Earlier this year I gave up on Lightroom because it was way too slow on my MacBook Pro. After trying loads of different products I settled on Bridge/ACR/CS6 with Nik or Luminar as a plugin, tending more to Nik as performance was better.
Then Affinity launched their iPad product complete with raw raw studio so I decided to give it a go so bought a 10.5' iPad Pro, Apple pencil and Affinity and off I went. Then out come Adobe with the new and somewhat controversial Lightroom CC/Lightroom CC Mobile. After 4 days of the trial period I was sold, with one of the biggest benefits being that the mobile version uses their own raw engine rather than the Apple one and hence they support Fuji compressed raw files.
So, the only drawback is that you need to import via Photos which adds an additional step but the combination of iPad Pro, Pencil and Lightroom is a pleasure to use. From my point of view, it handles 90% of what I want to do with a photograph, so much so that I've not processed an image on my MacBook since I got the iPad a month back. Where there is some additional functionality that I could do with I add in PhotoShop Fix which, as the name suggests, allows you to fix minor issues with photos. And then Photoshop Express for perspective adjustment, colour tweaks, B&W conversion and so on.
The only drawback is that what gets passed between these separate apps is a high quality jpeg. So it's fine for flickr posting but if I wanted to do a large print, I would probably revert to Photoshop etc. on my Mac. I tend not to do that kind of thing though.
As an example, this is an old shot taken at Chester Zoo but processed on my iPad - I added the shots on my MacBook and they synched to Adobe an then my iPad where the processing was done. And all of the processing was done on the train to work...
Female sparrow with lunch by Andy Mulhearn, on Flickr
The Aardvarks were getting their snack of mealworms but the sparrows were quicker off the mark. This cheeky devil was on a branch about six feet away so is a small crop.
Then Affinity launched their iPad product complete with raw raw studio so I decided to give it a go so bought a 10.5' iPad Pro, Apple pencil and Affinity and off I went. Then out come Adobe with the new and somewhat controversial Lightroom CC/Lightroom CC Mobile. After 4 days of the trial period I was sold, with one of the biggest benefits being that the mobile version uses their own raw engine rather than the Apple one and hence they support Fuji compressed raw files.
So, the only drawback is that you need to import via Photos which adds an additional step but the combination of iPad Pro, Pencil and Lightroom is a pleasure to use. From my point of view, it handles 90% of what I want to do with a photograph, so much so that I've not processed an image on my MacBook since I got the iPad a month back. Where there is some additional functionality that I could do with I add in PhotoShop Fix which, as the name suggests, allows you to fix minor issues with photos. And then Photoshop Express for perspective adjustment, colour tweaks, B&W conversion and so on.
The only drawback is that what gets passed between these separate apps is a high quality jpeg. So it's fine for flickr posting but if I wanted to do a large print, I would probably revert to Photoshop etc. on my Mac. I tend not to do that kind of thing though.
As an example, this is an old shot taken at Chester Zoo but processed on my iPad - I added the shots on my MacBook and they synched to Adobe an then my iPad where the processing was done. And all of the processing was done on the train to work...
Female sparrow with lunch by Andy Mulhearn, on Flickr
The Aardvarks were getting their snack of mealworms but the sparrows were quicker off the mark. This cheeky devil was on a branch about six feet away so is a small crop.
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