Import, workflow, catalog, Need Help

[Noztalgia]

I go through seasons with photography and editing, I left for a while, now I come back to a rush to force me to upload all my photos to the cloud before I can even do anything to the images, how do we get away from that? Am old school, I prefer to keep my images locally, edit locally.

I got me the new iPad 128gig and installed Lightroom to edit photos, then create a theme movie from all the images to share it with family and friends, nothing fancy, simple edits, create a movie from images.

I went on a motorcycle trip to the vintage motorcycle museum in barber, AL, and I took about 200 images inside the museum using the Canon EOS camera, saving images to a regular SD card.

First issue, how do I transfer all the images to the ipad, I do not have the SD adapter.

Came back home to use my PC machine which does have the SD card reader.

I was hoping the new windows 10 photos app will let me mark all my favorite photos so that I can upload those photos alone, No can't do. Unless you log into the windows photo app with your credentials to upload all the images, it won't let you mark your favorite images.

Forget the windows photo app.

I used my browser to log into iclouds photos, I purchased the 50Gig for $.99 / month, created an Album and uploaded to the Apple cloud.

So, now in order to be able to use lightroom on the iPad, I will have to download all 200 images, from the cloud to the iPad local harddrive, and then upload again all those images to the Adobe cloud so that lightroom can work with the images, now I have repeat of all 200 images at two different cloud brand, and also taking up space inside my iPad.

So, let the editing begin... Now I can flip through all the images from within Lightroom, but after fixing every image, I have to export each image back to the iPad, Now I have duplicates inside the iPad, plus it is tideous work to have to export every image that I touch.

Now I have Apple photos app, automatically uploading every exported image, so now I will have another set of duplicates up on the Apple cloud.

All this takes way too long and it is way too complex, every company wants a copy of your images in their cloud, in order for you to get anything done.

Here is my wish, plug in my loaded SD card into my PC, have a good photoviewer that will allow me imediatelly to delete images that are throw aways, and rate the rest of the images that I do want to work with.

Once I have norrowed and selected the good images, what would be the best way to make those selected images available to Lightroom to edit. 

What would be the best way to grab all the edited images and make a video of it ?

It would be nice to do the editing and creating the movie using the iPad instead of the PC.

Please help.

[Rob_Cullen]

To "get away" from uploading all photos to the Cloud- you should be using Lr-CLASSIC.

I suggest- (works for me)

1) Run lightroom-CLASSIC v10.0  on the Home computer.

(NOT Lightroom-Desktop v4.0!)  You may have to change your plan if you do not have Lr-Classic in the Creative Cloud Desktop App.

2) Import photos from camera SD card to Home computer Catalog library in Lr-CLASSIC.

(Use the Catalog Library to sort and cull photos to keep or delete!! it has some very useful tools!!)

3) Install the ADOBE Lightroom  Mobile App on the iPad.  (NOT the Apple Photos App!!!)

4) Turn on 'Sync' in the Home Lr-Classic

Now you can-

a) Make Collections in Lr-Classic that will sync photos 'up' to the Cloud and be visible in the iPad Lightroom-mobile to edit.

b) Take photos with the iPad Lightroom camera which will sync 'down' to your Lr-Classic catalog at home.

DO NOT use any other 'Apps'. Not Apple Photos or Apple iCloud, Not Windows Photos, for your Image management.

If you want to "make movies" with other Apps, 'Export' photos from Lightroom for this special purpose. (Can be done in Lr-Classic without 'Exporting' photos!)

[Noztalgia]

So here is the next issue, I do not use these apps enough to justify a monthly subscription of these app, this is daylight robbery, unbelievable.

I think in order to have all that sync-ability features you got to go all in and start paying monthly subscription for someone who doesn’t edit all that often.

I think the best solution for someone like me is to sell the EOS camera, buy the latest iPhone with plenty of memory, just shoot the iPhone, automatically upload everything to iCloud, do all my edits on the iPad, and create the photo collage movies using iMovie.

Adobe is not helping themselves, they are making it really convenient for people to just use the Apple eco system and ignore everything else.

I remember my old Lightroom and photoshop elements didn’t need any login or cloud privilege’s to keep a local catalog function of all my images without the need to upload anything to the cloud, that should still be an option.

I trust Apple with my information more than I trust Google or Adobe, so I am staying as far away from Adobe as I can, they are sabotaging themselves.

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