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Rooky007

Rooky007

Rooky007

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Hi Guys

I am currently a iMac user with a 2010 machine. I am now at the stage of looking of getting new machine. Either a new 5k iMac or possibly getting a MBP so I can have portability as well.

Is there any Photography people her using MBP and how do you find it with LR. Do you have to have a external Monitor to help you out or can you use a MBP purely..

Cheers
 
How much photography do you do?

The MBP is a powerful laptop and perfectly capable of running LR, you would want a secondary monitor though. 13" or 15" is fine but i find it much nicer to use another screen.

The 5k iMac is beautiful/powerful/great screen.

How important is portability to you?
 
Portability is not really important as I've the iPad for the couch and travel.

Going try editing on this for travel via LR mobile but how would I get those edit over to my LR library on iMac
 
I don't take many photos but the ones I do take I try to take seriously. I use both a rMBP and a 5K iMac with Lightroom CC, but I don't use Lightroom Mobile.

I find Lightroom on a 13" MacBook to be satisfactory. It works fine, the machine copes, but I just always want more screen real estate. Invariably, whenever I return when using the MacBook I just manually copy over the library and photos to the iMac. 2 minute job.
 
^Slightly off topic, but how can you copy all of the images, and more importantly, the edit data (ie what you've done to the images) in one go?

I have the latest gen 13" rMBP and it's perfectly fine with LR and handling RAW files etc. No complaints from me.
 
The_Abyss said:
I don't take many photos but the ones I do take I try to take seriously. I use both a rMBP and a 5K iMac with Lightroom CC, but I don't use Lightroom Mobile.

I find Lightroom on a 13" MacBook to be satisfactory. It works fine, the machine copes, but I just always want more screen real estate. Invariably, whenever I return when using the MacBook I just manually copy over the library and photos to the iMac. 2 minute job.
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How toy mean library pls
 
Do you shoot in RAW?
If so Lightroom Mobile (at least on IOS) does NOT support RAW files, only jpegs.
To sync with the desktop version, you need an Adobe Cloud subscription. You then sign both apps into the account and they use the cloud to sync changes.
LR Mobile seems primarily aimed at using the full app for editting, and then just syncing them to mobile for minor re-edits if for example, you go out to a client with them. I've personally found the mobile app pretty useless.

I've got a 13" Macbook Pro with i5 8gb ram and have found it performs quite nicely.myes, it could be a bit faster, but it's easily usable as a primary machine.

If you have a laptop and desktop moving the photos is easy. Assuming they are in a specific folder in Lightroom, you can just export the whole folder as a catalog, which contains all the edits and previews. On the other machine, you just open Lightroom and 'import from another catalog'.
 
Ah didn't think about the raw part duh lol right scrap that lol

Does LR look cramp on a 15" MBP as I would have those the image looks small to be able to edit. I know we can get a external monitor then it all adds up then may as well get a iMac

As we know in LR we had sidebar on both side so image will look small in centre. On we could hide the left bar while editing.

I know Aperture would be much better on these small,screen over LR
 
Can anyone send a picture of a macbook pro 15" with Lightroom on in Develop mode.

But really a picture won't really show it size will it I suppose :(
 
I use LR on my 13" MBP frequently. I run the screen at native resolution though so things are very small but I get a lot on it.
I will be honest though, if I need to do some heavy editing I tend to switch to a PC with a big 4k screen. It just makes things easier.

Here's a link to a screen shot of my MBP running LR on the Develop panel for you: http://imgur.com/mJgOmdV
 
What resolution that on as that seem ok to me.. As I believe there 4 options is there on the mbp.. in the middle which is default as Normal then there 2 after this.. Does this make sense?
 
There'll be a bit more screen space on a 15", but don't expect miracles.

For context, here is my 13" rMBP next to a 5K iMac.

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My macbook is connected to a thunderbolt display for any sort of "work". 13" would be far to small considering the resolution of modern cameras.
 
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