on 2012-08-03 16:49 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM, steve harley<[email protected]> wrote:
on 2012-08-03 13:57 Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote
Yes, it is a little more complex ... I wrote too quickly. But you've
made it sound too complex and confusing.
that's it, i think it _is_ too complex and confusing, particularly if one wants
to move images bidirectionally between computer & iPad
- iPhoto and Aperture allow you to organize photos into albums. Or you
can organize photos into folders for uploading instead.
a key point is that these channels are mutually exclusive — if you switch
channels you delete all the photos from the other without warning
(I have a folder tree that I add folders of images to,
each representing an album once on the iPad;
how does this work with the non-hierarchical folders on iOS? can the tree have
only one subfolder level?
I don't use either iPhoto
or Aperture. If I did use one of the two applications to organize or
edit my photos, I'd export them to a folder first, just like I now do
with Lightroom. When I sync the iPad with iTunes, it moves all the new
images to the Photos app as an album.)
is there a way to update an exported folder automatically from Lightroom
whenever a set changes? i currently use Aperture for both static image sets
such as my father's and stepfather's photo catalogs, and smart sets such as
"★★+ in the four months" and "★+ in the last two weeks" (those are stars for
those of you without Unicode email); the smart sets are extremely convenient
for a rolling review of my recent work on iDevices; i had to merge my static
sets from iPhoto to Aperture to make this work though
in my contemplated switch to Lightroom i face awkward workarounds to keep
things flowing smoothly; if i use the folder sync at all, i lose *all* the
auto-syncing with Aperture, and i'll have to do repeated manual updates
- iTunes will also allow you to drop photos (and other documents)
directly into individual app's file systems on the iPad.
i realized i had omitted that route, but it's not very useful for me because
few of my many photo-related apps support it, and it doesn't work at all with
the Photos app or the main photo library; also, you can't drag a folder this
way, and you can't look inside subfolders on the iPad, only delete them and
copy them
So the workflow is:
- upload from card or camera with the Camera Connection Kit
- create new images with the iPad too (the new one has a much nicer
camera than the iPad 2)
- edit on iPad (results go into Camera Roll or direct to online
services per your options)
- download original and finished work with Image Capture, iPhoto or
Aperture, to computer as you please.
- Edit if needed. Organize finished work as albums either in iPhoto or
Aperture, or in the file system as JPEG files in a directory tree.
- Upload to the iPad by using iTunes.
this is a good workflow, and a nice summary of it; it will work well for me
insofar as it flows from camera to iPad to computer, but where i think it is
most complicated is going back to iPad; with Aperture it's not too bad, but
it's giving me regrets about my plan to use Lightroom; there is also the fact
that you can't selectively delete from the iPad unless you use Image Capture,
which splits the workflow unless you are using Image Capture anyway (e.g.
because you use Lightroom)
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