It's a nice little palette size monitor that works just great. I can run the Luna Display app on my iPhone and turn it into a second monitor. If I want a lot of room to edit in I can have all my palettes off screen and buy myself a lot of screen real estate. On a laptop this can be particularly useful because laptop screens are smaller. And what's particularly cool about that is for Photoshop I can set up a screen over here and move all of my palettes off to my second screen giving me more work space. So why am I showing you this today? From a photography standpoint this is great because it means if I'm used to working with a dual monitor situation at home, now when I'm in the field I can have that again. It may not be as smooth as what I would have with a dedicated second monitor but wow, this is completely usable. You can see some little blocky artifacts around there. So I'm gonna pick this up and drag it over here and it is a full on working Mac monitor. I've got the faded menu bar here, well I had the faded menu bar here, that shows that this is a second display. So, both of these are plugged in and if you look at my displays here, if you're used to using a second display on your Mac then this should look familiar. It's cool having wireless cause it means you can carry the iPad around. If you run into that situation you can actually just plug a lightening cable into your iPad and connect it to your Mac, it'll work fine. Now, I've tried using this in hotel rooms sometimes and it hasn't worked and on the Luna Display website it says that sometimes public WiFi doesn't work. Both devices have to be on the same WiFi network for this to work. So I'm gonna take this and plug this into a USB-C port on my Mac here and I'm gonna launch Luna Display on my Mac and I'm gonna launch Luna Display on my iPad. And what this does is let me turn my iPad into a full on second monitor for my computer. It also comes in a mini display port version. Now, the people that make Astropad have made a piece of hardware called The Luna Display. It's an essential part of my Photoshop workflow. A combination Mac/iPad piece of software that lets you use your iPad as a pressure sensitive drawing tablet, like a Wacom Intous screen. But I'm talking about something that we've covered here before at The Practicing Photographer and that is Astropad. I feel like there is an essential Photoshop editing utility that not enough people are using. It's just that this particular thing is only made for the Mac, although the company is talking about releasing a Windows version so you might want to watch this anyway. I don't think you're using inferior products. I'm sorry Windows users, I don't hate you.
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