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Last updated on
Oct 29, 2024
- Photoshop Express User Guide
- Introduction
- Quick Actions
- Combine Photos
- Collage
- Apply Settings
- Discover
Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop Express on iPhone and iPad. Edit your photos and share your edits across social media.
Adobe Photoshop Express is a free mobile app for quick, powerful, and easy photo edits and collages. It allows you to apply instant filters, choose from an array of adjustment and correction options to touch up your photos, and instantly share them on social media.
Get started with Photoshop Express
Adobe Photoshop Express is available on iOS in App Store. Download and install the app by clicking the badge below:
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Select the Download icon next to Photoshop Express .
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Select Open.
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Sign in with your Adobe ID, Apple ID, Facebook, or Google account.
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Install the app and select the photo that you want to work with. The first screen displays photos from your device's memory.
You can also select a photograph using the app and work with it. To do this, choose Camera from the Home screen.
You can enhance your photos with various adjustments and corrections. Choose Photo Editor & Retouch from the Home screen to edit your photos.
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Themes
Photoshop Express provides you with various themes that you can apply to your images. You can choose from a wide range of themes and customize the text.
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You can also create and save your customized Themes. To do this, Select Add Custom in the My Themes panel, type a name, and select Save Theme.
Photoshop Express allows you to apply instant filters called Looks. You can choose from a range of eye-catching effects and control their intensity. Select your desired effect to apply and adjust its intensity using the slider.
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You can also create and save your customized Looks. To do this, select Add Custom in the My Looks panel, type a name, and select Save Look.
Learn more about how to apply looks by choosing from a range of eye-catching effects.
You can use the following adjustment options to enhance your photo:
Exposure The amount of light in which the photo was captured. You can adjust the slider to make your photo look dark or light.
Contrast The difference between the brightness of the dark and light areas in your photo. A high value on the slider can make your photo pop out by increasing the difference in lightness and darkness.
Highlights The brightest parts in a photo. You can adjust the slider to control details of highlights. A
lower value of the slider gives more details in highlights.
Shadows The darkest part in a photo. You can adjust the slider to control details of shadows. A
higher value of the slider gives more details in the shadow.
Whites Controls the brightest areas in a photo and has a wider tonal range than Highlights. Adjust the slider to change the overall brightness of your photo along with white parts.
Blacks Controls the darkest areas in a photo and has a wider range of tonal values and effect than Shadows.
Temperature Gives a warm (sunny) look or a cool (winter) look to your photo.
Tint Adds green and magenta tint to your photos.
Vibrance Improves lower-saturated colors with less effect on the higher-saturated colors. Adjust the slider to boost colors in your photo without making it look harsh.
Saturation Adjust the slider to saturate all colors in your photo equally and enhance its colors.
Clarity Adjust the slider to add depth to an image by increasing local contrast. This can bring out details and textures in your photo.
Dehaze Removes atmospheric haze from photos. Adjust the slider to remove fog or enhance fog in your photo.
Sharpen Enhances contrast between specific pixels. Adjust the slider to make your photo look crisp.
Reduce Luminance Noise Luminance noise disturbs the brightness of colored pixels. Adjust the slider to fix this type of noise.
Reduce Color Noise Color noise is present when multi-colored pixels appear as flat color. Adjust the slider to fix this type of noise.
Learn more about how to quickly give your image a whole new look.
In Photoshop Express, you can find Blur in the Adjustments panel. You can choose from two Blur options:
- Radial Blur Applies blur to specific regions in a photo
- Full Blur Applies blur to the complete photo
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Move the circular mask to the desired region. Adjust the circles to apply no blur, feather, and blur to desired regions in the photo.
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Move the slider to adjust the intensity of Blur.
The original image The original image The blurred image The blurred image Note:Select the toggle button next to the slider to blur in or out.
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Select the Full option.
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Move the slider to adjust the intensity of Blur.
