iPad Photography Workflow 2023 | iPad Air 4 + Lightroom CC + Anker 11-in-1 USB-C Hub

[@Reggiebphoto]

Ya boy is back on KZbin! Let me know what videos you want to see 🙌🏽

[@MyMuzikEnt]

Good evening good sir. I see that your Lightroom setup was for a left hand orientation. Are you able to provide me the steps to getting that up. By the way. Great video.

[@kentao4]

I came here to figure out how to use my iPad for getting photos to my external but you explained your steps in your editing work flow plus explaining certain buttons that I just haven’t figured out! Thank you so much!!

[@Reggiebphoto]

Amazing!

[@krieseljoris]

I own only an iPad. It was by choice. I want to be able to edit anywhere. I love it.

[@Juliansliving]

I just got an iPad Air 5 so I’m just getting into working it into my editing workflow. So far I like it. You taught me something with turning off the true tone. Didn’t even think of that. nice video.

[@aznhippos]

Had been importing all my photos, culling, and not deleting the photos after. Running out of 2TB quickly, the deleting + keeping them on SSD was insightful!

[@Reggiebphoto]

Awesome, glad it helped!

[@jorgepvenegas]

I'm impressed to see how easy it handles the RAW previews during the culling process

[@mattgermond7957]

Thanks Reggie! So good to have you back on KZbin! My kids appropriated my laptop for virtual learning over the last year so I moved my process onto my iPad pro. I love it. Your video gave so many pointers about the screen settings and culling process, thank you. Would love to see your thoughts on editing video on the iPad and creating time lapse sequences. Thank you!👍

[@Reggiebphoto]

Oh yes, I gotta try editing video soon!

[@marvesrivas307]

My MacBook Air is so old and slow now. So I found it better editing on my fiancé’s iPad. I keep “borrowing” it for the last few photoshoots I’ve done. The screen is perfect and the speed is great for everything you need to do in Lightroom. Also so awesome seeing Reggie back on KZbin!

[@Reggiebphoto]

Thanks! Happy to be back!

[@Cearbhaill78]

Great to see you back, Reggie! This is one of the best iPad workflow tutorials I’ve seen. Not surprising, of course, as you always put out quality content. Thanks!

[@Reggiebphoto]

That’s my friend! Do you edit on an iPad?

[@Cearbhaill78]

@@Reggiebphoto Yep! Editing on an iPad with an Apple Pencil is my favorite way to edit photos. I have an external monitor and laptop for when I’m making prints or just need more real estate, but I prefer the iPad.

[@Reggiebphoto]

Any other workflow tips or apps that you like to use but I didn’t mention? I’m sure you know more than me about iPad workflow haha

[@royasha746]

@@Cearbhaill78 This is what I would like to do, but from what I have read the edits I would make in LRcc don't transfer to LRClassic where my workflow resides and images are stored. Is this accurate? I'm curious about your process. Seems cumbersome to have one organization/workflow/edits in the cloud related to iPad and LRcc, and another in catalogues on ssd interacting with LRc on laptop (I keep everything on ssd). Probably I just don't know quite enough to understand this bridge.

[@rs779]

Good video for me as I just started using iPad Pro to cull, edit etc. can you describe a) how you synchronized from the iPad to Classic (did you do it through Edit-Preferences-Lightroom Sync; if yes did you create the Catalogue to sync to first?), b) when photos were synced from iPad, how did you get them to a location on your pictures folder and then how did you delete the raw files from your iPad.

[@twaksak69]

Greetings from SouthAfrica! Just got myself an iPad Thank you for this vid Answered all my questions.Take care and all the Best

[@capt6125]

Thanks Reggie! My laptop recently started acting up I and started searching KZbin for other ways to make the photo work flow work. I’m not a professional, but enjoy working on my photography and learning from professionals like you. I stumbled across your video and was instantly hooked. It gave me a new way of editing my images. Thanks again and I’m looking forward to watching your other videos.

[@pmcmillan]

Great to have you back Reggie! 👏

[@Reggiebphoto]

Thanks Phil!

[@KvvianD]

Perfect video for me. Showed all the “basic steps.” Thank you!

