Imagine having your entire Lightroom Catalog available for browsing and search wherever you are. You whip out your phone, search for that photo in your Lightroom Catalog, and add your current GPS coordinates to the metadata with one tap. Imagine you find yourself standing at a spot where you’d once taken a great shot. Imagine standing in line at the DMV and using that time to add keywords to your photos from yesterday’s shoot, rather than playing Angry Birds. I just want to do what I never seem to have enough time to do at home: housekeeping. I don’t want to adjust exposure and color temperature. What I want from a mobile Lightroom companion is a way to utilize whatever idle time I might have here and there for productive work on my main Lightroom Catalog. I don’t want to send new photos to it. How many 5D Mark III shots can I really import into my 64GB iPad? How fast will that process be? Whatever the efficiencies of organizing on-the-go might be, they seem more than obviated by the exponential increase in speed and efficiency I’ll have at home on my optimized system. I don’t feel a huge need to tweak develop settings on an iPhone screen, or do a bunch of metadata work in a cafe somewhere as a prelude to proper importing. The work I do with Lightroom on my 27” display, at my comfortable desk, a cup of something delicious at my side, leaves little to be desired. I’ve tried most of these apps, and while each of them seems logical and desirable on the surface, in actual use, none of them turn out to be what I actually want from a tablet-based augmentation of my already awesome Lightroom experience. LRPAD turns your iPad into a touch-based control surface for Lightroom’s Develop module, and Photosmith acts as an in-the-field pre-processing companion to Lightroom, allowing you to begin sorting, tagging, and rating photos even before adding them to your Catalog back home. Third-party Lightroom users have also tried to bolster their own photo management experience by creating companion mobile apps. They’ve released Photoshop Touch for iPad, as well as Revel (formerly Carousel), which is like a cloud-based Lightroom-light that syncs across mobile and desktop platforms. It's not as seamless as it is for iOS users, and we don't yet know when that will be rectified, but there is at least a workaround.I get the sense that Adobe is thinking a lot about tablets and Photography. Fear not, though, because Revel is also available as a web app, so you can access your images from your Android smart device via its web browser. Sadly, a full version of Revel has not yet landed for Android devices, where only a preliminary Revel Importer app is available. Of course, you could edit on the phone in the first place, but smartphone editing apps are rather limited compared to their desktop equivalents, so there's a definite advantage in being able to get to your images no matter where you are. Finish the edit and your tweaked copy wings its way back to the phone again. Want to transfer a new photo from your iPhone to the computer? Import it from your Camera Roll, or choose the Take a New Photo option in Revel, and it appears on your computer for editing. Simply drag and drop an image from another folder to a mobile album, and it will appear on your smart device. Sign into Revel on your smart device, and these same albums are listed. Sign into your Adobe account in Elements Organizer, and you'll find a new mobile albums section in the albums and folders view at left.
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