Comments on: What Do You Want In An iPad Photo Management App?

By: Vincent van den Berg

Vincent van den Berg — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:52:33 +0000

I would love to see a lightroom or apple aperture app for the ipad. The standard ipad photo viewing software is not at all functional.

Can you imagine a ipad 3g with lightroom’s functionality + a built-in online photo boutique!!!!!

A roaming photographer could shoot, download to the ipad, edit and display to clients via a slideshow. The clients could then select images that they would like to purchase, download the files, order prints, mugs, photo books, share with social media and pay with a credit card from anywhere with a 3g connection!!!

Woow that would be incredible. A complete mobile photo business with only a camera and a ipad.

Great stuff. Let me know if you will develop this. I would chip in.

By: ronankeathing

ronankeathing — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:30:06 +0000

As per my experience Sortshot application for iPad is really amazing!!!! In this application we can add tags and tagging options also include personalized keywords, ratings, favorites, or type of media – photo or video. Tapping on a tag provides instant results so that we can further refine our search with additional tags and keywords.

By: Richard Bakker

Richard Bakker — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 10:41:37 +0000

I just tried airdisplay for mac/ipad to use the ipad as 2nd screen, this is quite cool and ipad can be used to show the preview a shot in LR. I hoped that I could set the development module on my ipad and my main screen as preview window.

What would be fantastic:

Use the iPad as a fullscreen controller for the LR development module.
ie. another kind of interface (touch-based) to make precise development adjustments only, which could work with eg. color wheels in stead of sliders.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:35:00 +0000

No need for photo editing initially as loads of apps do that fairly well already. Photo tagging and folder mgmt and deleting/hiding pix are features that are completely missing from the app store. Would pay $5-10 range.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:25:43 +0000

I would love to have the ability to make a slideshow in Lightroom 3.0 and then show it on my iPad, music and all.

By: Fred Kuhl

Fred Kuhl — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:33:42 +0000

Frode matches my thoughts exactly: I’d like the Library module on the iPad, and do the editing on my laptop, whose display is at least somewhat calibrated. The iPad is a mobile device, so use its mobile strengths: import and organize photos that can incorporated in my main catalog later. Also, use the iPad as a display device both for pictures imported from the camera, and for pictures in my main catalog.

By: Muhammad

Muhammad — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:02:19 +0000

I agree getting a basic idea of saleable functionality before development begins is awesome and a trend that I hope takes foothold. Then companies can compete on who can bring all the functions together the best. What would be even better is if it was all opensource so that it could come together faster.

I would like to be able to have a native sync function Where the file names sync over. Now this is a very important function. The Ipad allows you to leave your 10lbs laptop at home but for sheer workflow bliss the ability to rate or identify which photos your customer pick out and then just be able to export/ sync that order back into lightroom for further processing.

By: Cf

Cf — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:26:11 +0000

Currently use my iPad to cull images. Import raw to LR, export 1500px jpg to folder, Ftp images to JB iPad, pick through and delete trash shots in the photos app, pull the files back off the iPad, batch rename the extension to raw extension, move raw folder to culled folder making sure it does not overwite existing files. It leaves me with raw images that have been culled. You can zoom on the pics to check details on the iPad at this res. I’ll note that scrolling is stuttered with the number of images I cull ( approximate 2000 per event). But still very usable. A great solution until We see light room or aperture on the iPad….which might be a while.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:18:32 +0000

Option 2 along with the ability to flag photos would what I would use most in my business. Also the ability to group all vert & horiz photos to display together is a must. Rotating the ipad back and forth is very annoying to a client, grouping horiz & vert images in serperate folders also seems a bit unprofessional to a client.

I can not see the need to process an image for any professional phtog as you are dealing with an uncalibrated display on the ipad.

By: ithank

ithank — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:40:44 +0000

Dropbox.

By: Jerry Ross

Jerry Ross — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:06:44 +0000

Tethered shooting with just jpg download, leaving RAW on the camera. the ability to show clients a web gallery, movie, slideshow or the like from Lightroom would be great as well.

Essentially I would like an iPad to replace my laptop for client presentations and on-location shoots.

By: Sue S Puetz

Sue S Puetz — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:20:55 +0000

Simply put, I would like to upload photos from my camera to my iPad, then from my iPad to a secondary backup storage device.
I want to use the iPad as a backup for my photos while on a 5-day photo shoot traveling. It can do that. But I also want to upload these same photos daily (100′s /day) from my iPad to iDisk/MobileMe. It can do that but only 1 photo at a time. OR I want to upload these same photos from my iPad to another private secure online site for a secondary backup. It can’t do that. OR I would like to download these same photos from my iPad to a flash card. It can’t do that either.
Oh yeah. iPad should also allow re-ordering photos in an album. Currently photos are sorted by date – no other option.

By: Trey e

Trey e — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:02:49 +0000

Hi Terry.

I gave photo fx ultra a try today. Very nice app. After playing with it for a couple of hours I came up with a list of things I would like to have in a lr app.

1. Autosave!
2. Rotate / Straighten / crop
3. Clone and healing / retouch tools. To get rid of large blemishes.
3b. Skin smoothened slider.
4. Flag / keywords / rate
5. Watermark import and basic text. Maybe sync to light room 3.
6. Integration of photo fx ultra or offer presets similar to the program.
7. Interactive slideshow(manual and auto options) creation. Would like to be able to have gesture swiping. For ex. If I swipe at an angle the piture would come in at an angle. If i pinch in i would get a zoom transition. and maybe double tap to trigger a transition like dissolve or ripple. How about using two fingers swipes to bring in 2 pictures side by side!!
7b. iPhone integration would be nice too. I would like to use my iPhone to control the presentation or can be used to edit in full screen. Maybe?

By: Sulka Haro

Sulka Haro — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:10:06 +0000

The one feature I want from the iPad version is a killer implementation of meta-data editing. I’m certain the multi-touch interface is perfect for organizing information, and I have a collection of 96500 images in my primary Lightroom catalog that can always use more organization. The current keywording interface in LR is just inadequate for organizing larger collections…

By: Chuck Thompson

Chuck Thompson — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:28:21 +0000

I am a sports photographer. I bought ipads to show and sell with them. The lack of file numbers are making them too time consuming.

This is what I would like to do:

1. Wireless transmit to ipads. We have Canon transmitters.
2. View photos with the camera image numbers
3. Print these photos wireless back to my trailers printers
4. Process the order and charge there cc.