How to move Files vom Lightroom Mobile on iPad to Lightroom Classic on Mac without Internet?

[Jan5FBF]

Hey everybody,

I just got an iPad and now I am figuring out how to properly use Lightroom Mobile, respectively how to establish a useful workflow. So lets start with my preconditions and my problem. I am just coming from a Photoshoot and have 60GB of RAW Photos on my SD Card. Now i would like to edit them on my iPad and later store them in my Lightroom Catalog on my Mac. I know, that I can import them on my iPad and they automatically appear in my synced up library in Lightroom Classic on my mac - but this workflow requires a solid internet connection AND it takes AGES, especially the upload. So I am trying for hours now but can't find a way, to edit pictures on my iPad, copy them back on a harddrive WITH all the settings and then copy them on my Computer from there. I think there must be a way - I can't believe that professionals who want to use Lightroom Mobile rely on uploading hundreds of gigabytes to the cloud before being able to use the data on a computer or any other system later.

Thanks for your help!

Greetings,

Felix

[JohanElzenga]

The answer is that you can't do this without an internet connection. Lightroom mobile has no option to export original RAW images with edits as XMP files, so your only option would be to export the images as TIFF to the Camera Roll. You can then import these images from the iPad into Lightroom Classic by connecting the iPad to the computer through its cable, but I don't think that is really an option.

[Jim Wilde]

You could also export the raw files as DNG, which would retain the raw data but also would contain the edits and other metadata in the XMP section of the header, which LrClassic will of course read and apply.

You don't even need to export to the Camera Roll if both the iPad and your Mac support Airdrop. So, use the "Export As" option in Lightroom on the iPad, select DNG (or Tiff) as the filetype, then use the Airdrop option to get them to your Mac, then import from there into LrC. 

If you don't even have a local WiFi LAN, you could export to Files on the iPad, then copy from there to an attached hard drive for subsequent import to LrC.

[JohanElzenga]

Good point. I forgot about DNG. That would retain the raw data and still contain the edits. 

[Jan5FBF]

Well, ok that seems to be the best workaround then. I don't see why there is no option to do it with a USB-C cable directly, that would be so easy and perfect for traveling. This way it makes editing on my iPad more or less useless when I am traveling with my bus for example. Or also after a shooting with like 100 GB of data - who wants to upload this amount of data everytime?

But thank you Guys!

[JohanElzenga]

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@Jan5FBF wrote:

Well, ok that seems to be the best workaround then. I don't see why there is no option to do it with a USB-C cable directly, that would be so easy and perfect for traveling.

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I believe I explained that there is. If you connect your iPad with its cable to your Mac, then Lightroom Classic can download images from the Camera Roll. It just can't download from Lightroom Mobile directly via a cable.

[philm94852572]

That would just be the originals though not inclusive of the edits made in LR Mobile, right?

[JohanElzenga]

Correct. Originals from the iOS Camera Roll, nothing to do with Lightroom.

[Rosengaard]

Trying to figure out how to export a bunch of photos from Lightroom on the Ipad to the files on the Ipad so I could the export them on to my extrrnal desk. Advice on that would be much appreciated:)

[JohanElzenga]

Tap on the three dots in the upper right corner. Choose 'Select' and select the images you want to save. Then at the bottom right choose 'Share', then 'Export As' and in the dialog that comes up after the images have been rendered choose to save them to Files.

[Rosengaard]

Thank you! I exported but no Idea where they went..

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