[@birgitkrippner4546]

Excellent video, thanks heaps! I just got the iPad Air and starting creating my workflow when I travel, away from my MacBook Pro. I really enjoy it!

[@jensarne5773]

Thanks a lot! Your video made a few things more cleare. Think I will get an external drive and keyboard for my iPad Pro. I use Lightroom cc and the biggest thing for me is that I Can edit on different platforms; phone, tablet, iMac and have acsess to my photos everywhere. Inspiring!

[@Reggiebphoto]

Yeah totally. That would be a stellar cloud workflow

[@TedTalksTech]

Welcome back! Thanks for sharing this workflow! I usually use Pixelmator Pro when editing on my iPad which means I have shoot my RAWs uncompressed which means HUGE file sizes. I'll give Lightroom CC another chance.

[@Reggiebphoto]

Oh wow. I’ve never heard of that app

[@veronicas37th]

For the past two months, I was without my computer and had to edit photos on my phone using Adobe cc. This video would have been extremely helpful.

[@Reggiebphoto]

Let me know if you have any questions!

[@2071photo]

i'm so late to the game but i just ordered an ipad pro to edit my leica m10 files on, so excited! Thanks for the tips in this video Reggie ^_^

[@Reggiebphoto]

Yooo fasho. What’s up Rafael!

[@PeterUrbanScotMcConnochie]

I think I’m gonna move to iPad editing now! Thanks

[@wrk4mines]

Good to see you back bro!😎

[@Reggiebphoto]

Yes!

[@studiojege287]

Good stuff!! Bought an andoid tablet, will be the first Lr CC experience :)

[@Arzidaz]

Thank you for this video! Would you recommend an ipad over a macbook as a primary device for portrait photographers? Regards

[@Reggiebphoto]

@@Arzidaz I personally wouldn’t

[@Arzidaz]

@ appreciate the response, I’ll stick with the MacBook then 👍🏽

[@lazarusdig1264]

When you mentioned using the hub for teaching, are you using the HDMI port or the Display Port?

[@Reggiebphoto]

Hdmi

[@cierranicholephotos2292]

Do you have any video on how to use an external hard drive on iPad Air

[@Reggiebphoto]

I was using an external drive on the iPad Air.

[@xuchen1830]

Good to see you back! I wonder if working on the iPad requires saving all the raw files on iPad or it is possible to have the files in the external storage?

[@Reggiebphoto]

It requires the raws on the iPad. That’s the main flaw of the workflow. Unless you sunc the smart previews from lr classic

[@timothylinn]

Hey, Reggie. Nice tutorial. Quick question. In your example, you downloaded the images from the SD card to an external drive. Then you imported into Lr on the iPad from that external drive. Did that step copy the files onto your iPad? This has always been the deal killer for me with an all-iOS workflow. I was limited by the amount of my Lr storage because the catalog couldn't reference files on an external drive. Has that changed? On a different subject, I believe iOS 15 will finally give us a progress circle when transferring files.

[@Reggiebphoto]

The importing to the drive was for pure backup purposes

[@timothylinn]

@@Reggiebphoto Gotcha. That is a shame. There's no reason Adobe couldn't let us work off external drives attached to our iPad. The functionality is available with other apps. Instead, they force us to shuttle files on and off the iPad.

[@Reggiebphoto]

Yeah I’m sure it’ll come eventually.

[@marcusineson]

Thanks Reggie really useful. I’ve been editing on my iPad for a while now but seeing your workflow is very helpful. Still not sure if I am going to move from Lightroom Classic to the CC on my MacMini though need to decide soon through

[@Reggiebphoto]

Yeah classic still has its place as my main workflow but it’s nice to know this workflow when the right situations calls for it

[@supercrazpianomanaic]

Awesome Tutorial! Can you explain why normal iPad airband not iPad pro?

[@Reggiebphoto]

It was just a cost motivated decision for me. The pro didn't have any features that i felt were needed over the ipad air 4 now that the air had compatibility with magic keyboard, pencil, and usb-c

[@tfphoto-mellomromfoto]

Nice video! Is select subject possible on lightroom cc on ipad now?

[@Reggiebphoto]

Yup

[@yunabriones7913]

Amazing video! This is very helpful!

