How to Transfer Photos from SD Card to iPad

"Hi could anyone be help? I have a bunch of photos saved on my camera SD card and now I would like to transfer these photos from SD card to iPad. What should I do? Will iTunes work for this? Or do I need to turn to some photo transfer app? Please help."  - By Howard on Apple Communities.

Photos taken with camera or camcorder would be saved in SD card. And there are times when we need to transfer photos from SD card to iPad or iPhone. What we need to do to transfer photos from SD card to iPad?

1. Transfer Photos from SD Card to iPad with iTunes

Actually, You could turn to iTunes to solve this problem. It won't be hard to transfer photos from SD card to iPad with iTunes. The below steps would show you how to do this:

1. Open iTunes on your computer and connect your iPad to computer.
2. Click your iPad under "Devices" in the left sidebar.
3. Click on the "Photos" tab and check the box "Sync Photos".
4. Select "My Pictures" option. Or if you haven’t added photos to iTunes, select "Choose Folder" and find the folder with the photos you want to transfer to your iPad, select it and click "Select Folder" to continue the process.
5. Then the folder has been loaded, click "Apply" button found at the bottom right corner.

2. Transfer Photos from SD Card to iPad without iTunes but iTransfer

Also, you could get another more convenient iOS photo transfer app to complete the photo transfer from SD card to iPad. That's iTransfer, a professional iOS data transfer app that could help you transfer data and file between iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod), iTunes and computer. To transfer photos from SD card to iPad without iTunes but iTransfer, you could follow the below steps:

1. Download and install iTransfer on your computer. 
2. Connect your iPad to computer with USB cable and SD card to computer via SD card reader.
3. Launch iTransfer and then on the left sidebar you could see your iPad library. 
4. Open "iPad > LIBRARY > Photos"  tab and then click the "Add" button to select either "Add File" or "Add Folder" option to browse and add photos directly from SD card.
5. After you choose photos to add, click the "Open" button.
6. iTransfer would start to transfer photos from SD card to iPad directly. You could view the transfer progress.

Now, the photos you've selected would be transferred to iPad immediately. You could then view photos freely on your iPad from your SD card. 

Conclusion:

Compared to iTunes, iTransfer has a big advantage - it could help you transfer data from iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod) directly back to iTunes or computer, not only purchased ones, but those you've got from other sources. That means, you could not only transfer photos from SD card to iPad, but also export photos from iPad to SD card as well. This has benefited a lot of people, and is the main reason why it is recommended here.