What is going on everybody? It's Mike and welcome back to
Tech 24/7 TV. If you are anything like me your photo
library is probably bursting at the proverbial seams.
Now that's because you have this amazing camera that is
always with you and it enables you to capture all the precious
moments in your life. But then you have the really the not-so-
great moments that clog up your photo library like the photos
are out of focus, screenshots, pictures of your feet, and
let's be honest with ourselves; when is the last time that you
edited a photo or better yet even printed one out?
Well that all changes today because in today's video I'm
going to show you how to move photos that are stored locally
on your iPhone, on a camera or even on an external hard drive
onto your iPad so that you can edit the photos in your app of
choice.
Let's get started.
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Each workflows will be time stamps right below the LIKE
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The first workflows is for those of you are out there
using your iPhone to capture photos and you're not using
iCloud Photo Sync or iCloud library to get your images
synced between the devices.
The second workflow if you have a camera like an SLR or
mirrorless camera that has an SD card or any type of
removable media and the third workflow is if you have photos
that are already stored on external media like an SSD or a
flash drive.
This workflow is relevant for those who are out there that do
not backup their photos using iCloud Drive or Creative Cloud
and the images you want to edit do not already exist on your
iPad.
Open up your photo library and identify the photos that you
want to go and edit on your iPad. I use Apple photos and I
want to edit the images using Adobe Lightroom because I find
Lightroom to be more powerful.
Let's go ahead and push select in the top right hand corner of
the photos app and now we have the option to go and select
photos individually. Here you can choose the individual
images by selecting one at a time tapping on the individual
photos themselves.
Or you can tap and hold on the first photo while dragging down
the slick the multiple images. Once all the photos
are selected, I'm going to tap on the SHARE SHEET here in the
bottom right hand corner.
I'm going to choose to save the photos to the album first
because I can quickly locate the album itself and then
delete the originals after I've made my edits without creating
a duplicate set of pictures
when I finish editing.
Next, tap "Save to Album." You can AirDrop the photos from
your iPhone to your iPad, but the problem is that those
images will open up directly in the photos app on your iPad and
then you're going to need to export them once again to
Lightroom.
For me, I want to avoid any rework if possible. First, I'm
going to save the photos to my iPhone's internal storage.
I'm going to do that by selecting the option titled
"Save to files". I'm going to create a new folder and name it
"PHOTO EDITS"
and then I'm a name another new folder in there and give it
today's date
And then add SELECTS. selects which is really just a way of
you giving a visual cue to yourself that these are the
photos that you've selected for editing.
Again the date and name folder combination to me signals that
it's going to go to be a folder that's great on today's date
and the folder contains a broad set of photos that I've
selected making cleanup easier once all the edits are
complete.
Now let's exit the photos app on your iPhone and open up the
files app. tap on the iPhone from the left hand navigation
menu.
Now you should see the folder that you've just created
titled PHOTO EDITS.
And here's a protip for you: You can make any folder a
favorite by long pressing on the folder name and then
choosing FAVORITE from the contextual menu. This make the
folder appear in the left hand side bar of the files app under
the favorite section.
Now with our iPhone in hand let's go to long press on the
folder and we're going to go to share and from there we're
gonna go and click on AirDrop.
On your iPad you're going to get a prompt here where you
want to go and see if the files.
Now in the File Picker menu, let's go ahead and choose "ON
YOUR iPad" and then save it to an appropriately named folder.
I would actually duplicate the same folder name here on your
iPad.
Let's move on to the second workflow. Now in this
workflow we're going to take the images that are stored on
your traditional SD card found in an SLR camera,
mirrorless camera, GoPro etc and get them in your iPad so
you can go edit them.
Now there are a few prerequisites: One you got to
make sure you have your SD card with you and there's gonna be
photos on there, I mean that makes sense.
Second, we want to make sure that we have a lightning or
USB-C to SD card reader that is available to go ahead and plug
it into your iPad.
Now if you don't have one of those, I'll leave a link in
the description below for two different versions and three,
you want to make sure that your app is running the latest
version of my iPadOS.
Let's start by opening the files app on your iPad and then
insert your SD card into the card reader.
You'll see your SD card appear in the left hand navigation in
just a few seconds then go ahead and select that.
From there, I want to go ahead navigate to where your images
are saved.
Now once you go out and navigate the folder, you should
start to see your photos appearing in just a few moments
how that's gonna depend on "1" the number of images iPadOS
needs to load "2" the size of each of those images "3" This
maximum speed of your card and "4" the maximum speed of your
card reader.
Now it really shouldn't take that long, maybe say a minute
or two if you have a lot of photos. But again this is just
going to be the previews.
The first view you see here is going to be the LIST view which
is gonna be a listing of all the images that you have there
and that can also include the date that the file was created
or modified and the size of the file.
Now the next view to the right is going to be the column view
and it contains a lot of additional data here especially
in the context of photos. But this is going to be one of my
favorite views.
The final view which is gonna be the one that you switch
between is gonna be the icon view which gives you the
preview of your file.
It's a great time to check critical focus so that you can
eliminate any chance of importing unnecessary photos
really want to just you know they look good on the little
display in your camera but they don't actually look good when
you blow them up.
So this is gonna be that opportunity. So now it's very
simple just go and tap on the image really pinch zoom and you
see how whether or not you're in critical focus.