Select crop to crop, straighten, rotate, and flip your photos. You can also transform and fix perspective using this option.
With Photoshop Express rotate an image by turning it left or right or flipping it vertically or horizontally.
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Select the Crop tool.
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Drag the sliding scale to rotate your image.
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Select Save .
Photoshop Express provides four perspective correction options - Full Auto, Balanced Auto, Vertical Skew, and Horizontal Skew.
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Select the Crop tool.
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Tap Transform.
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Select the perspective and use the slider to fix it in your photo.
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Select Save .
You can add text by choosing from a list of options. By adding text styles to your photos and collages, you can create memes and posters. You can also adjust the text opacity using the slider, add text color, quickly pan, zoom, or rotate, and adjust the text placement.
Alternatively, you can add text by selecting Add Text.
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This feature is currently available in the UK and Australia regions only.
You can copy eyes from a photo and use them to replace a pair of eyes on another photo. Open the photo with the eyes that you want to edit, select Replace Eyes, and select the face. You can then choose the reference photo from where you want to copy the eyes.
For better results, select photos clicked in similar conditions, such as lighting, zoom levels, and angles.
Red eye is a common issue when your camera's flash illuminates your photo subject's retina. You’ll see it more often when taking pictures in a darkened room because the subject’s iris is wide open. Select to correct red eyes and pet eyes.
The Pet Eye tool enables you to remove the reddish glow in the eyes due to the reflection of light (resulting from low ambient light or the use of a flash). For animals, the eyes glow white, green, red, or yellow, and the often-used red-eye removal tools may not fix the effect correctly.
Select to add a border to your photo.
Heal
Select to remove spots, dirt, and dust from your photos with a single touch.
If you don't receive your desired result, re-tap to view different results.
You can edit videos or make videos from the photos.
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On the home screen, select the Video icon.
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Open the video from your gallery or select up to nine photos to create a video.
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Select Next.
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Edit the video and select Save .
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Generative AI options allow access to different AI features like Text to image, Generative Fill, and Generative Expand.
Generative Fill
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On the Photoshop Express homescreen, select Generative AI.
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Select Generative Fill and then select a photo to edit.
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Highlight the area in the photo and select Replace.
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Describe the photo you want to insert in the highlighted area and select Generate.
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Select to save the photo.
Experiment with different styles using Makeup transfer and share a new look. Photoshop Express lets you transfer makeup within your image in just one tap.
Drag the slider to view the before and after image
To transfer makeup, do the following:
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Select Save .
You can cut out a part or multiple parts of a picture to isolate what you need. For example, you may want to isolate the object from the background. To cutout and select objects, do the following:
Learn more about how to create simple cutouts of an object on a plain background.
Make collages
Photoshop Express allows you to create gorgeous and share-worthy collages. Select the photos you want to work with and use one of the layout styles in the bottom panel of the screen. These collage layouts are intelligently created using image metadata, such as geolocation and time.
To create a collage:
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On the home screen, select the Collage icon.
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Select the desired photos. You can combine up to nine photos in a single collage.
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Select Next.
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Choose the desired thumbnail to open the layout of the collage.
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Adjust the images in the collage and select to save.
The collage features include:
Change Layout Select the layout icon to choose from grid, freeform, and shape layouts.
Aspect ratio Select the Aspect ratio icon to set the aspect ratio of your collage.
Edit and replace photos Select the edit icon to replace or delete any image in your collage. To swap photos, long-press any photo to drag and drop it on any other cell. To edit a photo, select the edit icon.
Apply Effects Select the Style transfer icon to apply quick styles to your collage.
Add background Select the background icon to add background styles. You can choose from various available patterns, colors, and gradients.
Add text Select the text icon to add text. Stylize your text by choosing from the available font styles. You can adjust the text opacity using the slider, add text color, quickly pan, zoom, rotate, and change the text placement.
