I'm a bit tired of traveling with my laptop and I would like to downsize a little bit, so I was thinking in using a tablet, but I don´t know how LR works with it. I don't need to edit with IA, just basic adjustments. My ideal is when on a dive trip, after the last dive and with a beer in my hands I download the pictures to the laptop well organized and with keywords to find everything, sometimes I order another beer and i start doing basic adjustments to a picture, not more. And when finally at home I move the files from my laptop to the NAS, everything trough LR in order to don't lose the files. I would like to do the same but with a Tablet. I don't know if this is possible and what kind of tablet should I buy, I don't want to spend a lot of money. Also the tablet must be Android.

Hi Atus,

In principle, such a workflow is possible with the mobile version of Lightroom. I've done it myself on several trips and vacations. I worked with a 2018 iPad Pro, but I think it should also work with Android tablets.

The basic requirement is a Lightroom subscription with sufficient storage space, or enough storage space on the tablet. I don't think it's possible any other way these days.

After taking the photos, the images are imported directly into Lightroom on the tablet and copied to the tablet. (I worked exclusively with RAW files.) Afterward, I usually did a rough sort of the images with Wi-Fi turned off, i.e., without internet access, and immediately deleted the unusable ones. Unfortunately, using keywords doesn't work yet, as far as I know. Therefore, I focused on star ratings. As soon as the tablet has an internet connection, the original RAW files are uploaded to the Adobe server, so you essentially have a backup. Almost all image development options are also available on the tablet.

When I get home, I launch Lightroom Classic, and all my RAW files, including star ratings and any other developments, are downloaded from the Adobe server and saved to a specific location. Once everything is downloaded, I move it all to the correct location within my file structure and can then delete the space it's using on the server.

This workflow works perfectly for me. I even created a tutorial for it. I should probably double-check everything, though, since there have been a few Lightroom updates.

Cheers, Tino

If you have an Android phone and a corresponding LR subscription, you can test the workflow before buying a tablet; it works exactly the same on a phone as on a tablet.