[@story.allegory]

So, if you sync them to LR Classic, do you have to keep them saved onto the cloud to be able to access them? And also, could you do a video explaining how that cloud system works? I've been using LR for years and I still don't get it. My Cloud is just full and I don't use it anymore!

[@celhemilio]

heeey man you got any video showing how to install your presets on iPad?? I would like to get them !

[@Reggiebphoto]

Yeah I show it in this video

[@VeeMayor]

Do you ever have corruption issues when sending files to your external hard drive? I'm assuming the hard drive is formatted as exFAT so that you can see your files both in Windows and iPad/MacOS?

[@Reggiebphoto]

Haven’t had an issue yet as long as I eject it properly

[@VeeMayor]

@@Reggiebphoto is there a certain way to eject? I heard that theres no proper way to eject on ipad

[@richardmeftah2569]

Thanks a lot Reggie. That was really helpful.👍🏼

[@TCinSoCal]

Thank you!! Do you know if iPad Air will power a CFexpress card reader?

[@Reggiebphoto]

I have not tried yet

[@DDHDTV]

very helpful, thank you! landed on here via reddit recommendation. Gotta figure out how I want to manage my syncing with lightroom classic. Would love to have the edits as XML land on my plugged in harddrive, have you figured something out there?

[@Chelsea-rv9hm]

How do you find it works if you have a big workload? For weddings etc. and can you import presets in LRC iPad Pro m1? I shoot in raw as well. I’ve just been thinking about it but would like to get enough info before I decide to purchase an iPad vs 😊a new MacBook

[@accentontheoff]

Nice video thanks. Mind sharing the specs of your desktop. Curious as to what constitutes a good video+photo machine.

[@amitmelb]

For all the features demonstrated here in Lightroom; do we need a paid subscription or will the free version do?

[@victorkhoo6868]

Hi, thanks for your video, I am doing the same as what you do, but I do not want to occupy my limited cloud storage of 20g, is there a way to just keep the smart preview instead of the full-size photo in the cloud?

[@gessinibirad2980]

Hi! You said this ipad air is color accurate. How does it compare to new iphones? My macbook seems so dull compared to my iphone and im trying to get an ipad for photo editing. Thanks much!

[@Reggiebphoto]

I haven’t tried the new iPhone yet

[@Borg4]

Can you make a video tutorial on how to import videos from camera to ipad.

[@pagpapaitim]

whoa... just want to make sure... because you said remove photos so it doesn't take up any space on ipad but it's on the external drive... so Lr can import from the external drive but the pictures still reside on the external drive and not the ipad?

[@thenordical853]

Are you editing from the external drive? I want to buy an iPad Air, but I’m worried about filling up the internal storage.

[@juanfelipezapata2594]

Hey Reggie, Is very educational all of this, good job. I have question... Which type of files can be imported into lightroom in the ipad. You imported JPG or Raw? Thank you.

[@Reggiebphoto]

I imported the raw

[@Badong2713]

Hello Reggie! I have been looking for a good usb hub that can charge my ipad while using. Do you use a different charging adapter or you use the one supplied by apple? I read that the usb hub alone gets 15W for operation. What is your recommended charging brick for the ipad while using a hub? Thanks!!

[@serial_ghost1005]

I'm thinking about buying an ipad air for my photo editing. I never used apple before and i wanted to ask you if you would recommend the ipad air based on its screen and work speed. 😁 Best regards

[@57sapke]

Thanks for the tutorial, I have a question. I want directly connect (tethering) my camera to Lightroom cc on my phone/ipad. Now I use snapbridge and have to send it to Lightroom.

[@alhadad1979]

Hello Reggie, I have this question in mind l: Is it possible to tether using lightroom (or any other software) on ipad? If it is, then which is better using ipad or pc?

[@Reggiebphoto]

As far as I know it’s not possible

[@chris-thereelgenius]

you can use capture one or cascable

[@heythere6983]

I was looking into this but then read the m1 performs basically the same as the non m1 chip, the A12z. Apparently it’s bc the apps aren’t even optimized for the m1 so the a12z is apparently just as good, kinda surprised me . Do you have experience with the other iPads chips, like the a12Z? Or newer versions of non m chip iPads ?

