Lightroom mobile syncing has been around since 2015, at a time when few people other than the Adobe engineers had access to the necessary bandwidth to make a cloud-based Lightroom a viable proposition.Īround this time I had just a 3MB internet connection and I struggled to carry out any meaningful work using the cloud-based features. Let’s now consider some of the drawbacks to working with the cloud-based version of Lightroom. Using the cloud-based Lightroom apps you can quickly create Web galleries from synced albums I am not sure every photographer wants to have their pictures photo-edited by a computer, but this can usefully be used to make a first-pass cull of shots from a large number of captures.
In addition, tucked away in the Lightroom on Web interface is a ‘Choose Best Photos’ feature that uses artificial intelligence to select the best photos based on composition as well as manually-adjusted criteria. Lightroom can still make use of any keywords present, but for the most part is doing a visual search similar to the way that a Google search engine works. The cloud-based Lightroom search engine carries out searches based on machine learning Artificial Intelligence to filter the results. The other interesting thing is the way intense computational work is off-loaded to the cloud. In fact, the ease with which you can do this now makes the Lightroom Classic Web module somewhat redundant. Photos synced to the cloud can easily be shared via Lightroom Web galleries. For example, I primarily use the Lightroom camera on my iPhone because it can shoot in raw DNG mode, offers advanced camera controls and automatically syncs all my smartphone photos to the Adobe Cloud and Lightroom Classic. However, as long as you are aware of some of the pitfalls of combining the two, a mix and match approach can be made to work. Searching images with any of the cloud-based Lightroom apps (such as for ‘cats’) works whether images are keyworded or not The official Adobe line is that customers should adopt either a Lightroom Classic desktop, or a Lightroom cloud-based workflow and not combine the two. Your iPad could then be stolen, or dropped in the sea, yet the imported photos can still be accessed on your other devices, as long as they have been backed up to the cloud. For example, you could go away on holiday, shoot lots of photos and import these to, say, an iPad.
The main selling point here is that the files you import via any of the above interfaces are automatically backed up to the cloud and synced to all other devices that share the same Adobe account. This includes a cloud-based-only desktop app called Photoshop Lightroom, Lightroom on Mobile, Lightroom on iPad/Android, Lightroom on Web and Lightroom on Apple TV. Lightroom Classic is the regular desktop version of Lightroom.Įverything else is to do with the Adobe Cloud. This is where it can get a little bit confusing because of the similarity of the names. You can use the Lightroom Classic desktop program to continue working in Lightroom just as you have always done, or work with the cloud-based versions of Lightroom. The Lightroom on iOS app includes a camera mode, allowing you to capture and import using the raw DNG format Similarly, files created in Photoshop, saved as a PSDC, will also appear available in Photoshop on iPad. Files created in Photoshop on iPad can be saved using the new PSDC format and saved to the Adobe Cloud, where they can be shared between other computers/devices, or shared with other Adobe account users. For example, Photoshop on iPad provides Photoshop editing tools on an iPad device, such as layers for compositing work. However, the most useful benefit is having access to the cloud-based features. In particular, Camera Raw support for the latest cameras and lens profiles. Subscribing to any of the Photography plans means you’ll always have access to the latest version of each program.
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Lightroom on iPad or Android allows you to import, edit and rate images.