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Apple Photos (with addition of apps such as Affinity) would be the closest perhaps to offering an alternative to Lightroom with its Cloud syncing...

(Not suggesting Photos is a competitor to Lightroom in terms of capabilities)
 
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Eloise said:
Apple Photos (with addition of apps such as Affinity) would be the closest perhaps to offering an alternative to Lightroom with its Cloud syncing...

(Not suggesting Photos is a competitor to Lightroom in terms of capabilities)
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Two different target markets in my opinion. Photos and affinity mobile will be more than sufficient for anybody taking snaps on their phones and want basic editing.

Lightroom is for the amateur / pro who takes editing a bit more seriously.

I’m in the amateur camp and use lr / ps extensively, but the mobile abilities are features I never use. You just don’t have the same control as editing on a desktop. I can see the benefits for people on the move for adding keywords, culling etc
 
ecoleman said:
Two different target markets in my opinion. Photos and affinity mobile will be more than sufficient for anybody taking snaps on their phones and want basic editing. Lightroom is for the amateur / pro who takes editing a bit more seriously.
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No disagreement on the capabilities (though I understand Affinity is quite a match for Photoshop in many areas) ... I was only suggesting it as the alternative for mobile syncing which was commented on above and alternatives for Lightroom (which personally I think if not expensive at ~£10pm for Lightroom and Photoshop). It was just following up on a few earlier comments in the thread.

I’m in the amateur camp and use lr / ps extensively, but the mobile abilities are features I never use. You just don’t have the same control as editing on a desktop. I can see the benefits for people on the move for adding keywords, culling etc
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I think you might be surprised by the mobile editing ... especially with an iPad Pro and Pencil(TM). But each to their own of course.
 
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You just don’t have the same control as editing on a desktop. I can see the benefits for people on the move for adding keywords, culling etc
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With the latest version of LRM, I would question this, although I guess it depends on what you are using it on. I use an iPad Pro along with the Pencil and do 90% of my editing on that. The other 10% is onto Mac but using Astropad to mirror the screen to my tablet. This creates like a mini Cintiq set-up. As to Keywords, this is one element that is missing from LRM, although it works really well for culling :)
 
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ecoleman said:
Two different target markets in my opinion. Photos and affinity mobile will be more than sufficient for anybody taking snaps on their phones and want basic editing.

Lightroom is for the amateur / pro who takes editing a bit more seriously.

I’m in the amateur camp and use lr / ps extensively, but the mobile abilities are features I never use. You just don’t have the same control as editing on a desktop. I can see the benefits for people on the move for adding keywords, culling etc
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I'm primarily mobile now, with Apple Photos and Snapseed for editing. You can't do everything in Snapseed that you can do in desktop Lightroom, but it's pretty darn close.
The stuff that Snapseed does do is generally superior and easier to use than doing it in Lightroom. The stacks system for different layers of edits is (for me) very intuitive to use.
 
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