[@Reggiebphoto]

This isn’t an m1 chip tho is it? iPad Air 4

[@alexnrs8700]

Hi Reggie. A question for you re Fuji raw files and worms/softness/blur in Lightroom on iPad that I think might be helpful to your viewer-base as well should you choose to repond…. I’m a long time follower/admirer and Canon 7d2 shooter. You single-handedly got me interested in Fuji but I haven’t yet made the switch. Perhaps til now. The Canon R7 disappointed me and the X-H2s ticks all my wish list boxes. My only concern over switching is the dreaded Fuji worms/blur issue caused by adobe’s raw convert engine that still seems to get a lot of attention. I’m not interested in using Lightroom’s enhance feature or third party raw transformers as i don’t want the file size penalties or workflow time/complexity costs (your video on this a few years back was great and very helpful, thanks). Moreover I’ve pretty much migrated to doing all my culling and editing in Lightroom on iPad at this point. All that said, here’s my question… Is the worms/softness/blur issue still a problem today when editing Fuji RAW files in Lightroom, specifically on the iPad? If yes, is it an “all files“ or a “certain files“ thing, or not at all anymore? Also, if worms/blur is still a problem with Fuji in Adobe, have you noticed if there is a difference in Lightroom on the iPad vs computer at this point? I’ve looked around a lot and haven’t been able to assess this for myself. Hoping you might be able to provide some insight. Thanks in advance! Much appreciated. Happy your back. I very much enjoy your content and perspectives.

[@Reggiebphoto]

I have 2 videos on sharpening/worms that explained the "problem". Check those out, if you're not satisfied then i recommend you consider capture one and/or just don't switch to fujifilm.

[@alexnrs8700]

@@Reggiebphoto Thanks Reggie. I’ll rewatch those videos. Perhaps I missed something.

[@petelindsay3001]

How did you get Lightroom classic to work on your iPad Air? I have the iPad Pro and I can only use the mobile version of Lightroom. I’d love to be able to use classic

[@larryharvey3412]

Great tutorial Reggie. What app/software did you use to do the screen capture with the camera inlay in the lower left? Looks very nice.

[@Reggiebphoto]

+Larry Harvey it’s either an xt3 or xs10

[@Moto_Yelt]

can you export straight from lightroom to your external ssd? like choose a folder?

[@williamaungleyraud]

So can you import the RAF raw files or do you have to convert them to DNG? I'm looking to achieve something similar to this but either on a Samsung tablet or I'm looking forward to the new Galaxy Fold 3.

[@Reggiebphoto]

nope, it works right inside the lightroom cc app.

[@williamaungleyraud]

@@Reggiebphoto oh that's great to know, thanks Reggie 😎📷

[@Reggiebphoto]

You’re welcome!

[@AnnkurKumar]

How you carry all this stuff?? Shown on thumbnail of the video??

[@Reggiebphoto]

i don't. that's all my stuff for recording a youtube video. they stey in my office

[@Ahmedoovxx]

Nice video. I just wanna ask, what is the best app to edit fuji raw files on the Ipad? Affinity or LR? hopefully we can have C1 app on the ipad soon. Thx Reg

[@Reggiebphoto]

Best is def personal preference. I haven’t tested them all

[@alvinvelez5543]

Timely vid sir. Been looking at iPad air vs Pro for lightroom. The power supply of my pc... mejo pumutok 😅😥

[@Reggiebphoto]

Nice any questions?

[@alvinvelez5543]

Actually now that i think about it heres a question, so you were able to import your files from your sd/ipad, did some edits and stuff. Now what if i transfer my raw files (not the cloud files) to my main pc/laptop. Will the edits be synced from Lr Cc to Lr Classic?

[@Reggiebphoto]

It’s easier if it syncs via the cloud and then full raw with be synced and edited.

[@gabeschiff-verre4260]

Do you use smart previews?

[@Reggiebphoto]

you have to when editing on mobile

[@gabeschiff-verre4260]

Only images synced to adobe cloud or stored on iPad as well?

[@itsmelive]

Thank you this was exactly helpful

[@HarryBird-b4g]

Is it able to edit 16 bit raw files?

