The Photographer's iPad: Putting the iPad at the heart of your photographic workflow PDF
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The Photographer's I a The FRANK GALLAUGHER Photographer's I ") - 8 - Hex An Hachet1e UK Company www.hachelle.co.uk First published in the UK in 2015 by ILEX, a diviSion of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd Carmelite House 50 Victoria Embankment London, EC4Y ODZ www.octopusbooks.co.uk Design, layout, and text copyright © Octopus Publishing Group 2015 Distributed in the US by Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas 4th and 5th Floors New York, NY 10020 Distributed in Canada by Canadian Manda Group 664 Annele St., Toronto, Ontario Canada M6S 2C8 Publisher: Roly Allen Commissioning Editor: Adam Juniper Editor: Rachel Silverlight Senior Project Editor: Natalia Price·Cabrera Art Director: Julie Weir Design Concept: Grade Design Designer: Ginny Zeal Senior Production Manager: Peter Hunt All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Frank Gallaugher asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. ISBN 978-1-78157-226-9 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Printed in China 1098765432 6 Introduction 8 Getting Started " Ughtroom Mobile 10 Setting Up a New iPad 8": Lightroom Workflow 12 Upgrading Your iPad "16 Collections 14 What You Can Do with Your iPad Presets 16 What You Can't Do with Your iPad 12 Making Adjustments 20 Creating an iPad Workflow 'l6 Custom Presets 22 Importing Photos 92 Working In iMovie 24 The Camera App 00 Getting Started 30 Importing from a Card 11.L The Editing Workspace 32 Importing Wirelessly 11 :2 The Timeline 36 iCloud "0 Sharing from iMovie 40 AirDrop ,0 "L Drop Box In the Studio 1 . ,1 Shuttersnitch OrganiZing Photos "( 1 "0 WiFi Tethering .. The Photos App '8 TriggerTrap r::,1 Photosmith Duet 52 Syncing with Lightroom 122 Useful Studio Apps f Edtlng Photos Shanrg Photos 6,,1 Editing in the Photos App 128 The Share Function Snapseed 3L Creating Online Galleries PiRAWnha Portfolio with Foliobook 13b Resources '38 Recommended Accessories " Recommended Apps 142 Index I ~l ,. . Acknowledgments Introduction For a long time I was frustrated with Mobility isn't just a nice thing to have in the iPad. Sure, it was really cool to play around with photography; it's a fundamentally important the touch interface and admire high-resolution aspect of our art. Whether you're shooting a images on the retina screen, but the novelty wore compact camera or a full-frame DSLR, it's part of off, as it tends to, and I wanted to do more. Apple our ethos as photographers to go where we need to certainly promoted it as a creative tool, so why was be to get the shot, and the less encumbrance it such a hassle getting my photos onto it, not to toward that end the better. Of course, the images mention editing them? don't stop at the camera either, and as advanced, connected, and WiFi/Bluetooth/NFC-enabled as Some of that had to do with the limitations of the our modern cameras are getting, for serious early iPads, and a lot of it had to do with Apple's photography, there's still a critical step between walled-garden approach to its operating system (in capturing an image and sharing it: the computer. which Apple carefully manages its ecosystem and doesn't allow a lot of open-ended functions and Well, you can now leave the laptop behind for the features), but all of that has changed now. Today's vast majority of your shooting needs. By the end iPads are as powerful as many "proper" computers, of this book, you'll feel confident in your ability to and Apple has finally seen the light (at least import and organize photos in the field, edit them glimmers of it) and begun opening up iOS to using professional-quality tools, sync all this with developers in a number of ways that give me your main image library back home, and share your control over where my files are, and where they're images at any step along the way. Plus there's video going. Even then, it's not always clear how to editing and studio shooting thrown in for good achieve what I want. In writing this book I can't tell measure, because, well, the iPad is impressively you how many times I banged my head against my useful in those situations as well. desk, trying to figure out why a certain menu item was grayed out, or where an image was actually My goal is to map out this workflow as simply as being saved to. possible, to make it abundantly clear how to achieve what you want, whether that's uploading your But I figured it out, for the most part, and here I've photo to a specific outlet, or achieving a particular put together a workflow that will not only help you look in editing. I fully expect that before you know make the most of your iPad, but will also, I hope, it, the iPad will become one of your most augment your photography. That's a pretty big important pieces of gear for achieving and claim to make, I know, but hear me out. sharing your creative vision. * A note about obsolescence: At the time of writing, all the apps described in this book are fully supported and compatible, but that's bound to change eventually. You may find that the latest camera models are no longer supported by an app, or that certain apps themselves are discontinued. In that case, please ~ Pro tip: polarized sunglasses help visit ilexinstanlcom/resources, where I'll post updates and/or cut through the glare of an iPad screen workarounds, should the need arise. in sunlight. 6 7
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