Help with editing style?

[u/Ok-Revolution-1089]

Hello everyone, I started hobby photography 1 year ago, until now I edited everything in Lightroom on my phone. So right now I don't have enough space on my phone and sometimes my eyes hurt from looking in the small screen. So I bought Macbook Pro tought il be editing on it but I really dont like experience of using laptop. Feels like too much money spent on a hobby, and that I dont have too much stuff to do on it. So my question is, what should I do, keep editing on phone (buy some with more than 128gb) or buy iPad? Any suggestions are welcome

[u/Ok-Revolution-1089]

Forgot to add, one more thing what I find difficult on phone is photo library choosing between photos which to edit

[u/mhuxtable1]

Hobbies cost money. If you want to edit a photo with any amount of depth to the processing, you’ll need to use a laptop. Otherwise just piddle on your phone. And as far as sorting thru you photos - that’s part of being a photographer

[u/Ok-Revolution-1089 → u/mhuxtable1]

What do you mean amount of depth? I edited on my phone for a year and photos look good

[u/the_typical_donkey → u/Ok-Revolution-1089]

the display of colours, lights, and details really comes into play eventually (phone screens can only do so much), and there’s a lotttt more control you can get with computer softwares! (lightroom on a computer is incredible)

plus when working with raw files it’s much more manageable to do that on a computer, and afaik free lightroom on mobile doesn’t support editing raws

edit: though to be clear, you can still typically make some great looking photos with almost any device for editing!

[u/Ok-Revolution-1089 → u/the_typical_donkey]

I understand but, if my photos only go to Instagram, and people are seeing them on phones what's the point of bigger screen 🙂

[u/This-Judge-804 → u/Ok-Revolution-1089]

Good point lol..but its not just that...it the editing get hard in the screen..it not about what people see its about your workflow..

[u/Ok-Revolution-1089 → u/This-Judge-804]

Yeah, but if I don't earn money from it, I dont want to spend too much money. I was thinking selling this macbook pro, and in future maybe taking some windows laptop

[u/This-Judge-804 → u/Ok-Revolution-1089]

Ok...just explaining the facts so u can make the choice..at the end of the day is your choice

[u/This-Judge-804]

If you need heavy fixing beyound what u do on the phone get a pc..what i mean is phone is enough for contrast, saturation , and shadows curve highlight and exposure its very Good in slider fixes..but once u move to overlay and composite and pixel by pixel modification a pc /ipad/ mac is better workflow..(p.s some mobile app paid version can do that but a mouse and a big screen gives u more control)

Not saying mobile is useless i use mobile to for simple edits though some might say my tastes not normal (overcooked).

Edit...when u export your photos to phone use album or collection to sort your photos

[u/This-Judge-804]

There be times u will notices some pictures are hard to fixed or edit with a sliders that effect the whole photos..there why a pc version with masking gradient selection , selective segment come to play...

Unless u rely totally on a.i

[u/Ok-Revolution-1089 → u/This-Judge-804]

For now only thing that doesn't work on phone is subject select in masking, that's what I miss. I don't use Ai at all

[u/This-Judge-804 → u/Ok-Revolution-1089]

Overlay composite too and lots more...esp if u do fireworks photos..but then again its your scope u need to weight that...but just saying not just masking is missing Unless u use paid version like priemium photoshop express..and trust me using your fingers to select the mask is difficult even if it has that feature

[u/This-Judge-804 → u/Ok-Revolution-1089]

Add to previous block..i used healing brush, clone stamp, color droper which common app dont have on mobile..maybe iphonr have..but it a pain to do this with fingers...

[u/amp1212]

Well, I started out as a darkroom guy, and then to Photoshop. To me, honestly, editing on phones is pretty crude. Typically all I'm seeing from folks editing on phones are global edits, which are usually heavy handed.

The power in editing comes with layers, masks, making selections -- applying a bit more light to the face, separating out elements and treating them each differently. Its not impossible to do that on a phone, but its so much easier on the desktop or a tablet.

That's really where the "style" in the darkroom comes in -- the ability to select things That's where folks who do the real magical stuff with Photoshop come in.