{"id":9542,"date":"2019-11-19T00:38:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T08:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=9542"},"modified":"2019-11-19T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T21:53:00","slug":"bittersweet-symphony-lightroom-improves-ipad-import","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/19\/bittersweet-symphony-lightroom-improves-ipad-import\/","title":{"rendered":"Bittersweet Symphony: Lightroom improves iPad import"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHey, y\u2019all got a water desalination plant, \u2018cause I\u2019m&nbsp;<em>salty as hell<\/em>.<i>\u201d <\/i>&#x1f643;<\/p>\n<p>First, some good news: Lightroom is planning to improve the workflow of importing images from an SD card:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lightroom Sneak Peek: Seamless Import into Lightroom on iOS\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jGV9BbzjK3s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I know that this is something that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2010\/06\/of_lightroom_ipads_and_muffins.html\">photographers deeply wanted, starting in 2010<\/a>. I just wonder whether\u2014nearly 10 years since the launch of iPad\u2014it matters anymore.<\/p>\n<p>My failure, year in &amp; year out, to solve the problem at Adobe is part of what drove me to join Google in 2014. But even back then I <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/02\/will-apple-enable-iphone-camera-connection-kit-interop\/\">wrote<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I remain in sad amazement that 4.5 years after the iPad made tablets mainstream, no one\u2014not Apple, not Adobe, not Google\u2014has, to the best of my knowledge, implemented a way to let photographers to do what they&nbsp;beat me over the head for years&nbsp;requesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let me leave my computer at home &amp; carry just my tablet** &amp; camera<\/li>\n<li>Let me import my raw files (ideally converted to&nbsp;vastly smaller DNGs), swipe through them to mark good\/bad\/meh, and&nbsp;non-destructively edit them, singly or in batches, with full raw quality.<\/li>\n<li>When I get home, automatically sync all images + edits to\/via the cloud and let me keep editing there or on my Mac\/PC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>This remains a bizarre failure of our industry<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/lightroomjournal\/2014\/04\/the-field-triage-opportunity-for-lr-mobile.html\">this wasn\u2019t lost on the Lightroom team<\/a>, but for a whole bunch of reasons, it\u2019s taken this long to smooth out the flow, and during that time capture &amp; editing have moved heavily to phones. Tablets represent a single-digit percentage of Snapseed session time, and I\u2019ve heard the same from the makers of other popular editing apps. As phones improve &amp; dedicated-cam sales keep dropping, I wonder how many people will now care.<\/p>\n<p>On we go.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jGV9BbzjK3s\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHey, y\u2019all got a water desalination plant, \u2018cause I\u2019m&nbsp;salty as hell.\u201d &#x1f643; First, some good news: Lightroom is planning to improve the workflow of importing images from an SD card: I know that this is something that photographers deeply wanted, starting in 2010. I just wonder whether\u2014nearly 10 years since the launch of iPad\u2014it matters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9572,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542\/revisions\/9572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}