

Also, you can’t currently use star ratings or apply keywords or other metadata. Lightroom Mobile doesn’t sync raw files to your iPad it syncs Smart Previews which is a very good thing because Smart Previews use less storage space on your iPad and take less time to sync images over the Internet while still enabling raw edits.Īt this time, Lightroom Mobile is not set up to import raw images directly from a camera to an iPad, even though that’s what many would expect. The ability to edit at the raw stage sets Lightroom Mobile apart from most iPad image editors. The initial release of Lightroom Mobile works best as a way to let you use an iPad to apply Pick/Reject flags and make basic edits to images synced over the Internet from a collection in Lightroom 5.4 or later on your computer. I’m writing an article about those, but until that gets done here’s a brief overview. The feature list has been publicized widely, but digging a little deeper reveals certain benefits and limitations of the real world Lightroom Mobile workflow. Stealing the show from the Lightroom 5.4 and Camera Raw 8.4 updates is the introduction of Lightroom Mobile. The only new feature in Lightroom 5.4 is support for syncing with Lightroom Mobile. I talk about the new features in Camera Raw 8.4 below. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 ReadMe file.Adobe Camera Raw 8.4/DNG Converter 8.4 post at Lightroom Journal.Lightroom 5.4 post at the official Lightroom Journal.As usual, the updates also add more Camera Matching color profiles and Lens Profiles, and fix a number of bugs. The updates also include the usual bug fixes and add support for new cameras including the Fujifilm X-T1, Nikon D4S, and the DJI Phantom for you quadcopter jockeys. All are free updates for current licenses of the software update links are at the end of this article. Adobe recently released a Lightroom companion app for iPad called Lightroom Mobile, along with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 and Adobe Camera Raw 8.4 (now 8.4.1) and a corresponding DNG Converter 8.4 update.