[@eavesphoto]

Does the Anker have the faster SD card UHS-II that handles the 300 MB per second cards (w rows of contacts on the back). Most USB-C hub card readers don’t

[@Reggiebphoto]

great question, i don't know off the top of my head. i'll have to check

[@eavesphoto]

@@Reggiebphoto it doesn't support SD UHS-II Cards at the faster download SD UHS-II Card on a SD card UHS-II reader vs Non

[@Reggiebphoto]

Yeah I’m aware of that

[@n00bguitarist88]

I just bought Ipad to my workflow. I wish LR could read out from ssd, theres no way that my 40gb of free space would be enough for 4 days music festival I shoot, when theres no wifi to upload on cloud. Btw. Try FE explorer for transfering from sd to ssd, it has progress bar and works much smoother than Files app :)

[@jojowill6606]

Thank for sharing.

[@Reggiebphoto]

Thanks for watching!

[@michalforysiak9219]

Hi, good to see you back!! Are you using camera raw to edit photos on your laptop or you are still using Lightroom only?

[@Reggiebphoto]

Lightroom only. Camera raw engine and lightroom's raw engine is exactly the same.

[@gilbertogranados3018]

hey Reggie, do you shoot raw or jpeg? I do also own an XT4 and an ipad and was looking for some portability just like you, just dont know if the ipad is going to slow down to an unprecedented speed to where it becomes unusable

[@Razjoy]

Great tutorial! I'm looking at upgrading a 5yr old iPad pro and seeing what photographers are using these days. For upgrading i'm looking at pro vs air. It was nice to see your way of working with the lower memory of the air with the external hard drive. do you do any video editing? would that make a difference on memory size?

[@gsanchez922]

Which one did you ending up getting?

[@ed8311]

What do you do with screen brightness when editing? I find it a necessity to edit at 100%brightness and found it hugely disappointing when i figured out that my ipad pro 2021 m1 12,9 auto dims down the peak brightness of the display when it get hot, specially as it hapens just after 10-20 minutes of editing in lighroom. You dont have the same issue?

[@Reggiebphoto]

100% brightness will lead to inaccurate edits.

[@adiazgargiulo]

Hey i can't find anywhere if i can connect the camera directly without any dongle to the iPad. I have a Sony a7c

[@Mr.C0ffee]

4:17 what app you use to draw on the pictures?

[@janetbealtruist8699]

Thank you

[@richardlim8]

Do you think that editing photos using iPad Air is sufficient or if an iPad Pro would work better ?

[@johnchristiandelacruz3676]

helloo. how do i switch it to left hand editing,

[@nikolajpetrov8262]

Noteworthy to add that the Pro iPads USB-C speeds are significantly higher than the Airs. Copying will be faster. If you copy many photos regularly you should consider that.

[@gunairy]

Weirdly specific question: Does anyone know if I can pick up where I left off editing off an SSD? So say I plug an SSD into my MacBook, edit the photos on it locally, without importing to the cloud in Lightroom, unplug it, and plug it into the iPad... Can I then pick up right where I left off? Edits made on the laptop saved, etc. etc.?

[@Reggiebphoto]

it doesn't work that way. i'd recommend rendering smart previews, and syncing that to a cloud collection on lightroom on your computer. then go to your iPad, and download them from the cloud and continue.

[@gunairy]

@@Reggiebphoto Ah I see, I'm going to keep an eye on lightroom ipad features. Hopefully they add that one day. The syncing between devices seems so clumsy as it stands now.

[@sherwincapuno9123]

Good Day Sir Reggie. Its nice that I can watch again your videos. My question is about your thought on Topaz Sharpen/Gigapixel/DeNoise AI. Is it much better than that of lightroom classic CC or is it nearly the same?. Hope to hear your thoughts about these ones. Thank you for your answer. God bless.😁👍

[@Reggiebphoto]

I’ve never tried topaz

[@timothylinn]

Yes, yes, and yes. You get superior results with Topaz at the cost of having to export a TIFF or PSD on which to use the plug ins. If DxO follows through on its promise to start supporting X-Trans files, PureRAW should give you even better results than DeNoiseAI. There are plenty of YT videos showing what all these products can do. The results can really be outstanding.

