Apple Photo with Affinity

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I am wondering how people cope with storage with this combo since apple photo use device storage and cloud. If I had CC I can delete of device and still be in CC preview and cloud not sure if this correct way of saying

I love get a new iPad Pro it be 64 GB if I go 12.9 route
 
Not exactly sure what you're asking but an Apple device will automatically store photos in the cloud for you and you can set it to automatically free up space on your device by deleting local files when you have too many.

The challenge with an iPad only solution is that you will want to be importing raw files and the only way to do this is through Photos so you end up importing a lot of raws, you then edit those you want and then you need to delete all the raw files. The way around it is to only import the ones you want but that isn't most peoples normal workflow (on a proper computer).

That said, iPads are very good and Photos is pretty good too nowadays so it is a viable route, however 64gb is no way near enough storage space if you're going to use it as for Photos, of that 64gb you'll only be able to use 40 or so of them for photos which isn't that much (wouldn't last some people one session, and definitely not a holiday) and if you are using Affinity that generates huge .TIFF files you will very very quickly run out of space. And, of course, if you rely on the cloud then you need a very good internet connection, which you probably have at home but can't guaranty any where else.
 
Hmmm what I mean is if I went CC route instead once import to CC it goes to CC cloud I can delete from photo.

Not too sure if this going to work for me then. Maybe 256gb
 
CC? Lightroom CC? the title says Affinity?

But anyway, you cant import directly to LR CC, you have to import from Camera to Photos, then import from Photos to LR, Edit in LR and then export back to Photos (if you want them in Photos). Photos and LR do not sync.

It's a bit of a pain really as you end up having two cloud solutions, Apple and Adobe, although you could view that as double backup.
 
It all seems like a faff lol might as well stick with my MBP but I like the pen idea.

So what the best solution then I guess the title. Photo and affinity.

I’ve never been able to organise photo in photo very well not as good as CC
 
Not sure whether by CC you mean Lightroom CC, however I have a 1st gen 12.9” iPad and 27”imac anc i do 90% of my editing on the iPad, normally when i am on my travels and it works really well. My workflow is as follows,

1) Create collection in LR CC (on iPad) and eat to auto-import
2) Import photos into Apple Photos (Temp Album), these will automatically import into LR. Once these are in LR, delete from Photos
3) Edit Photos in LR and rate
4) Transfer finished edits into my final collection in CC and Export back to final Photos Album.

Whilst this is going on, in the background the photos are uploading into the Adobe Cloud and back to my imac at home which is set to store the photos by date. The LR Collections are also on the Mac. The finished photos are on all my apple devices for sharing (iphone, iPad, mac)

Very simple and takes up very little storage as once everything is upload to the cloud, you can clear the cache on the iPad.
 
You say when you finish you export back to photo so you put the finish work in photo aswell as leaving in CC? I guess you delete the raw after too?

Would you say 64 gb be too small?
 
ChrisHeathcote said:
Not sure whether by CC you mean Lightroom CC, however I have a 1st gen 12.9” iPad and 27”imac anc i do 90% of my editing on the iPad, normally when i am on my travels and it works really well. My workflow is as follows,

1) Create collection in LR CC (on iPad) and eat to auto-import
2) Import photos into Apple Photos (Temp Album), these will automatically import into LR. Once these are in LR, delete from Photos
3) Edit Photos in LR and rate
4) Transfer finished edits into my final collection in CC and Export back to final Photos Album.

Whilst this is going on, in the background the photos are uploading into the Adobe Cloud and back to my imac at home which is set to store the photos by date. The LR Collections are also on the Mac. The finished photos are on all my apple devices for sharing (iphone, iPad, mac)

Very simple and takes up very little storage as once everything is upload to the cloud, you can clear the cache on the iPad.
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This is basically what I do, except I haven’t been smart enough to import into a temp folder and then delete. I also export to my “iCloud photos” folder as I’m a bit old fashioned and like a folder structure for my backup rather than the Photos library. I do also import the album to Photos so I can show and share etc.

For me 64GB is definitely not enough, last time I was travelling was through Patagonia and each daily import was, as a guess 20-30GB and there’s no such thing as fast internet in Patagonia. I have a 512GB 10.5”.
 
Think I go the 11 inch route with a pencil as I’ve a MacBook Pro too
 
rookies said:
It all seems like a faff lol might as well stick with my MBP but I like the pen idea.

So what the best solution then I guess the title. Photo and affinity.

I’ve never been able to organise photo in photo very well not as good as CC
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well it does most of it for you re dates.then all you have to do is make albums and slide shows,really easy to do
 
I currently use Affinity Photo on a 12.9 Pro with 512gb, works just great.
 
Will 11” be ok or best go 12.9
 
I find the 10.5 big enough (just, the 9.7 wasn't) so the 11" should be fine.
 
Nawty said:
I find the 10.5 big enough (just, the 9.7 wasn't) so the 11" should be fine.
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I could get the 11" and if I find I need next one up Ive got till Jan to change so a nice time to try it out..
 
Ive just been reading through the forums on DPReview and somebody has mentioned that the 11” iPad crops the images to fit the screen, in the same way as the 10.5” did. Personally i have never used either the 10.5” or 11” iPads, but thought it might be worth mentioning and looking into before diving in
 
ChrisHeathcote said:
Ive just been reading through the forums on DPReview and somebody has mentioned that the 11” iPad crops the images to fit the screen, in the same way as the 10.5” did. Personally i have never used either the 10.5” or 11” iPads, but thought it might be worth mentioning and looking into before diving in
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And it doesn’t crop on the 12.9?
 
Don’t think air 2 crop?
 
Trying find a side by side with this crop to understand
 
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