Workflow for editing iPhone photos in LR?

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December 25, 2018
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My primary camera is a Fujifilm X-T2, but lately, I am finding myself shooting more often with my iPhone Xs. Right now I am using iCloud Photo Library so the photos I take with the iPhone Xs are automatically uploaded to iCloud and accessible via Photos.

I use LR to edit my X-T2 files and would like to create a workflow where I import "selects" taken with the iPhone Xs so that everything is in one place—and because LR is a much more robust image editor than Photos.app. But I am unsure of the best way to do this. Any suggestions?

Note that I am taking pictures with the built-in iPhone camera app. I use LR Classic CC as my editor and don't want to switch to Lightroom CC.

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Jao vdL

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and don't want to switch to Lightroom CC.

Oh and in case you were wondering. You don't have to switch to Lightroom CC. You would only use the mobile version of it on your phone to sync to Classic on your computer.

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Jao vdL

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Even more fantastic, if you install Lightroom CC on your phone, you can use it to shoot in raw using your phone and you'll get those raw files to show up in Classic automatically. It is quite astonishing how good those raw files are. This cuts out the iCloud middlemen entirely.

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Badly Drawn BoyAuthor

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Great to have that option, I need to try it more often. I do use Portrait mode quite often on the iPhone, which isn't available within the LR CC Mobile app though.

Thanks Jao vdL and JohanEl54. This is helpful.

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

You can shoot with a depth map inside the lightroom app (which is what

portrait mode does). This depth map becomes a mask that you can use in the

selective edits in Lightroom Classic and as a mask in Photoshop

On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 4:35 PM Badly Drawn Boy <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

JohanElzenga

Community Expert

Install Lightroom CC (Lightroom Mobile) on the iPhone. Then import those selects from the Camera Roll into Lightroom CC. You don’t have to fully switch to Lightroom CC for this. Just enable sync in Lightroom Classic and the iPhone selects will be downloaded to Lightroom Classic. You can even edit the photos on the iPhone already, because the edits will sync too.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

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