Workflow with iCloud and post-processing software?
How do you all manage your workflow of post-processing combined with iCloud storage? Do you use iCloud to store only your originals, or only your edited photos, or maybe both?
My first thought is that I'd like to use iCloud to store all of our edited photos, then I can maintain a backup of our originals somewhere else. That way, the edited photos are easily viewable anywhere we like. But I'm not sure how this will work in practice.
At the moment I use Lightroom and Photoshop, but this may change in the future. For minor edits, I guess I can use the Photos app, that way both the original and the edited photos remain on iCloud, but with an edit history so that there aren't 2 photos visible in the library. I also have a MFT camera which I use regularly.
So something like this:
- Take photos on our iDevices and other cameras.
- Make small edits directly on Photos app.
- For bigger editing jobs, download the originals, import into Lightroom/whatever, and export edited photos.
- Upload edited photos to iCloud, and delete the originals from iCloud.
- Back up all original photos from the Mac.
Honestly I'm a bit confused about the best way to do this. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!
