From Lightroom to iphone or ipod touch

ShawWellPete

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I have Lightroom 2.7 running on a Mac and are interested in how other people get their photos onto their i-phones or i-pod touches.

Until now I have been exporting a bunch of JPEGs into i-photo (using a plugin) and syncing with that. The plugin no longer works so I will probably remove iphoto and export JPEGs to a folder and get the ipod touch to get the photos from the relevant directory.

Is there a better way?

What is the best resolution to use to show off the photos without taking up too much space?

Thanks for any help...
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The only official way to get photos onto an iPhone/iPod Touch is via iPhoto (maybe Aperture too - dunno). You need to export as jpeg and then import into iphoto. The sync mechanism (in iTunes) allows you to pick certain albums to sync across.

My understanding is that smaller versions are copied across so you don't need to worry about resizing (although the current devices have a 480x320 screen).
 
Why not just drag and drop the folder you've just imported into iPhoto? That's what I do, and also upload to Facebook from iPhoto too.
DB
 
If it's just to upload them to the iPhone, then I don't think it matters as iTunes will "optimise" the images for the device.

Edit: From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1389

What does it mean when "Optimizing for iPod" appears in iTunes and what happens if I cancel?
iTunes creates TV-quality versions of your photos and stores them in a database on your computer. This makes it much faster when you add new photos to your iPod later. If you cancel this optimization, the photos are not added to the iPod.
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In to iPhoto I either put full sized JPEGS or 800pix watermarked images, but as said iTunes compresses for iPhone/iPod.

DB
 
I have got an export preset called "iPhone" which resizes the images to 480px on the longest side and saves them in a folder called "iPhone pics", iTunes has been set to import all photos from "iPhone pics" to my phone. Simples.
 
Personally I like to use "the cloud" to do this type of stuff. For example, uploading the photos to Flickr and using the Flickr app or web site, or something like Dropbox works quite well with photographs as well.

You can also email the photographs to yourself, and then save the photos to your library.
 
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