The iPad makes a great device for showing off one’s portfolio. If you use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, there are a couple steps to get your photos onto the iPad. These instructions are for Lightroom 2.6:
The Basics
- Pick a folder on your hard drive that you want to use for your photos that you’ll copy to the iPad. I created a “iPad Portfolio” folder.
- From Lightroom, export your photos to that location. The iPad’s screen resolution is 1024×768, so you might as well size them for the device since any larger files will only take up excess storage.
- Open iTunes (you’ll be using iTunes to copy the files to your iPad).
- Plug in your iPad if it’s not already connected.
- You should see the iPad listed on the left side of the iTunes window (under DEVICES). Click on the name of your iPad.
- Click on the “Photos” tab at the top of the window.
- Check the “Sync photos from…” box.
- In the dropdown menu (which usually defaults to iPhoto if you have it installed), click on “Choose Folder…”
- Select the folder where you placed your photos from Lightroom.
- Next time you sync your iPad, the photos should show in the Photos app on the iPad.
Creating Albums
The Photos app on the iPad offers a neat interface for viewing albums of photos, but how does one turn Lightroom files into an album on the iPad? It’s not as hard as you might think.
Albums are created based on the folder structure on disk. So, for example, if you create a Landscapes folder and a Weddings folder inside of the folder that you told iTunes to synchronize, you’ll find a Landscapes album on your iPad along with a Weddings album.
Photo by sciondriver, used under Creative Commons licensing
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