jjlad
Active Member
- Joined
- Jan 18, 2009
- Messages
- 612
- Location
- Winnipeg, Canada
- Lightroom Experience
- Advanced
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- 8.4
- Operating System
- Windows 10
I wanted to get sync'd with the "Lightroom" app on my phone and found a YouTube video showing how to do it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRdI600JZS0
Great video but Adobe's new release of Lightroom Classic really made things confusing. You'd need to watch that video to see how confusing Adobe could make things in the space of a few short months! This is the text of a message I left with that video:
My Creative Cloud only showed "Lightroom - The cloud based photo service" , "Lightroom Classic" which I believe was formerly called "Lightroom Classic CC" (this is the one I have and it is Version 8.4), and "Lightroom Web". There is no "Lightroom CC" listing at all now.
On my Android phone I have "Lightroom".
At the top of my Lightroom Classic where you turned on "Sync with Lightroom CC", mine has "Sync with Lightroom".
Your screen shows the linked photos under Album but mine doesn't.
In Lightroom Classic Under "Catalog" I see "All Photographs", "All Synced Photographs", "Quick Collection", "Previous Import" and "Added by Previous Import".
I created a Collection Set called "AA Web Linked" and in that set a Collection called "4+ for FB". I selected "Sync with Lightroom" and made it the Target Collection. I added some images into that and they synced up fine, so I made another Collection in that Set called "4+ for Website" and made that the target collection and then went into the "4+ for FB" collection and selected one pic to add to target collection, and sure enough that pic now shows up in both collections, and all the photos in both of those collections now show up in that Catalog folder called "All Synced Photographs" and the count shows the correct total number. All the synced photos also almost instantly turned up in Lightroom on my phone.
You showed that on the bottom of the Metadata panel there was a "Sync Status" that revealed it was really a Smart Preview. Nowhere on my Lightroom Classic does that show up, but the syncing takes place so fast it must be via Smart Previews.
I just wanted to all add this here because Adobe seems to like changing the names of the applications and showing then removing things like the "Sync Status". I was confused and wanted to make sure it worked given all the names were different and you hadn't mentioned that top "Catalog" structure that includes "All Synced Photographs". I can see why people get frustrated with Adobe. Staying on top of things is like herding cats!
Anyway, hope this is helpful to those who are as confused as me.
Overall, it works very well, but folder structures don't sync and it would sure be nice if the synced collections could be Smart ones so one could just populate them automatically.
I'm just rebuilding a website and social media presence so haven't tried using this with those yet but expect to before long. That should be interesting.
For sure Adobe changes things so fast there is no possibility anyone could publish a printed book about anything Adobe, since it would be outdated and incorrect in no time. I guess that's the price of progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRdI600JZS0
Great video but Adobe's new release of Lightroom Classic really made things confusing. You'd need to watch that video to see how confusing Adobe could make things in the space of a few short months! This is the text of a message I left with that video:
My Creative Cloud only showed "Lightroom - The cloud based photo service" , "Lightroom Classic" which I believe was formerly called "Lightroom Classic CC" (this is the one I have and it is Version 8.4), and "Lightroom Web". There is no "Lightroom CC" listing at all now.
On my Android phone I have "Lightroom".
At the top of my Lightroom Classic where you turned on "Sync with Lightroom CC", mine has "Sync with Lightroom".
Your screen shows the linked photos under Album but mine doesn't.
In Lightroom Classic Under "Catalog" I see "All Photographs", "All Synced Photographs", "Quick Collection", "Previous Import" and "Added by Previous Import".
I created a Collection Set called "AA Web Linked" and in that set a Collection called "4+ for FB". I selected "Sync with Lightroom" and made it the Target Collection. I added some images into that and they synced up fine, so I made another Collection in that Set called "4+ for Website" and made that the target collection and then went into the "4+ for FB" collection and selected one pic to add to target collection, and sure enough that pic now shows up in both collections, and all the photos in both of those collections now show up in that Catalog folder called "All Synced Photographs" and the count shows the correct total number. All the synced photos also almost instantly turned up in Lightroom on my phone.
You showed that on the bottom of the Metadata panel there was a "Sync Status" that revealed it was really a Smart Preview. Nowhere on my Lightroom Classic does that show up, but the syncing takes place so fast it must be via Smart Previews.
I just wanted to all add this here because Adobe seems to like changing the names of the applications and showing then removing things like the "Sync Status". I was confused and wanted to make sure it worked given all the names were different and you hadn't mentioned that top "Catalog" structure that includes "All Synced Photographs". I can see why people get frustrated with Adobe. Staying on top of things is like herding cats!
Anyway, hope this is helpful to those who are as confused as me.
Overall, it works very well, but folder structures don't sync and it would sure be nice if the synced collections could be Smart ones so one could just populate them automatically.
I'm just rebuilding a website and social media presence so haven't tried using this with those yet but expect to before long. That should be interesting.
For sure Adobe changes things so fast there is no possibility anyone could publish a printed book about anything Adobe, since it would be outdated and incorrect in no time. I guess that's the price of progress.