Comprendre l’ecosysteme lightroom

[philippe_4625]

J'utilise Lightroom Classic depuis des années pour trier, classer et retoucher mes photos.Je viens d'acheter un iPad et souhaite l'utiliser pour visualiser mes photos quand je suis en voyage et en faire un premier tri chaque soir pour ensuite récupérer les photos triées sur Classic à mon retour. 
j'ai lu un peu de tout mais j'ai du mal à comprendre comment fonctionne le cloud, la synchronisation  et je crains de faire une grosse boulette...

Est-ce que vous auriez connaissance d'un tuto expliquant tou cela?

merci d.avance

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[Noel Orridge · Accepted solution]

Hi @philippe_4625! Thank you for reaching out, and welcome to the community! It is entirely normal to feel a bit anxious when mixing Lightroom Classic with the cloud. Though the two systems speak different languages, once you understand the bridge between them, it becomes a great workflow. 

Before we go ahead and outline a workflow for you, it's essential to understand that Lightroom Classic does not automatically upload your high-resolution RAW files to the cloud. Instead, it uploads "Smart Previews." These are smaller versions of your photos and do not count against your Adobe Cloud storage quota.

You can use LrC as your master Library while uploading only Smart Previews to the cloud, and the Lightroom Cloud on your iPad becomes a sync layer that allows selected information to flow between devices. When you edit or flag a photo on your iPad, your Lightroom Classic sees that data and applies it to your original RAW file.

Here's a workflow you can try: 

-Enable Sync: In Lightroom Classic, click the Cloud Icon (top right) or your name (top left) and select Start Syncing.

-Create a Sync Collection: In the Collections panel, create a new collection.

-Right-click the collection and select "Sync with Lightroom." A small lightning bolt icon will appear next to it.

-Drag and Drop: Drag any photos you want to view on your iPad into that collection. They will automatically appear on your iPad. 

On Lr on your iPad, you can:

-View photos offline (Smart Previews download locally)

-Flag photos as Pick / Reject

-Add star ratings

-Add keywords

-Make basic edits

-Create albums (they come back as collections)

Here are a few things you have to be wary of:

-Photos imported directly to the iPad are uploaded as full-resolution RAW files. These do count against your cloud storage. Classic will download them to a location you specify in your preferences.

-Stick to Flags: Use the Pick (P) and Reject (X) flags on your iPad to do your sorting. This is the safest way to "cull" your photos.

-Deleting vs. Removing: If you "Remove from Collection" on the iPad, the photo stays safe in your Classic library. If you "Delete" an image from the "All Photos" view on the iPad, it will move it to the trash everywhere. When in doubt, you can use the Reject (X) flag and perform the actual deletion once you return to your desktop.

Hope this helps!

[Noztalgia]

IPad can only use Lightroom Mobile, which is a limited version of the full version Lightroom Classic which has all the functions.

That means you can't really make exceptions of what to sync to the web when using lightroom Mobile.

You can import all your images into your iPad local storage and use Apple Photos just to view your images.

If you import your images to Lightroom Mobile on the iPad, it will want to sync/upload all your images to the web/adobe cloud.

Lightroom mobile by default wants to sync all imported files to the web adobe cloud, it is program to push for that.

You can ( Pause ) all sync on Lighroom Mobile temporarily if you are not connected to WIFI.

While cloud upload is on pause, your images can be imported into Lightroom Mobile, they will be put on queue waiting to be uploaded/sync.

While sync is on Pause, you can go through all your images, rate them, delete some, and export back to your iPad local drive the keepers. After you export everything that you want to keep back into your iPad storage, then you can delete everything, the whole import from Lightroom Mobile if you don't want your files to upload to the web adobe cloud when the iPad goes back online.

I dont trust Adobe, if you have a memory card with images that you don't want Adobe or Apple to see, do not import them into any Apple mobile device and do not import any images into Lighroom even if sync is off.

Keep a Windows PC with you to open the memory card and go through all the images in the card, delete what you want, move your files around to a different folder without having to upload your files to any database or any cloud server.

It is a shame that we pay so much money to use a software that just wants to spy on us and own our files.