From the course: Learning Lightroom Mobile

Using the exercise files - Lightroom Mobile Tutorial

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Using the exercise files

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- [Instructor] You're welcome to follow along with this course, using your own photos, better yet you have another option, if you have these two things, access to the exercise files for this course, and an Adobe creative cloud photography plan that lets you install Lightroom on the computer, and Lightroom on a mobile device. In that case, you can import the exercise files to Lightroom on your computer, and they'll automatically sync over to Lightroom on your mobile device. Here's how to do that. I've installed Lightroom on my mobile device, and I've also installed Lightroom, not Lightroom classic, but Lightroom on my computer, which we're looking at here. And I've and into both Lightroom on mobile, and Lightroom on my computer, with my Adobe ID. And both my computer and my mobile device are online. I downloaded the exercise files from LinkedIn Learning, and I put them here on My Computer, on the computer desktop. Now in Lightroom on My Computer, I'm going to click the plus icon at the top left. In the popup display, I'll click browse. And I'll navigate to my desktop and the exercise files folder on my desktop. I'll go down to the bottom right of the Finder window, or the Explore window on Windows, and I'll click review for import, that's the Add Photos button in Windows. That displays all the exercise files in Lightrooms import window on my computer. I'll leave all those checked, and I'll go up to the top right, and I'll click the Add Photos button. If you look at the cloud icon at the top right, you'll see a blue circle spinning. That means that all these photos are automatically syncing from Lightroom on my desktop, to the Adobe cloud. And from the cloud, they'll sync down to Lightroom on my iPad. So let's switch over to the iPad to see that. Sure enough, the exercise files are here in Lightroom on my iPad, sync through the Adobe cloud. Now let's make an album that you can use to quickly get to the exercise files anytime you want. Here in Lightrooms album view on my iPad, I'll tap recently added. If you don't see recently added, give it a second, and make sure the arrow to the right of all photos is facing downward. Select the exercise files by tapping the three dot menu at the top right. Tap select, then tap the check box, recently added. Now tap the add to button at the bottom of the screen. Under destination, tap the plus icon to the right of albums, and choose album. In the create album pop-up, name the new album exercise files and tap okay. Tap add next to destination. And now in the albums panel, there's a new exercise files album. Tap right on that exercise files album, to view only the exercise files and not any other photos, that you may have in Lightroom on your mobile device. Now let's sort the exercise files in the order we'll be using them. Tap the three dot menu at the top again, and this time choose sort by capture date, and tap file name instead, and make sure that the arrow to the right of file name, is pointing up, if it's not, tap that arrow to reverse it. I'm going to swipe, and now the files are sorted correctly for our use, from top to bottom of the photo grid. At the beginning of each lesson, come back to this view and tap the exercise files album in the albums panel, to get the file you need. With or without the exercise files, it's always a good idea to follow along. So work along with me as we dive into Lightroom on mobile, in the very next chapter.

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