Now that LRM has the ability to do HDR photos with the built in camera, it would be nice to also be able to produce HDR images with imported photos. It should be fairly easy to implement since the coding is already done for the camera.
Like a panorama merge? That is already available. Or do you mean like a collage for a poster or somesuch? That is available in Classic in the print panel but not in cloud-based lightroom which cannot even print yet.
None of these excuses are viable. It is 2024 – 7 YEARS – after the first known request for this feature. The current 13" iPad Pro has an M4 processor and the same amount of RAM as a 14" MacBook Pro. Just give us the Mac app at this point.
This is LAZY and borderline malicious from Adobe management.
There must be some reason. There are so many people requesting this (including me) and Adobe is ignoring it for years. I don't know, what's the problem here. I need these functions frequently. Also there is no calibration panel and some masking options are missing, which are available on the lightroom mobile app on the macbook. It's frustrating.
it's just not enough. Lightroom [mobile] has become a mainstream product and we are requesting a niche feature. HDR is now something that in theory can be applied onto every image by just klicking a button. It's not the same as HDR merge, but for the mainstream users it is. Panoramas are something people take with their iPhones in panorama-mode, not stitch stuff together.
I'm not saying these things because I think that way, but from some Adobe corpos view this might just be the way it is. Why invest in development of features that won't be of interest by the mainstream audiences?
It really sucks and has nothing to do with the iPad's performance. I have a M2 iPad Pro and an old Macbook Pro from 2015 and I ONLY use that Macbook Pro because I need to frequently stitch photos together and load them directly into my lightroom library.
I'd love to use just the iPad for that but looks like I'll have to use Affinity Photo to do that.
@valcoholic I could somewhat get behind your argument on HDR: camera today have a vastly superior dynamic range than before, so you could manage to get the same range of colours as the old "HDR".
However... the "photo-merge HDR" has NOTHING to do with actual HDR, which is a completely different colour space.
The panorama argument is completely ridiculous though...
Market/user needs have mainly nothing to do with why Adobe doesn't update the iPad app; at least not the pro/enthensiast marker.
For god sake, it's still not even possible to set a custom crop ratio. Or have stacks of photo.
There's dozen of very basic features, that have been requested here for the last 7 years.
They are doing strictly the bare minimum to update the app with meaningful things, and only integrating something that would do the buzz, and can be used by any influencers on their phones.
If they want to make Lightroom something only used by superficial Instagramers, then please let us know now.
It shows across not just Lightroom, but also Photoshop or Premiere Rush.. both app being really pathetic, while the competition have simply ported their apps, with all features
Completely agree. They should be ashamed. I personally would be ashamed of myself if I put out anything this pitiful to the public with my name attached to it.
just port the Mac app! It's literally so much easier than trying to rewrite the whole program.
I have now waited a number of years for adobe to get LRm into rough parity with LR and LRc. What I get is new releases with a bunch of filter packs that I'm supposed to be happy with. I'm not.
Apple is in the process of buying Pixelmator. Photomator is not as capable as LR/LRc/LRm but, I dont care. I am just not going to give money to Adobe any more to get a bunch of filter packs as new "features" of LRm. I am in the process of switching. It will take a while. I dont shoot professionally any more so I am not tied to Adobe as I once was. Others may have no other viable options but I do.
Put some jelly in my pockets because I am soon to be toast.
I wouldn't count on Apple for anything. They had Aperture and gave up on it. They had Final Cut Pro and decided to stop making software for professional video editors with the FCP X release.
Sounds like there's a gap in the market that somebody needs to fill.
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