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Oct 23, 2015 7:50 PM in response to webjamesby gomaccrazy,I was curious about this too. I was thinking maybe there is a plugin so that you can export from Lightroom directly into Photos. However, the reasons for doing so; the sharing, the iCloud voo doo so all my devices sync, etc. canbe had if I simply put Mobile Lightroom on all my devices and then create collections. It is not quite as seamless as Photos, but it is close.
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Oct 30, 2015 3:19 AM in response to webjamesby KingRichard73,Its very simple . In Lightroom create an export preset to a folder of choice. Only at the end there is a line Post-Prosessing. When you set the command after export to open program (in this case Photos) osx Photos opens and imports the photo.
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Oct 30, 2015 3:30 AM in response to KingRichard73by Terence Devlin,But that's doubling up on disk space...
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Oct 30, 2015 7:42 AM in response to KingRichard73by MMCAN383,KingRichard73 wrote:
Its very simple . In Lightroom create an export preset to a folder of choice. Only at the end there is a line Post-Prosessing. When you set the command after export to open program (in this case Photos) osx Photos opens and imports the photo.
Can you create an export that always sends out new / changed images so that there are no gaps and no duplications (i.e. exporting the same image over & over)?
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Oct 30, 2015 7:43 AM in response to Terence Devlinby MMCAN383,Terence Devlin wrote:
But that's doubling up on disk space...
You can just view it as a backup. Ideally you'd put the photos library on a different disk from LR. Storage is cheap.
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Oct 30, 2015 7:59 AM in response to MMCAN383by Terence Devlin,The point of the thread was to us the apps together.
Has anyone figured out a way of using Photos for the iCloud integration and Lightroom for the editing and post processing?
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Oct 30, 2015 8:14 AM in response to Terence Devlinby MMCAN383,Terence Devlin wrote:
The point of the thread was to us the apps together.
Yes, but since you have pointed out on many occasions that there is no sensible way to do that, the thread has evolved to redefine "together" as any way to use LR for editing but benefit from the seamlessness of Photos on desktop / Web for viewing your collection whenever you wish. If LR did background sync of photos on their iOS app (they don't) and supported smart collections for synchronization to the iOS app (they don't), then we wouldn't need this.
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Oct 30, 2015 12:39 PM in response to MMCAN383by Terence Devlin,So, you know, the solution that was offered in my first post in the thread?
So, a workflow where you import to LR, process and then export to the Finder, and thereafter add to Photos is about the best there is, but that involves a lot of duplication.
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Nov 4, 2015 11:14 AM in response to MMCAN383by david in kula,Seems the original request can in fact be interpreted in a number of ways. For me, the workflow always starts in Lightroom as I prefer it's capabilities. The sticky part is when I want to have certain albums of photos on my iPhone just for viewing, which is easily handled by setting up published albums in Lightroom and then using those folders during iTunes sync with my iPhone. These folders can also be used via iTunes as the designated location for showing photos on my Apple TV. Since I don't care about using any of Photos' editing capabilities, workflow was pretty straightforward:
1. Import into Lightroom
2. Edit/classify/etc.
3. Publish to to folder(s)
4. Pull from folder(s) via iTunes into iPhone and Apple TV
The only duplication is the exported photos residing on the filesystem, but those are far lower res than the originals.
But it seems that with Apple TV gen 4, the iCloud Photo Library may be the only way to get my photos displayed. So now:
1. Import into Lightroom
2. Edit/classify/etc.
3. Publish to to folder(s)
4. Import from folder(s) into Photos for use by iCloud Photo Library
Keeping various albums intact of course. I'd love to combine 3 and 4, making the whole thing destructive -- if a photo is removed from the export album, it's correspondingly removed from the album in Photos. But I'm not finding a clean way to automate this from inside Lightroom -- the Publish facility doesn't have post-processing options like Export.
Just my two cents' worth...
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Nov 6, 2015 6:04 PM in response to david in kulaby MMCAN383,Keeping various albums intact of course. I'd love to combine 3 and 4, making the whole thing destructive -- if a photo is removed from the export album, it's correspondingly removed from the album in Photos. But I'm not finding a clean way to automate this from inside Lightroom -- the Publish facility doesn't have post-processing options like Export.
You can automate the process with AppleScript and some folder actions. Create a Folder Action that watches your primary publish folder. Then bind an AppleScript to run when a file(s) is dropped there. The AppleScript can import those images to Photos, create albums, whatever. If you want, you could possibly be able to drop the photos / re-add using the AppleScript that may accomplish picking up drops.