If you're wondering to yourself why does this guy have so many
pictures of the iPads, these are thumbnails, or thumbnail
candidate at least four images I was using for a bridge Pro
Plus video.
Now that we've checked critical focus you're ready to import
the photos into your local iPad storage.
If this is the first time you're moving or copying images
from like an SD card or an external storage into your
iPad's internal storage. Here are a few things to keep in
mind.
First iPadOS is not going to give you an overall progress
meter but instead it will indicate the individual file
progress as the files are getting copied over.
Now that's OK if you're working with a small number of files .
I personally would prefer to stick with smaller batches if
only to having greater visibility into that progress.
Second you can two finger drag across the images to select
multiple files whether you're in tile list or column view.
Okay here is a second pro tip for you. You can use the
contextual menus in iPadOS to select and copy the files from
an SD card or external storage to your iPad's local storage,
but that's a little too time consuming for me.
It is without a doubt easier to open up a second files window
to drag and drop the files over into the new pane
To do that first, start by bringing up the iPod dock by
swiping up from the bottom. Then go ahead and long press on
the files you have to bring up the contextual menu and then
drag that window up to the right hand side of the screen
here.
You have two windows that are open side by side: the window
on the left shows you where you were just working on with all
those images file and the window on the right is going to
open up to the same content in just a few seconds
While working inside the window on the right, let's go and
navigate to on my iPad. Let's long press on the display and
choose NEW FOLDER.
Let's create a new folder titled FAVES (or selects) and
then let's drag the photos over that you want to copy and
voila. That is it. Now the images start to copy over. Now
you can see here like I mentioned before iPadOS does is
not displaying the overall progress of copying the images
over but it is showing the progress per image. Workflow
Number three is probably the most straightforward workflow
because it is almost identical to importing photos from your
SD card with the following caveats.
Anytime that you are connecting an external source device to
your iPad it is certain that that external storage device
requires power to operate.
I know that goes without saying but you got to think of it this
way. In the case of an SD card that power draws can be
extremely low meaning that it can and will consume your iPad
battery over a long period of time.
You want to go ahead and connect an external SSD or even
an external hard disk drive, you know a regular platter
drive that power draws is quite moderate.
And I would highly suggest disconnecting the drive from
your iPad after you finish importing your photos.
Otherwise you're going to come to an dead iPad battery in a
matter of few hours that same exact thought process is going
to apply if you're connecting your iPad to a USB-C hub like
this one that I have here from hyperdrive.
That is because the USB-C hub requires power to communicate
back and forth with iPadOS which is going to cause battery
drain as well.
So do not leave external SSD hard disk drives or USB C hubs
connected to your iPad for extended periods of time
otherwise you're going to find yourself with a dead battery.
Last but certainly not least you don't need to worry about
gently disconnecting the drive from your iPad because the
paradigm where you had to eject the media from your iPad first
does not exist on
iPadOS so you could simply unplug the media interface from
your iPad at any time and not worry about damaging your data.
Now that those photos are stored on her iPad, let's go
ahead and import them into Lightroom.
To import the photos, I'm going to click in the bottom right
hand corner.
I'm going to click on this button here and go ahead and
choose to add photos to Lightroom library from files.
Now once I go in and click from files, it brings up the
file picker menu.
The file picker menu will actually allow me to navigate
to the stored location whether it's either on my iPad on an
external media or even SD card and choose which files I want to
copy over.
I'm going tap SELECT in the top right hand corner then SELECT
ALL and I'm going to import all these photos into my
Lightroom library.
It will take about a moment or two depending on how my photos
that you're importing and the size of the photos, so there's
a couple different variables here but it'll be relatively
quick.
Like I said the beginning this should be agnostic of any type
that that you're trying to use here.
I'm using Lightroom as my app of choice choice but it really
shouldn't matter what app you decide to go and use.
Let me know in the comments below if you want to see a
workflows video covering workflows of editing photos in
a specific app.
For my edit I'm going to work on this iPhone SE photo which I
absolutely love becuase of the color. I'm going to add this
now you could see here the photo is a little bit on the
dark side here.
For me I like to use presets as a starting point. Now the
presets shown here see here are not mine.
I actually bought these presets from Peter McKinnon so and I'll
leave the link to them if you're interested but there is
presets not mine.
The presets in my opinion I think function as a good
starting point for how you want your image to look. I think
these presets most closely match my personal style. And
again I use them as a starting point and then from there I
would go ahead and change what is necessary in order to make
that picture really stand out and make it be representative
of my own style.
So maybe I'd change the exposure or choose contrast.
I go into color temperature and change that and again just
making it my own making a little bit more vibrant as I'd
like to think because here this photo you know the phone is so
red. The background is so green the water is blue and it's just
it's just so warm here
I'm going to edit the aspect ratio for Instagram because
that's where I like to post my pictures and in case you're not
following me I'll leave that link down below.
Once I'm done editing that photo I would go ahead and save
that photo. Back to the library. So here we see here
the original photo that I took. I bet near the top we're going
to find the original or edited photo.
so there you have it folks. My complete workflow for editing
photos on the iPad.
Everything from ingesting or importing photos from
your iPhone, from an SD card, from external media device,
including a taste of how I edit photos.
Now let me know in the comments below if you want to see a
video on how to edit in a certain app any other ideas
that you have for a workflow videos.
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