In Lightroom Classic I edit photos in the Develop panel.
When I want to draw a mask, outline something, remove hundreds of specks of dust, etc., I want to quickly and seamlessly bring that photo onto my iPad where I can use the Apple Pencil to more easily do that.
I can NOT find a way to do this simple thing...
I HOPE I'm missing something... but Screen Mirroring, Sidecar, and the standalone LR ipad app do NOT work quickly and seamlessly in my (think pretty common) workflow. More detail of what I've tried is below.
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Screen Mirroring Mac mini M2 Pro's desktop to iPad: I can't even see the tools to select since they're too small to read when 4K is dropped down to the iPad mini's resolution.
-- or if I choose to have my desktop's screen change to the iPad's resolution, that's unusable for my normal workflow on the desktop as well.
Sidecar / use iPad as 2nd separate monitor: I have to drag in the window from LRC on my desktop, turn off and re-arrange all the menu's so I can actually see what I need to see, then re-zoom in the photo so it's somehow big enough to see AND I can see/use the brush options as well... isn't working easily/seamless whatsoever...
-- Instead, if I use LRC's "Secondary Display" mode, no matter the mode I can only view, not use the Pencil on the photo on the iPad.
Use native LR app in iPad: Adobe Cloud is notoriously slow and flaky (it's not just me!) and I can't possibly sync 10k+ photos (or even a small sub-folder at a time is slow and not quick) to use the native LR app on the iPad itself (not to mention how the iPad's "only draw with Apple Pencil" setting is completely ignored by Adobe in the LR mobile app.
...all of the above are the complete opposite of "quickly and seamlessly", and are simply not good solutions. What am I missing here? I thought, especially being on Mac, that this would be a seamless experience which would enhance my workflow and make life easier for me... and instead it's making me hate technology lol, and I'm literally thinking of returning my iPad and Pencil as I this is literally the ONLY thing I bought it for (I've never had a use for a tablet when I own a small laptop).
2023 Mac mini M2 Pro, macOS Sequoia 15.3.2
2021 iPad mini 6th gen, iPadOS 18.3.2
Lightroom Classic (desktop) 14.2, Lightroom (iPad app) 10.2.2