crbuckjr Loc: Naples FL

How can I easily (and automatically?) move iPhone photos to LR and then delete the photos from my iPhone? I am on a PC and using Creative Cloud version of LR

thanks

tsilva Loc: Arizona

crbuckjr Loc: Naples FL

unless I am missing something his preferred solution only work on a MAC...that post is what lead me to ask here...thanks

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

The way I would do this is with the Apple Workflow App. Have the Dropbox folder on your LR, use workflow to copy photos to Dropbox, then delete photos. Since the Dropbox folder is in LR, all you have to do is r-click in LR and sync the folder to import the new images. I believe upload last photo to Dropbox is a default workflow. You just need to modify it by adding one action at the end of the workflow to delete photo off your iPhone.

The Workflow app runs on your iPhone.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

The Lightroom mobile app on your phone will load a designated folder on your computer in Lightroom.

I can take a shot, or a few, press the sync button in LR on my Android phone, open Lightroom on my computer and it will be there. I don't yet fully understand the deletion process. I think I have use LR to move the phone from the "synced" folder to another folder and then delete on the phone.

crbuckjr Loc: Naples FL

thanks..I'll check this out..

orrie smith Loc: Kansas

no easy way. download the photos to a folder on your desktop and import that folder to lightroom. as for deleting your photos from your iPhone, you need to connect with iTunes and sync an empty folder to your photo app. you should be able to get more detailed info from google.

TomZ

I delete very few photos from my iPhone, but I regularly and automatically download photos from my iPhone to LR, and occasionally automatically upload from LR to the iPhone. So this does not accomplish your entire goal but may still prove partially useful. Here is my methodology.

I use iCloud to move photos automatically between my computer and iPhone. This requires setting up two folders, one to receive the downloaded photos and another one to act as the source of photos you wish to be uploaded.

To get LR to do its part, I set up Auto Import in LR. (File>Auto Import.) I chose as the Watched Folder that folder where iCloud puts the download photos. I also set the folder designated as the upload folder to be the destination folder for aLR export preset. Then, when I wish to upload from LR I use that particular preset and in sort order the exported photos show up on my iPhone.
Hope this proves helpful.

berchman Loc: South Central PA

Connect your iPhone to a USB port on your computer using Apple's lightning to USB cable. Click import in Lightroom. You will see the iPhone as a source. Click on that and all the pictures will appear in Lightroom. Import.

Erasing the photos from the iPhone is a separate operation. I've done it a couple of times, but each time I have to look up the procedure with Google.

Capture48 Loc: Arizona

:thumbup: :thumbup:
I was not aware LR supported the iPhone, I thought it only supported the iPad / tablets. Good to know, this is a good solution.

Notice how people are saying it can't be done easily... Trust me, I do it with the push of one button on my iphone with the workflow app, and bsprague solution will work just as well, except the delete off my iPhone part without the use of an app.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Buy a Mac. The iPhone is integrated with it via iTunes, Photos, and Image Capture apps, all part of OS X. Image Capture will do EXACTLY what you want. You can create a folder, download all images or just a range, and auto-delete the images from the phone. It's my preferred way to work.

I'm pretty sure you can import straight to LR, too.

berchman Loc: South Central PA

Not a helpful remark to someone who already has a PC. I bought a Mac in 1994, paying over $2000 for it. By the time I was ready to replace it, it looked as though Apple wasn't going to survive. So I bought a PC. Software that I wanted was available only for PC's, not Macs, especially financial software. Until Windows 7, the operating system was a pain in the ass. But I've had no trouble with Windows 7.

Last year I bought my wife a Macbook Air as a birthday present. She had been using Apple and that's what she wanted. I've tried using it a few times and I don't like it because I don't want to have to learn a whole new operating system. Intuitive it is not. The only reason I bought an iPhone last year instead of an Android is that I judged the pictures were better and the photographic software for it was better.

When someone using a PC asks for help, it is not helpful when an Apple fanboy tells him to get a Mac. I recently watched the documentary on Steve Jobs. He was a truly rotten human being and his name will forever be associated with Apple.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Oh, please! It's not a "this camp vs. that camp" world. I'm not a fanboy, just a user. I've seen the value of Steve Jobs' products, and his approach in building businesses. Forget the Hollywood version that was designed to sell tickets. Talk to some folks who worked with him (and didn't get fired). He's one of the most influential forces in technology of the last 40 years, and built the most valuable company on earth. A-hole or not, the guy was powerful, and did some pretty remarkable trail blazing!

I use BOTH Windows PCs and Macs, extensively, and have since 1984, back when I was also using an Apple IIe. Actually, I run Win7 on a Mac, both in BootCamp (native PC mode) and in Parallels Desktop virtualization software. I created database solutions for Windows and Mac, on my Mac (in both operating systems), for over a decade. I ran the digital side of a pro photo lab using a mix of Macs and Windows machines.

I can tell you from personal experience as a Systems Manager that Mac support costs are one fourth to one fifth the cost of Windows PCs. If you don't believe me, ask IBM's VP of IT. He's put over 130,000 Apple devices in IBM employees' hands, as of last August, with plans for deployment of up to 200,000 Macs.

http://fortune.com/2015/10/16/apple-ibm-helpdesk/

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2956799/computer-hardware/in-a-huge-move-ibm-begins-pitching-apple-macs-for-enterprise-it.html

There are certain truths about both platforms that you just cannot fight. You will find that anything iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod...) works better on the Mac than it does on Windows. Apple has an ecosystem that is designed to work seamlessly, from device to device to device, through Apple iCloud.

There are plenty of other examples for both platforms, which is why I use both. My wife and I are both cross-platform workers, and compare notes regularly. She, like me, has been frustrated with the iOS connectivity to Windows by comparison with the Mac. Because they control the hardware and the software and the ecosystem around them, Apple can make it all work. They do have their "Uh-Oh!" moments, like anyone else, but the long term trend is that it all just works.

crbuckjr Loc: Naples FL

Capture48 I downloaded the Workflow app and it looks to be quite good. But, I can't figure out exactly how to do a work flow that will download Camera Role to Dropbox and then delete pics from Camera Role. Can you point me to some help? Thanks

Paul Buckhiester Loc: Columbus, GA USA

I believe you are correct.