Posted by David Graham on March 23, 2013 at 4:25 PM
This was well received when I gave a demo to the Sioux Falls Camera Club last week, so I thought that some on the NPN list who weren't familiar with the technique might enjoy it.
Here's wutcha do:
First you must have two apps:
"Dropbox" ( or some other cloud storage) and " Go to My PC" ( or perhaps some similar app?) installed in both your iPad and Your PC/Mac
1.Upload the RAW files from your camera or its SD card into the iPad (using the iPad Camera Connection Kit) or the iPad 5-in-1 Camera Connection Kit.
2.Then upload those RAW files to a "cloud storage" service ( I use " Dropbox") . This can be time consuming; I start the uploading just before retiring of an evening.
3.Then access your desktop computer back home using "Go to My PC".
(From this point on your home PC's display is what you see in your iPad)
4. Download the RAW image files from Dropbox. You may download to a hard drive or may wish first to open PS or lightroom or some other image processor into which to download the images from Dropbox.
5, Open your preferred image processor.
6. Use your image processor in your iPad just as you would on your home PC.
Yes, the iPad display is smaller than your monitor at home, But...
because it's an iPad display you can use it as a touch screen. Your fingers may seem too large to touch the Photoshop menues with accuracy...until you realize you can use a "two finger spread" to enlarge the region of the display you are working on!
NOW...go back to your campsite at a shaded spot near the North Rim, get your iPad online...eithr with its 4g capability or, if it is only WiFi,, via the hotspot app in your cell phone... And give this a go!
That's it ! You're now in the BraveNew World of "full service Photoshop" on your iPad!
Enjoy!
Dave Graham
East River, SD
Posted by Paul DeCesare on March 24, 2013 at 12:18 AM
Great workflow! I need to try that just to try it, lol. I've got everything needed (7 cloud accounts actually, lol). The Apple BT keyboard I use with the iPad will make the keyboard shortcuts I have set in my desktop installation quite easy to use.
Isn't it just plain nuts what we have available to us these days? I was 7 when Neil Armstrong took that first step, and the tech bug bit and ever since then I've been a certified lulu of a geek, lol...
Posted by David Graham on March 24, 2013 at 6:42 PM
Thanks, Paul, for your response. I sense that being a "...certified lulu of a geek.." is somehow a bad thing ! ?
I should respond to several off-list queries:
1. I do not rely on DROPBOX as my only backup. I mention it as an ideal facilitator of the present functional context of using Photoshop directly on the iPad. After uploading just the desired image files from the SD card to Dropbox, that card with its intact image files is kept intact until my return home where its files gain extended (eternal?) life in two external HDs and on DVDs.
2. use of the iPad's touch-screen display of PS is facilitated after enlarging the image with the "two-finger-spread" by using a touch-screen stylus. I must admit that with only moderate enlargement of the image on the screen I find many activities in PS at least as easy on the IPad as in PS on my PC. Essentially all NON-CHROMATIC adjustments of the image are (IMO) as easily performed on the iPad as on the PC itself. Hue, saturation, and color value adjustments are, however, far more accurately accoplished on your PC's color adjusted monitor than in the iPad's display.
3. John's comment re: leaving Photoshop at home and enjoying the "disconnect" of solitude and distance has much merit and is one which I, more often than not, do fondly embrace. There are, however, those of our number who suffer palpable '"cyber withdrawl" out in the out-and-beyond and would welcome the opportunity to re-connect...even briefly..with their alternate "place in cyber-space". It is to them that this topic is dedicated.
Dave Graham
Discussion
2 repliesHere's wutcha do:
First you must have two apps:
"Dropbox" ( or some other cloud storage) and " Go to My PC" ( or perhaps some similar app?) installed in both your iPad and Your PC/Mac
1.Upload the RAW files from your camera or its SD card into the iPad (using the iPad Camera Connection Kit) or the iPad 5-in-1 Camera Connection Kit.
2.Then upload those RAW files to a "cloud storage" service ( I use " Dropbox") . This can be time consuming; I start the uploading just before retiring of an evening.
3.Then access your desktop computer back home using "Go to My PC".
(From this point on your home PC's display is what you see in your iPad)
4. Download the RAW image files from Dropbox. You may download to a hard drive or may wish first to open PS or lightroom or some other image processor into which to download the images from Dropbox.
5, Open your preferred image processor.
6. Use your image processor in your iPad just as you would on your home PC.
Yes, the iPad display is smaller than your monitor at home, But...
because it's an iPad display you can use it as a touch screen. Your fingers may seem too large to touch the Photoshop menues with accuracy...until you realize you can use a "two finger spread" to enlarge the region of the display you are working on!
NOW...go back to your campsite at a shaded spot near the North Rim, get your iPad online...eithr with its 4g capability or, if it is only WiFi,, via the hotspot app in your cell phone... And give this a go!
That's it ! You're now in the BraveNew World of "full service Photoshop" on your iPad!
Enjoy!
Dave Graham
East River, SD
Isn't it just plain nuts what we have available to us these days? I was 7 when Neil Armstrong took that first step, and the tech bug bit and ever since then I've been a certified lulu of a geek, lol...
I should respond to several off-list queries:
1. I do not rely on DROPBOX as my only backup. I mention it as an ideal facilitator of the present functional context of using Photoshop directly on the iPad. After uploading just the desired image files from the SD card to Dropbox, that card with its intact image files is kept intact until my return home where its files gain extended (eternal?) life in two external HDs and on DVDs.
2. use of the iPad's touch-screen display of PS is facilitated after enlarging the image with the "two-finger-spread" by using a touch-screen stylus. I must admit that with only moderate enlargement of the image on the screen I find many activities in PS at least as easy on the IPad as in PS on my PC. Essentially all NON-CHROMATIC adjustments of the image are (IMO) as easily performed on the iPad as on the PC itself. Hue, saturation, and color value adjustments are, however, far more accurately accoplished on your PC's color adjusted monitor than in the iPad's display.
3. John's comment re: leaving Photoshop at home and enjoying the "disconnect" of solitude and distance has much merit and is one which I, more often than not, do fondly embrace. There are, however, those of our number who suffer palpable '"cyber withdrawl" out in the out-and-beyond and would welcome the opportunity to re-connect...even briefly..with their alternate "place in cyber-space". It is to them that this topic is dedicated.
Dave Graham