Lightroom on the iPad is also different from the Photos app.

Or if you do – to use the iPad’s superior browsing and flagging interface – you can sync them at the click of a single check box on the Mac. You probably don’t want hundreds of almost-identical images from a photo shoot clogging up your iPad. This fits in with Lightroom as a pro tool. Any photos taken on your iOS devices are synced back to the mothership, but photos added to your Mac Lightroom library are only synced to iOS if you say so. Right now, Lightroom for iOS offers just a subset of the features found on the desktop – basic editing and organizing tools. Lightroom on the Mac remains the hub for your photosĪdobe wants you to use the right device for the right job. However, once you have done that, your collections are instantly updated between devices whenever you edit photos or move them between collections.

You choose which collections of photos you sync to mobile. Lightroom started on the desktop, and your canonical collection remains in your control, on your own Mac (or PC).