When you first connect an SD card to an iPhone or iPad, the OS will prompt you for permission to connect to an ‘external camera.’ After granting permission, a ‘Device Connected’ popup opens regardless of where you are in Lightroom’s UI, alerting you to the connection. When you tap on the app’s import button in the lower right-hand corner of the screen, you’ll see a new option called ‘From Camera Device.’ If nothing is plugged in, the choice is grayed out.Ĭonnecting an SD Card to Lightroom for the first time. Lightroom 5.1 fixes this by integrating SD card import functionality directly into the app that works effectively the same as importing into Photos. If I didn’t clean up the originals immediately, I’d forget which were already in Lightroom and hesitate at deleting anything, which meant the mess would never be resolved. As a result, I’d end up with duplicate, unedited images in Photos or Files and on my SD card, too, if I added pictures to Files from the card’s file provider. That’s because Lightroom would copy the image upon import, leaving you to go back and clean up the original files, something which I wasn’t very good about doing. Because Photos or Files had to act as an intermediary, it was easy to end up with multiple sets of the same images: an edited collection in Lightroom, an unedited set in Photos or Files, and depending on your workflow, another unedited set on your SD card. However, until now, the process has required the Photos app, or more recently, the Files app’s file provider functionality. IOS has supported the ability to import images from SD cards for a long time.
I’ve been using the beta of Lightroom 5.1 for the past couple of weeks, and the update has worked exceptionally well, reducing the friction of getting images into the app and adding flexibility to getting them back out again.ĭirect Image Import from SD and microSD Cards The company has added new options when exporting your photos too. As promised this fall, Adobe has updated Lightroom for iPad and Lightroom Photo Editor for the iPhone with the ability to import image files from SD cards directly inside the app.
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