Hi Scott,

Glad you like the idea and actually it can be done 80 % already with an external plug in, a but “native” LR support would be much more comfortable .

There is a great PlugIn called ” Syncomatic” by John Beardsworth ( http://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/jbeardsworth/syncomatic/)
which synchronizes Library metadata and Develop adjustments

– between pairs of files whose names are identical (or have a suffix like -edit)
– between pairs of files whose capture times are identical – new in Syncomatic 2.0

Allowing you to “travel and if you shoot raw+JPEG you can import the JPEGs into Lightroom Mobile, apply star ratings and flags, even make adjustments. When you return to your computer, you can import the raw files into Lightroom and LrM automatically imports the JPEGs with the metadata. Syncomatic’s capture time option allows you to sync the metadata from the JPEGs to the raw files.”

Pretty clever & it works like a charm !!!

I always shoot RAW (on CF) & JPEG (on Eyefi SD card) basic on my 2 cards in D800, import JPEG into LR mobile via EyeFi Wifi (so again small file size come in handy), make “basic” edits & selection & key wording on ipad , import the raws at home , let Syncomatic sync JPEG settings to RAW & finally delete all JPEGs.

This is a great way to use LR & mobile within given file size restrictions.

For your JPEG quality comment .. I use on my D800 a custom neutral “looks like raw” JPEG setting , so an edit comes 80% close to RAW with the final edit anyway done on the “big screen” . My goal is not 100% of the edit on LR mobile . But preparing 1000 photos to a 80% edit before I come home including a pre selection in keepers so that the home edit starts on the 300 pre-selected and 80% ready files .

Makes sense ?

Bjoern

This is a great idea! I think the road block would be editing a JPEG is very different than editing a RAW photo (if they were the same, nobody would shoot RAW, right?). For example, JPEG files clip way before RAW files, and JPEG files already have sharpening and contrast and noise reduction added, so you’re working on a file that already has adjustment on it, and it will look very different from the RAW original. You’d almost need a “JPEG RAW” file type that would send over a JPEG image, but without any of the JPEG corrections like sharpening, contrast etc., added in camera, so it would have to be a new type of JPEG file without “the sauce.” So, it wouldn’t be in Adobe’s court – it would have to be done by a camera manufacturer first – then Adobe’s job would be easy, but I think we’re a LONG way from a camera manufacturer offering us an untouched JPEG image, but hey – ya never know. I like the idea either way. 🙂

Great idea to focus on lightroom mobile, one big functionality really missing is the sync from JPEG development settings back to Raw. The laptop based workflow with mobile “extension” = import on LR laptop & work on the run on ipad works just fine . But what would be really handy would be a a “mobile started DSLR ” workflow (not iphone) with
– importing small JPEGs from Camera (have a D800 so no way to import 36MB raw)
– followed by a basic editing of these JPEGs…and when back home
– importing all RAWs, and after that
– LR magic kicks in synchronizing the JPEG edits to the raw file with the same names in LR catalog

That would be a real mobile workflow … Any chance this is discussed at adobe HQ ?

Regards & thanks for all your great work & inspiration

Bjoern