The Most Common Question About Lightroom Mobile ANSWERED

[@RoxanneBaggott]

Brian, I just have to say a huge thank you! I purchased your Lightroom everywhere course and it is an unbelievably informative course. This video was in that course and I learned so much. It made me tackle the project of cleaning out 7000 photos from my eye photos. Probably 6500 of them are junk photos. The video helped to understand how easy it is to bring them from iPhoto into Lightroom. I purchased the one terabyte of storage And absolutely love that I can work on my iPhone and then work on my iPad and go to my desktop and everything that I do is reflected on all of the devices. Thank you so much for all that you do. Now, if there was only a magic wand to clean out 6000 junk photos from the camera roll.😂

[@brianmatiash]

Thank YOU so much for your support and for that lovely testimonial, Roxanne!

[@GarryKnight]

Auto sync is a great feature. And you mentioned backups. Auto sync will certainly create a copy but as soon as you erase the photo from your Photos app, that copy is the only copy. Yes, it will be synced to your Adobe account, but only if a) you’ve remembered to turn on syncing; and b) you’ve got a good internet connection. Where I do most of my photography, in central London, there’s so much contention on the cell masts that I can’t upload, download, or sync data. So I won’t delete anything from Photos unti l get home. You also mentioned screenshots. Raw photos have huge file sizes. Jpgs have big file sizes. Screen shots are smaller. but still bigger than they need to be. I often want to embed photos and screenshots into my Notes. And Lightroom is a great place to resize them so they take up much less room. I can import them, resize them to 800 px at 70% and take up only a fraction of my phone’s storage, and my iCloud storage once I delete the original.

[@paulhoekstra1605]

Hi Brian, great instructional vid. I use the 100% auto import as I don’t take many photos with the native camera app, but use the Lightroom camera which imports automatically, and don’t want to miss or forget those few. The cloud sends them down to Lightroom Classic where I move, cull and edit. Once I have confirmed they are safely in Classic I delete them from the cloud and photos app. I then sync the ones I select back to the cloud as smart previews. I have thousands of images on my mobile devices which use very little storage on the cloud or device.

[@christopherbrown9927]

Thanks Brian. Now I'll have to figure out which works the best for me. I'll be watching this video again.....

[@stephengibbons]

There may be the odd time I have to move pics around but as a general rule for snapshots I use iphone camera app, for 'proper' photos I use the LR camera app. Same result, works for me.

[@WillNewcomb]

Thanks. I've learned a lot!!!

[@jtinoco9859]

What a great way to manage photos both in LR mobile and the iPhone app! I’ll be implementing your hybrid method. Thank you for the video once again!

[@teresababer5310]

This answered so many questions - thanks!!!

[@bruceatkinson932]

Hi Brian, excellent guidance indeed. I’ve found myself edging more and more towards using my iPhone only rather than my DSLR although I must admit I also sometimes feel a bit guilty about it. One thing you didn’t mention has to do with the little blue oval on the bottom right of the screen. As I’m sure you know, I f you select the little file icon while in a specific album you have the option of importing from either the Photos app or a file folder in the Files app. I find this later option useful because I commonly use ProCamera and have the photos go into the Lighbox rather than the Photos app / iCloud that is shared with my wife. After importing into Lr I then delete the photos from Lightbox. After editing I then export to the Photos app for sharing, etc.

[@craigjok]

Nicely Done 👍🏿

[@yomismo1945]

Hi Brian, I have gotten used to processing everything on the desktop and putting the finishing touches, like resizing, transforming, adding my signature, and sharing from my phone.

[@davalvideo]

Great video, as always, and I'm really enjoying the Lightroom Everywhere course. I'll be using my iPhone 16 Pro Max in Armenia later this year, and your lessons will go a long way toward making my iPhone/Lightroom workflow as smooth as possible.

[@brianmatiash]

That’s so kind of you! Thank you so much and best wishes for a great trip!

[@NiclasPonten]

Thanks, a lot of learning

[@1will4783]

Thks, so much for the class.

[@dsorx]

I learned a lot about Lightroom Mobile in this video! The auto import into an album is so cool and I didn't know you can safely delete from the Camera Roll once the import is done. Great tips here. I haven't really explored Mobile, but will now for sure.

[@brianmatiash]

Music to my ears, my friend!

[@jorgebracero3614]

As usual, excellent explanation. Thank you very much.

[@brianmatiash]

My pleasure! Glad you found it helpful!

[@valeriyredko8991]

Hi Brian, I am travelling Hawaii and use Lightroom on iPad Pro. I am on 20Gb plan and you can imagine how quickly Adobe cloud fills up - 2 days. I wish iPad version could support Lightroom working directly with SD cards or an external SSD. I ended up using Files app to move images from SD cards to a folder on SSD but I can’t use Lightroom for editing or culling. Even using iPad’s internal storage would have been great. Would you by any chance know if this is something Adobe is working on? I am an Lr Classic user mostly do the cloud option isn’t for me. Thanks Val.

[@JorgeLausell]

Thank you! I'm just returning to taking photos. Working out my workflows. Would you show how to get photos from cameras into my tablet, to be worked on, then available on my desktop, where I can shift ones over to my local drives to nap there? That make sense? I want photos I take with my phone, and cameras, to flow either to my tablet, for cafe processing fun, and then to home, to eventually rest in my local drives, or directly to home. I want to keep what is available on the cloud to be works in progress and curated ones.

[@TC_Conner]

Very interesting Brian. I just wish I could somehow get used to editing images on my iPhone with Lr mobile. I've been trying for years to no avail. But hey, I can still have hope can't I? 😎

[@brianmatiash]

I hear you. For me, it was one of those things where once I developed the muscle memory for it, I never looked back.

[@TC_Conner]

@@brianmatiash At my age, muscle memory is pretty much non-existent! Lol!

[@brianmatiash]

🤣🤣

[@RomanRogner]

Thanks, Brian, for the tips! How, please, can I easily get photos from LR into Apple Photos?

[@larry5018]

Isn't using the Lightroom mobile camera add captures to the cloud? Then to cull and delete not the Best to save cloud space?

[@RoxanneBaggott]

After watching this video, I was wondering if I share an album in Lightroom does that person have to have an Adobe account? I am actually trying to move all of my photos out of iCloud and into Lightroom. But don’t want to do that if the sharing process will not be as seamless with my family as it would by keeping it in iPhotos

[@brianmatiash]

You can share albums so that anyone with the link can view the contents. They’ll need an Adobe ID to interact (Like and Comment).

[@johngrant765]

How can I make Lightroom mobile to not change the identification numbers on my photos.