Work flow - IPad/mobile devices. How do you handle it?

[Andrew Moore]

I was looking over the last few threads on CC, Lightroom, Affinity etc and I noticed no real trend in the way people actually work. This naturally made me curious as to how the majority of us actually go about editing.



As you can see from the above, my work flow tends to lean towards a whole bunch of programs starting with an unseen entity, MS OneDrive.

I transfer images from SD card to a dongle on my iPad into my one drive and from there I sync a one drive folder with LR, PS, Affinity and occasionaly PS Mix. Ive had problems reading RAW files, problems syncing saved files, problems working with layers and problems with grading on an iPad screen (especially since it changes the backlight in IOS11 as it seems fit which was a pain to fix!) but now it seems to all be up and running as I would hope.

No one program is as good as Lightroom or photoshop for desktop but combined I would say that with Affinity we are 99% there.

It’s now time to ditch the laptop when on the move, on holiday etc and save only the most intensive images and video for the main PC when I am home.

I am not a professional tog, Ive never been paid and I would never look to so the compromises I have made in my opinion are easily justified. I’m just curious as to whether or not any pros on here have been able to move to a truly mobile and easy to travel with solution as I have and if this solution resembles their own.

So...

How do you work on the move, what programs work for you and if you don’t work/cant work on the move, what processes do you find hold you back and how would you like to see advancements take over.

 

[Furtim]

Lightroom mobile for me for the most part, if it had spot heal in there, then it would be better. I have affinity, but can’t get to grips with it. At the moment I spot fix in Photoshop Fix on iPad and throw away the image after and redo on the PC in Lightroom if I can be bothered when I get home.

 

[Callumz]

Personally I take a small MacBook with me as I find trying to do anything on a tablet to be frustrating - granted I haven’t yet tried the updated apps etc that are available for both iOS and Android.

 

[Andrew Moore]

Lightroom mobile for me for the most part, if it had spot heal in there, then it would be better. I have affinity, but can’t get to grips with it. At the moment I spot fix in Photoshop Fix on iPad and throw away the image after and redo on the PC in Lightroom if I can be bothered when I get home.

Affinity is one of those apps that you feel like you aren’t getting anywhere and then it sort of just clicks! Give it another shot and maybe you won’t need to throw your edits away quite as often!

Personally I take a small MacBook with me as I find trying to do anything on a tablet to be frustrating - granted I haven’t yet tried the updated apps etc that are available for both iOS and Android.

The latest apps on the latest tablets are pretty good now to be honest. The move away from a laptop to something arguably more intuitive and more powerful (due to coding rather than hardware) has been enlightening. The doubts and the stigma of “its just an app” rather than a “program” took some time to get past but I’m glad I’m now there and beyond that thought process. I’ve used a iPad Pro 9.7 and since moved to the 12.9.. I’ll be honest and say that any iPad other than the 12.9 is pointless as the screen realistically just isn’t big enough in my opinion.