Add sticker Select the sticker icon to add stickers to your collage. You can pan, zoom, or rotate the sticker and place it as you desire.
Change Borders Select the border icon to apply borders and adjust inner and outer borders. You can also add colors to the borders.
Add Animation Select the animation to apply it to the collage from various animations given.
Filters
The selfie camera in Photoshop Express uses real-time portrait segmentation, depth estimation, lens blur, and tablet matting. This allows you to embellish your selfies and use attractive filters on the move. You can use various filters, such as Portrait, Pop Art, Food, Scenery, Artful, Blue Skies, and so on.
Photoshop Express uses 3D face modeling and material paints to create realistic face paints. You can place your desired face paint in your preferred position by zooming and panning around the photo. The captured selfie can then be further edited or you can create a collage.
Resize your photos
The image resize options will scale photos to the selected edge while preserving the photo's current crop ratio. Scaling is applied to exported, saved, or shared photos.
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Go to > Preferences.
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Select Image Resize in the SHARING SETTINGS category.
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Select any of the size options. You can also use custom size slider or more options.
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Select Save .
Add a watermark
You can add your desired image or text as a watermark to your photo:
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Log in to your Creative Cloud account, if you're not already logged in.
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Select > SHARING SETTINGS > Watermark.
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To add a photo of your choice, select Add Image and select the photo you want to add as a watermark.
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To add text, select Add Text and save the text you want to add as a watermark.
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You can use the slider to adjust the Size and Opacity of your watermark.
Disable a watermark
- To disable or remove the watermark from a single photo, select the watermark preview as None displayed on the Share screen.
- To disable or remove the watermark from all the photos, select > Preferences > Watermark > and select None.
Learn more about how to apply custom text or logo overlay information as the watermark.
Control JPEG quality
You can choose a quality scale to be applied to your photo while exporting or sharing the image. A 100% value gives the best result with increased file size. By default, the quality scale is set to 85%.
To change image quality:
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Select Settings > Preferences > JPEG Quality.
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Change the Quality slider value.
Auto-enhance your photos
Use Auto Enhance to adjust the exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, temperature, tint, vibrance, and clarity to auto values. To apply, select .
You can allow Photoshop Express to automatically apply Auto Enhance when you open a photo. To do this, select > Preferences > Enable Auto Enhance.
Correct lens issues
The Lens correction tool in Photoshop Express helps fix lens issues such as distortion, chromatic aberration, vignette, and perspective. The lens corrections are applied based on your lens model because each lens is uniquely designed.
You can select Enable Lens Correction to apply lens corrections and fix these lens issues. The toggle remains disabled for photos that don't have any lens issues.
To learn how to correct lens issues, see Lens correction.
Quickly share your work on Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and through text messages. To do this, in the upper-right corner of the screen, select and your preferred option to share.
Multi-share option
You can quickly share to multiple destinations, including Instagram and Facebook, at once. To simultaneously share to the destination, slide the toggle button of the destinations where you want to share and then select Save & Share.
Non-destructive save
You can overwrite your photos while sharing instead of creating a copy. You can change this setting in Preferences. Select App settings > Preferences > Save as copy and deselect Save as copy.
Connect to Lightroom and CC Library from within Photoshop Express. To do this:
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In the upper-right corner of the screen, select .
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Select the desired option to connect within the SEND TO section.
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Log in with your Adobe ID, Google, or Facebook account and follow the on-screen instructions to connect to your desired app.
Join the conversation
Visit the Photoshop Express community to be inspired and get answers to top questions.
You can also do the following, when you are logged in to Photoshop with the same ID as that in Photoshop Express:
To export a photo from Editor, tap the Photoshop icon located at the bottom of the screen.
To export a collage, tap the Photoshop icon located at the top panel of the screen.
- To export a captured photo, tap the Photoshop icon located at the bottom of the screen.
Your PSD file with the applied edits will then automatically open in Photoshop on desktop.