Another idea is to use something like PhotoSync and sync your published folder to your iOS device and let the device then sync those photos to Photos. I fear that this may sort of make the trip from iOS back to LR more complicated as the imported picture may appear "new".
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Nov 9, 2015 12:39 PM in response to MMCAN383by Bolish,With the support of a forum member (because I clearly don't know anything about Applescript), we have written a piece of the workflow you're just talking about :
export from LR to a folder, automatically import to iPhoto. This workflow is also taking care of avoiding duplicates in case you re-edit a photo that was already exported, etc...
The workflow is currently written for iPhoto and need to be adapted for Photo app.
A few bugs were existing but it was a good start.
Please feel free to have a look at it if you have time & skills. Any improvement welcomed!
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Jan 16, 2016 12:39 PM in response to webjamesby ELO109,Right, after a couple of hours mucking around, I think I've worked out this out... (this is for iPhone - I can't speak for Android!)
The answer lies with Lightroom CC Mobile.
I'll try and be as succinct as I can be but please ask any questions you like.
1. Firstly you must subscribe to the CC package but to always have the most up to date version of LR and PS for only £8 a month is frankly very worth it. And with it comes LR CC Mobile.
2. LR Mobile only syncs with one catalog at a time in LR. As a professional photographer, I start a new catalog at the start of every calendar year anyway - not only does this keep things small but also fast. It also means if I lose a catalog, I'm only losing one year's worth of photography - not everything I've ever done! So, for LR Mobile to work, I've created a separate catalog on my computer, and I've put it (unlike the others) into Dropbox so it syncs across my various laptops and desktops (although you don't have to do this!). I've called it 'Overarching iPhone Images'. This also useful as my iPhone photos span back over 8 years and I like to have them separate from my DSLR shots in LR so it all works neatly and I don't get muddled.
3. Download the LR iPhone app to your phone and log in using your Adobe login. In the settings, switch ON the 'Auto Add Photos' option. Then in the app, select 'Add Photos' and add a few images from your native IOS Camera Roll as a tester. Into a folder called LR Photos on your phone, those photos should now appear.
4. On your computer, open LR in the new catalog you've just created for your iPhone photos. Scroll over your name in the Identify Plate and a little down arrow appears. Click on that and the first open is 'Sync with LR mobile' - switch it on... Hopefully, depending on your internet connection, the couple of photos you selected will sync automatically into your new iPhone catalog allowing you to then use LR in the normal fashion on your iPhone shots.
5. Because you switched on 'Auto Sync' every photo that now appears in your camera roll will then end up on your computer (including ones from WhatsApp) - BUT ONLY AS LONG AS THE LR APP IS OPEN ON YOUR PHONE!!! However, it will not sync everything historic. You have to do that manually by 'Selecting All' in the app and then adding it to the catalog... Mine is currently uploading 13,000 photos!!!
6. I've also downloaded the app onto my iPad and it's even better there. However, I've not yet worked out the implications of how much space this is all going to take up so keep an eye on that. However, THANK YOU ADOBE!! You have saved me untold pain and a real sticking point... All my iPhone images will automatically sync into LR on my computer and, even better than that, in a different catalog so it's all nice and tidy!!
7. Working in reverse (and I've not tested this yet) to get photos from LR on your computer to your phone, I suspect that you could export the folder of finished shots from one catalog, import it into the iPhone catalog and the sync process will just automatically happen. Further to that, I suspect (but not tried) that you'll then be able to save to your Camera Roll, and thus back into iCloud and across your devices... That might be a bit long winded but it would certainly avoid having to find a plugin to save directly from LR to your Camera Roll... Just a thought.
Anyway, I think that's it. Good luck and if I hit a road bump I'll come back and let you know... Any DM questions, do email me - enquiries(at)elloydowen(dot)com and I'll try and help you.
Cheers - Ed
www.elloydowen.com
Chelsea // London
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Jan 16, 2016 3:31 PM in response to ELO109by Terence Devlin,How does that answer the question:
Has anyone figured out a way of using Photos for the iCloud integration and Lightroom for the editing and post processing?
You're not using Photos or iCloud at all?
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Apr 10, 2016 11:13 PM in response to Terence Devlinby mykeman,I've been looking for a solution to this for a while.
The closest I've gotten is keeping my photo library in Lightroom, and using Google Photos to keep a backup copy that auto uploads from my Lightroom folder.
While this isn't using iCloud at all, it does allow me to have all my photos easily accessible on my iPhone or iPad through the Google Photos app.
On the downside it doesn't help for Apple TV users, and only uploads edits once they've been exported.