Q: Using Adobe Lightroom with OSX Photos

Which is another example of choosing one app over the other as there is no sensible way to use both. Works for you, good.

Hey Ed,

Thanks so much for your write up. You inspired me with a solution that solves an issue I was having.

I was looking for a relatively easy way to take my edited photos from lightroom and get them into my icloud so that I could display them on my AppleTV.  It seems that you've automated the task a bit more than I needed, so I thought I'd summarize where my approach differs from your description in case it helps others.

1) Save edited photos in lightroom to an a folder that's synced with the lightroom mobile app (Ed describes this process in wonderful detail)

2) Open up the album in the lightroom iOS app

3) Manually share the photos from the album with an iCloud album (using the standard "share" option provided by iOS)

That's it. Because I've turned on sharing my iCloud shared albums within the AppleTV settings, these photos show up within the Photos app on my AppleTV.

There is a manual element in that I need to manually share the photos from the ligthroom app into iCloud, but I don't mind that step at all as it's only a few photos each week and gives me a good opportunity to review things before they show up on my TV.

Hope that helps someone else.

Is it just me or lately when I take a raw photo and export it from photos and then do the same from Lightroom the quality of the photo from the photos app is very bad compared to the quality of the JPEG I export from Lightroom, Is there a missing setting on the photos app I am missing or something. If I crop a Raw photo in the photo app and then export it to JPEG it looks like I cropped it 300% when I only cropped like 50%. Please let me know if I am missing something.

Start your own topic and tell us exactly how you are exporting the photo.

Someone did publish these instructions as a work around:

http://www.cultofmac.com/177314/sync-your-lightroom-collections-with-your-ipad-a utomatically-how-to-2/

Essentially, you use a plugin to export (duplicate) to disk and have itunes use that as your photos library.  You'll get a lot but not the events and not the people tagging.  Not the best, but a start.

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/import-iphoto.html

Thanks.  I was having trouble importing the exif, and a lot of times, the dates the photos were created were wrong.

Seems to be working now.  Thanks for making me try it again!