[@ILZHOO]

After culling in LR on IPad I want to delete all unflagged photos. But LR doesn’t delete it from local store or external SSD. How you all managed it? I really want work like it was in classic LR, and don’t want use cloud at all.

[@Reggiebphoto]

Currently it doesn’t work that way

[@pitikeli8679]

Hala. Puwede namna plansabysabay lagyan ng preset. Hahahahah

[@alnoormeralli]

Hi Reggie. I am new to the iPad. I got the Pro M1 and find it to be a great entertainment device but difficult to use for photo management. Are you able to offload say around 1,000 RAW files from a CFexpress card reader to an SSD using the iPad and hub without failing? My XPS15 is faultless with no need for dongles and the screen is color managed. I was hoping to use this powerful iPad instead when travelling but it does not seem to work at all well for basic file management.

[@Reggiebphoto]

i would say file transfer is the most nerve wracking part about the whole order. i have actually transitioned to a 14 inch macbook pro.

[@royvalera1489]

Di mo kami maloloko Ogie Alcasid...😂

[@Lucas-vj8rr]

can't save my jpg webready

[@Rocodil]

What I really do not understand, why you add your photos to files! You can import them directly from your SD Card into Lightroom. The photos will be directly uploaded when you are connected to WiFi. You have your backup with that correct, as long you do not delete them from the SD card. At your desktop you can keep a copy somewhere as they will automatically be downloaded. The advantage of this workflow is that you do not use the additional expensive Apple iCloud in parallel to the Adobe cloud. You do not need the external drive. This way it also does not take disk space on your iPad because of Lr file management which keeps the photos in the cloud.

[@Reggiebphoto]

I didn’t put them in files. I put them in my ssd using the files app

[@Rocodil]

@@Reggiebphoto I understand, I overlooked that. Nevertheless, one can just import in Lr directly. In preferences on the desktop, select local storage and the files will be backed-up on your desktop hard drive (true imbedded in Lr) without the need of the external SSD. If you like you can also export original files to a different desk top location (with the benefit that you have your changes in the XMP sidecar). Anyway, the biggest challenge as you know is to manage all these different versions of the photos. That is why I personally prefer to keep everything in Lr -cc and nothing else. I like your videos, thanks!

[@Reggiebphoto]

I download the photos to my ssd as a redundant backup. These are client files. If you don’t care about that then proceed as you see fit.

[@hoangvienvan3689]

My original iPad is second generation so I waited a bit to upgrade. My original still works kzbin.infoUgkxUGaHtKW8MwCql2fPyIm9-ftTqSMzKFFA , but the battery is bad and won't stay charged so it always has to be plugged into a power source. The new 10th generation was a great bargain for Prime Day that I couldn't pass up. It was easy enough to set up: everything came down from iCloud with no issues.

[@tahiti1]

For ipad Affinity 2 For Ipad is much better than Lightroom

[@isaiahmarshall2656]

Video?

[@monhart7516]

r u related to oggie alcasid?😂

[@Reggiebphoto]

No

[@siekierkaKam]

not a fan of limited functionality of ios , apple should have ditched ios on ipad pro years ago since their m chips became really powerful , they shoot themselves in the foot

[@stefanlehmann_ch]

With this, you only have your files on your ipads. And if you do 10 Weddings in 2 Months, thats not an Option. I don't understand, why all wedding photographers show these workflows, its not usable for client work. I have to have my files on my samsung t7 oder any other storage, i would never store my files on my ipad only.

[@Reggiebphoto]

The edits sync over to the Lightroom on my computer (which has the hard drive with the files). I explained why I showed this workflow - to have flexibility editing while away from my desktop. It’s not practical in all cases.

[@andrewbrown535]

@@ReggiebphotoI think you did a great job being thorough! I don’t photograph in high volume for clients, so this video showed me that an iPad workflow could be very efficient for me! Thanks for sharing your experience Reggie!

[@fashopimpin]

If you have adobe cloud it also automatically backs up your raw files to the cloud. Then you can also connect sd drives to offload your files as well

[@jonpowell8503]

Way too many adverts. Got bored watching because of that

[@Reggiebphoto]

All good. It was a sponsored video

[@kbruff2010]

Thank you