Sure enough, after checking on my iPad, my images were synced over the air and were available for editing. To my surprise, the amount of consumed space on my Adobe account didn’t change much even after enabling album syncing with Lightroom CC. After the upgrade process completed, I went ahead and imported a few hundred RAW images into Lightroom Classic on my iMac. The upgrade process is simple and takes a few minutes. Bummer.Īfter much consideration, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my current photography plan from 20 GB to the 1 TB storage tier for a few more bucks per month. But I had less than one gigabyte left in my account. The alternative is to do the importation on Lightroom Classic on my iMac and then let the sync process bring them to other devices including my iPad (by enabling “Sync with Lightroom” option on the album level). But for now, importing them directly from my Nikon D750 camera is not an option as iPadOS 13 isn’t yet supported by Lightroom CC. Why? Because of the simple fact that Lightroom CC is much faster on the iPad than Lightroom Classic is on my iMac and by a wide margin. I started to contemplate the idea of doing more RAW photo editing on my iPad this time. Doing more on the iPadĪs I was returning from my trip to Hawaii, I started to wonder about how I would process my RAW images. Lightroom CC is a real cloud-based photo editing solution.

This is why you can hit in your favourite browser and start editing your images from there too. Also, editing a lower resolution version of the files is also faster. What is actually synced across devices is a lower resolution version of the image called smart previews.

When I use my iPhone to take pictures with Lightroom CC, original images are stored to the cloud.

I wasn’t too much in a hurry to fix this as I was at the end of my summer vacations.įirst, consider how Adobe Lightroom CC (the cloud-based version of Lightroom) works in regards to storing images on your computer and in Adobe’s cloud. I thought about this solution for a while. For me, as I use my iMac, my iPad and my iPhone, this wasn’t an option. A lack of space can have a bad consequence of stopping images synchronization across devices. Recently while I was using Lightroom, I got a notification warning me that I was running short of space on my Adobe Creative Cloud account. Thinking of upgrading your Adobe photography plan to increase cloud storage space? Please read this before.

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