone to images imported from your camera, then indeed you can just forget about all this cloud syncing and just import the images from the memory card when you get home.

4)  One other thing.  It should be noted that keywords don't sync between eco systems and Folders in CC don't sync with Collection Sets in Classic (however albums and collections themselves do - just not the hierarchy they are in)

Hope that helps.

Ian Lyons
Community Expert
Ian LyonsCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 17, 2018

Califdan2  wrote

If you'd like to read an article I wrote about how to use LR/Classic together with :LR/CC, see this URL: 

While it possible to use both together Adobe do not recommend that customers do so. See Lightroom CC Common questions

Can I use Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC together?

Syncing between Lightroom Classic CC and Lightroom CC for desktop isn’t recommended.

Califdan2
Califdan2
Inspiring
December 17, 2018

Hi Ian,

Yeah.  They really want everybody to flock to the Cloud based eco system and abandon Classic. However, I think they were surprised at how many serious and professional photographers have so far taken a pass on the CC ecosystem and stayed with Classic as their primary system. 

However, recommended or not, they went to the effort to create the technology, it works fine (with some limitations such as not syncing Keywords and cc-folders/classic-collection-sets), many people are using the feature to sync between the two and Adobe (as well as many others) have published instructions on how to accomplish the sync between the two such as:

How to sync Lightroom Classic CC photos with Lightroom CC

and

Sync Lightroom Classic with Lightroom CC Ecosystem |)

But, nice to know that at least in one place they don't recommend it for some reason (reduce calls to tech support?)

Dan

john beardsworth
Community Expert
john beardsworthCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 17, 2018

Sync should just bring those photos in automatically, with their adjustments. You can then edit them exactly as normal. But the photos may have been brought into a default folder location for sync - this can be changed in Preferences.

If you import from the flash cards, you would normally have had the No Duplicates setting enabled. So LR would just import the photos that weren't brought into the catalogue by sync.

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