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Migrate Apple Photos library to Lightroom

Migrate Apple Photos library to Lightroom - Lightroom Tutorial

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Migrate Apple Photos library to Lightroom

- It's possible to also migrate your photo library from Mac to Lightroom. However keep in mind that all the images you migrate need to be prepared a little bit more than the Adobe migration. Let me show you, start by launching photos for Mac, then go to your preferences. There's a couple things that are important here, and this is the ability to have the photos actually downloaded. So what you'll want to choose here is you'll need to select the option labeled download originals to this Mac. Now I'm on a laptop and my cloud library is very big. So I'm not going to actually do this step. But if you were to do this migration, you have to actually pull all the data down to your machine. So make sure you have enough storage. You don't want to try to run this process with cloud images because it will skip them. If they're not stored locally, Lightroom can't see them to import them. Additionally you can go ahead and make sure…

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