The biggest gain from this change, for me, is that now my photos are synced across all devices, even those that are not Apple. I now let Google Photos handle all of my organization needs. I just found that Google did such an amazing job with searching images, that I no longer needed to spend so much time organizing them myself. I was using Lightroom when I changed my syncing solution, and it worked without a problem. That does not however mean that my current solution wouldn't work with Lightroom. The biggest thing however is that I've stopped using Lightroom for photo organization.
The setup for this is explained in detail further below. Any changes I made to the photos were immediately synced to all devices, because the library and photo lived in the synchronized Google Photos folder. The iOS Google Photos app would automatically upload my new photos in the background, and they'd sync down to my computers into my Lightroom library folder - ready for me to just perform "add missing files" in Lightroom. I then synced my entire Lightroom library into Google Photos. Ultimately, I setup a Google Photos library on my Google account.
Remember, this was early to mid 2016 - so iOS and macOS Photo apps were not as smart as they currently are now. Because of this, I found that I hardly ever actually migrated photos and it made it really hard to go back and find photos over time. Exporting them from iCloud Photo Library, into Lightroom, tweaking them etc, and then re-importing the photos back into iCloud was extremely tedious and time consuming.
It was a huge pain to deal with when trying to manage my photos in Lightroom. So get yourself your favorite beverage and snack! What's changed?īefore we get into the nitty-gritty details, lets take a look at what i've changed first.įrom a sync perspective, I've stopped using iCloud.
As is usually the case with these posts - it's hefty. So here I am, in 2017, sharing what's changed. In 2016, my photo synchronization strategy changed once again, but I never got around to writing a post on it. I originally posted back in 2014 how I was doing it, and again in 2015 with updates as technology changed. I've been meaning for a long time now, to share what I'm doing in regards to synchronizing photos across all of my devices.
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