Mobile Photography: Image Management

Course details

What do you do with the plethora of photos on your smartphone after taking them? It's easy to have hundreds—if not thousands—of photos in your library, but it isn't so easy to back up and keep track of them. In this course, get tips on how to manage your ever-growing mobile photography collection. Photographer Derrick Story delves into several different backup and organizational methods for both Android and iOS devices, highlighting the benefits and risks of each approach. Plus, he shares tips for enhancing the appearance of your shots right on your mobile device. Discover how to leverage your iPad as a mobile photography studio, transfer images from your digital camera to your mobile device, back up and edit photos with Lightroom, and much more.

Concepts

Introduction

Manage images on mobile devices
A few things about this course

Phone Camera Settings

Video recording options
Video slow-motion recording options
When to use Preserve Settings (iOS)
Stereo sound recording vs. mono
File format options for still pictures

Managing Phone Storage

Reviewing overall storage on your iPhone
Selecting the right amount of storage for a new phone
Balancing local storage with cloud storage on an iPhone
Changing your iCloud storage settings
Tapping iCloud Drive for more options

Managing and Editing Images on Mobile Devices

Getting the most out of chronological organization
The evolution of search tools
Marking images as favorites
Albums and collections
Apps for viewing picture metadata
Why mobile editing makes more sense than ever
How to quickly improve the appearance of a picture
Trimming and touching up movies

Using an iPad as a Mobile Photography Studio

How iPadOS changed everything for photographers
Taking advantage of screen real estate for photo work
Using the iPad as a soft box for taking pictures with the iPhone
Tapping the built-in Photos image database
Getting the most out of the Files app
Working with Lightroom on an iPad
Exploring Pixelmator Photo
Tapping RAW Power as your photo editing app

Transferring Images from Digital Camera to Mobile Device

Bringing your digital camera into the mobile workflow
Automatically adding geotags to digital camera photos
Transferring pictures from camera to smartphone via Wi-Fi
Using your smartphone as a remote release
Using AirDrop to move images from device to device

Android Photography and Lightroom

Using the built-in camera
Working with the Lightroom mobile camera
Reviewing Lightroom mobile preferences
Adding images to your Lightroom library
Editing a picture in Lightroom mobile
Editing a picture in Google Photos
Using Dropbox as an alternative backup

Conclusion

Keep improving your mobile photography