Import to LR Mobile directly from SD card on iPad

Is this same feature coming to Premiere Rush by chance?

With PhotoFast's (expensive) Cardreader and PhotoFast's Camera Roll+ app you can browse Sd cards, select pictures and share them with (= import to) LRmobile.

Why FotoFast can bypass APPLES cameraroll and ADOBE not ?

-Oryk

I may have a solution (ios)but requires some restrictions:

1. if you have storage on Creative Cloud and “add from camera roll” switch turned on in LR Mobile and all the photos you want imported into LR Mobile and Creative Cloud,+- an external drive), sync turned on in Creative Cloud. LR CC desktop needs to have “store an original of all photos locally“ checked.

2. Turn off iCloud pictures by unchecking  “photos“ in settings  of iCloud Drive, and it will give you the option to delete the pics in photos (and scares you with download all now and 30 days to retrieve your photos from iCloud)on your phone, which I did.

3. Make a new album (not shared album)in photos which I labelled “Camera Import-delete p import to LR complete”

4. Attach lighting adapter with camera, SD or CF card attached ( I got the multiple lightning adapter at Amazon which has SD, CF, Mini SD and USB 3.0 for $34)and import photos to the new camera import album in photos.

5. photos will auto add to LR Mobile (creative cloud and LR Cc desktop eventually)from the camera roll(which had been empty)

6. When 5 is complete, open photos, go to “Camera Import-delete...” album and hit select and delete all(May be able delete “recent import”) It does take up twice the memory on your phone temporarily but frees it up relatively quickly.

7. Use only the LR Camera to take pics from the phone unless you want iPhone pics in LR also. Leave iCloud for photos off, or turn off iCloud altogether if you don’t want to use. Can leave photos app on phone empty (after deletion following import to LR) Or not since you know which album has the photos you want to delete. I wanted to get rid of my iCloud storage fee. I use the Adobe Photography plan w 1TB. I still use Lr Classic for a few things

This works for me but I have a lot of storage capacity on my IPhone, so I can import several 64GB CF cards on the go(camping hiking etc with the option to work on them), then  I go back and delete the pics from the photos import album to free up storage on the phone for more imports. My photos are ready on my MacBook Pro when I get back to my computer if WiFi is available there. I have a Canon 5D MK IV with 30 mb stills. Hope this helps and is not a duplication. Apple does not make this easy.

After two years I can’t believe Adobe hasn’t figured this out. I was excited to take my iPad Pro to Europe and use lightroom cc to edit photos on the iPad, importing photos using a cf card reader. But lightroom requires you to first put them on the iPad, then import them to the cloud. Talk about clumsy and redundant!

What at started out as a revolutionary way to manage and process photos is turning into a real cluster. Sorry Lightroo, you lose this round.

Has anyone tried the File Browser app? It’s a paid app but is awesome from a file access standpoint. https://www.stratospherix.com/products/filebrowser/ Just thought I’d see. I’ll try it if not and let everyone know if it works.

Yep, it‘s SO unfortunate that Apple allows only Apple to access a plugged-in SD card reader (is there another one than the one from Apple anyway?)!

Currently, developers of iOS apps have no chance: as soon as the Lightning SD card adapter is plugged into an iOS device the one and only app that launches (and thus has access to the SD card) is Apple‘s very own Photos app.

Adobe‘s in-app teaser suggests otherwise:

„... directly to your phone ...“ – that‘s cleverly put! Look at the photo: the adapter is connected and the screen shows Lightroom CC. What does this suggest to you?

Do we know what iOS‘s Photos app does with the imported photos? To meta data or even image data?

Plus: in Photos app‘s import dialog we can‘t see which of the photos are RAW and which are JPG/TIFF/...!

If I only want to import the RAW images from the SD card into Lightroom CC on my iPad Pro it‘s a guess work (because I shoot RAW+JPG on my Sony Alpha 7II).

It would be a little help if Apple would propagate a connected SD card to iOS‘s Files app so that we don‘t have to put photos first into the Photos app, then import them from there into the Lightroom CC app and then remove them from the Photos app again. However, at least in the current iOS release 11.3.1 a connected SD card (reader) doesn‘t appear in the Files app. Huge bummer! I sincerely hope that this will come in a future iOS version!

So, folks, that‘s the status quo we all (even Adobe!) have to deal with.

Puzzles me, however, that not even a company as huge and important as Adobe can talk to Apple about this and get something from them!

Hi Robert,

Please refer How to transfer photos from a camera or card reader to Photoshop Lightroom

I hope that helps!

Regards,

Sheena