Lightroom for iOS Gains Support for Direct Photo Imports

[MacRumors]

Adobe today announced that the Lightroom photo editing app for iOS devices is gaining a new feature that allows for direct photo imports.

With today's update, when you connect a Lightning to SD adapter or Lightning to USB 3.0 adapter to iPhone or a USB-C card reader to iPad, you can directly import RAW files into Lightroom without the need to make an extra copy in the built-in iOS camera roll.

Adobe says that imports happen faster and won't take up extra device space because there's no need for duplicate copies.

With the direct import feature, full resolution RAW photos can be edited in Lightroom for iOS using all of the editing capabilities that are also found on the desktop version of Lightroom. Photo edits are synced via Creative Cloud and accessible on all devices connected to the same account.

Lightroom for iOS is also gaining expanded exporting features and improvements to shared albums. With the advanced exporting options, it's now possible to select file type, pixel dimensions, compression, watermark, file name, output sharpening, and color space when exporting, and there's an option to export multiple files in their original file type.

Through the new Shared Albums feature, anyone can now add photos to a shared album that they have access to directly from their device, even with no paid membership.

Adobe Lightroom for iOS can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

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[cBraunDesign]

Slowly but surely chipping away to make Lightroom Mobile a viable alternative to Lightroom Classic. There are still a huge number of features needed to make that jump, but every few months they add a handful. A few years from now they'll have rebuilt Lightroom from the ground up.

Now, if they could just figure out how to make it all much faster...

 

[pika2000]

I’m surprised how many photographers actually do edit their photos on their mobiles, even on their iPhones. It’s really a new world we’re going into.

 

[gnomeisland]

Lightroom Mobile is the only thing tempting me to come back to the Adobe fold. I prefer editing photos on my iPad Pro but there are no good combo DAM/photo editors except Lightroom. There are some decent ones but they basically overlay functionality over Apple Photos which, while useful in some workflows, is a kludge IMO for culling and fine editing.

 

[Cybbe]

I’m surprised how many photographers actually do edit their photos on their mobiles, even on their iPhones. It’s really a new world we’re going into.

I find editing on an iPad Pro to be an overall pretty nice experience. Not much lacking from the desktop version, and quite speedy as well. It is the DAM aspects of the cloud version that are much poorer than Classic, and I fear it won’t be improved much due the cloud nature of the product (they don’t want people to manage their stuff manually). No map module, poor metadata editing capabilities, worse keyword management.

iPhone, well not ideal, but okay for quick culling or even a rapid edit in a pinch.

 

[falainber]

Slowly but surely chipping away to make Lightroom Mobile a viable alternative to Lightroom Classic. There are still a huge number of features needed to make that jump, but every few months they add a handful. A few years from now they'll have rebuilt Lightroom from the ground up.

Now, if they could just figure out how to make it all much faster...

In a year or two iPhone won't have any ports. I wonder why Adobe even bothered with this new feature.

 

[nburwell]

I’m surprised how many photographers actually do edit their photos on their mobiles, even on their iPhones. It’s really a new world we’re going into.

For quick edits, it works great (for me at least). Although I generally always bring my MacBook with me on trips so that each day, I can unload the RAW files from my SD card to my laptop for processing in LR and PS. But LR mobile is fanatic for on the fly editing. I just don't think I could exclusively edit my images on my iPhone though. YMMV.

 

[melgross]

This is great. I do a lot of work on my iPad Pro 12.9”. This makes it better. We’ve got a fair amount of capable editing apps for iOS, and they keep getting better.

 

[zorinlynx]

In a year or two iPhone won't have any ports. I wonder why Adobe even bothered with this new feature.

Is there any truth to this rumor? Considering Apple recently started including a high power charger in the box and pushing fast charging as a feature, limiting iPhones to slow Qi charging sounds like a pretty sudden reversal.

 

[cBraunDesign]

I find editing on an iPad Pro to be an overall pretty nice experience. Not much lacking from the desktop version, and quite speedy as well. It is the DAM aspects of the cloud version that are much poorer than Classic, and I fear it won’t be improved much due the cloud nature of the product (they don’t want people to manage their stuff manually). No map module, poor metadata editing capabilities, worse keyword management.

iPhone, well not ideal, but okay for quick culling or even a rapid edit in a pinch.

If Adobe can work out how to add more DAM functionality to the desktop version of LRCC, I think that could go a long way toward making it more of a replacement for Classic. I think the vision for how the desktop and mobile versions should be different is cloudy at best.