iPad App Giveaway: Photosmith
June 7th, 2012I’m going to keep this short and sweet. As you may have noticed, I take a lot of photos. Like many photographers, I love Adobe Lightroom – it’s probably my most-used application on my computer… well-designed, fantastically organized, and very powerful. I also love my iPad and take it with me a lot more often than I do my laptop computer. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a Lightroom for iPad? Well, there isn’t.
But there is something that is just about as good: Photosmith for iPad.
The Photosmith app allows you to, among other things, work with RAW camera files on the iPad, applying Lightroom tags, color labels, picks/rejects, star ratings, sets, etc to your photos right on your iPad. All of that then gets synced to your desktop Lightroom library. It allows you to basically review and start the process of managing your photos before you ever even sit down to your desktop Lightroom library.
The biggest surprise for me was that it works amazingly fast, even with huge RAW files. It’s about the best $20 I’ve ever spent on an app.
And I’ve got a free copy of Photosmith for 3 lucky winners. You’ll get the app as well as a lifetime of free updates (they just keep improving the software). All you need to do is leave a comment on this post, below, about the type of photography you do. Be sure to fill out the “email” field (will not be posted or shared). If you’ve got Twitter, make sure you tweet about this contest, too. You’ve got until midnight (EST), on Tuesday, June 12th, to enter.
I’ll randomly select three winners and, if you win, contact you with a code good for a FREE copy of Photosmith. One entry per person, please!
You can also learn more about the app here. Good luck!
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I’m interested in Photosmith. I love Lightroom and been dying for an ipad version so I can more easily play with my photos on the go. Of course I’m torn as adobe has not yet come out with an ipad app yet and I’m wery to buy an app that claims it can do what Lightroom can do. Would be better if a light version for your app was available so people can try it out.
Hi Wilson. I’m not the developer of the app, just offered them a chance to give a couple of copies away and they accepted. I do like the app, but the main problem is that it doesn’t allow users to delete photos. That’s an limitation Apple is imposing however, not the app devs.
The good news is version 3 of photosmith will, I believe, allow users to delete photos from the iPad.
To be clear it does allow you to tag and sort your collection, pick and reject, etc, which will all sync back to LR… but you can’t develop on the iPad.
Pick me!
I like photos with people in them.
My nephew and i go on road trips to abandoned places -an abandoned zoo and storybook forest, an abandoned turnpike, even abandoned houses- and we take photographs.
https://twitter.com/dddiva/status/212586897854304259
We do photos for the blogs, mostly, but my youngest is certified in Photoshop & planning on attending school to major in photography and I’d want this for her.
I shoot anything, anyone, and then after that – everything.
Hi, i love to photograph people and animals.
Wanted photosmith for long time.
Greets
I used to do poodles and flowers, now it’s just the baby
I photograph everything but lately it has taken a focus on my kids who came after the love of photography
I take mostly family photos and nature shots
We enjoy taking all kinds of photos, especially airplanes and photos while in the air.
What that think that allows to download pictures from a card to iPad. Where can I find it? If I had one – there whould be so great
Two types really: holiday shots and pics that are part of art projects.
hi, I mostly photograph street, travel, lifestyle and products.
Hi, I mostly photograph musicians and have been documenting the indie music scene in India for the past 5 years.
All sorts of light photography, it’s fun to do and trippy to look at.