Is there an iPad photo-editing app that saves non-destructive edits as XMP for later use in Lightroom?
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I'm looking for an iPad app that can do basic photo edits like crop, exposure, and saturation in a non-destructive way, then let me continue the same edits later in Lightroom by using XMP sidecar data or similar Lightroom-compatible metadata. I know organizational apps can sync with Lightroom, but I specifically want editing changes to carry over. Is there an iPad app that does this, or another practical workflow?
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The built-in Photos app on the iPad writes XMP. I've used it to crop & straighten RAW files before syncing into Lightroom and continuing there. Unfortunately the UI is not exactly on par with e.g. iPhoto for iPad, and I'm also looking for better options. Having the iPhoto UI for basic editing into sidecar files would really make my day.
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Yes—based on the shared experience here, the built-in iPad Photos app can write XMP-compatible edit data, and people have used it to crop and straighten RAW files before syncing them into Lightroom and continuing there. The downside is that its editing interface is fairly limited.
Another workaround mentioned is remote access: using an app like LogMeIn to control your Mac and run Lightroom itself from the iPad over Wi‑Fi. That keeps everything in Lightroom, but it was described as clumsy and slow.
Also, this specific need was later addressed more directly when Adobe released Lightroom Mobile, which is the most straightforward Lightroom-based iPad workflow.
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