Get started with Photoshop Express on Android

Use your mobile device to edit photos like a pro using Adobe Photoshop Express.  Explore innovative features like Looks, Adjustments, Heal, Reshape, and more that let you create collages skillfully.  

Get started with Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop Express is available on the Google Play Store app. Select the badge to download and install the app. 

Photoshop Express Discover

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Select and edit photos

Open the app and select a photo that you want to work with. The first screen displays photos from your device's memory.

Alternatively, to select photos, choose Photo Editor from the home screen, select All Photos, and then select the Camera   icon. 

Make your photos stand out with various adjustment and correction options. Choose any photo from your device or Creative Cloud to start making edits.

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 Auto Enhance, select   in the top panel of the screen.

Apply Looks

Photoshop Express allows you to apply instant filters from a variety of Looks. You can choose from a range of eye-catching effects and control their intensity. Select your desired effect to apply it and adjust its intensity using the slider.

You can also create and save your customized Looks. To make your customized filter, select  Add in the Looks panel, type a name, and select SAVE LOOK.

Apply Overlays

Photoshop Express introduces a wide range of Overlay effects for your photos, such as Light Leaks, Raindrops, Paper, Cosmos, Watercolor, and so on. You can turn simple images into vibrant and unique pictures.

Crop, Rotate, and Transform your photos

The first step in editing your photo is to set it to the desired size. Select   to crop, straighten, rotate, and flip your photos. This feature helps users to choose the aspect ratio of the image according to any social media platform or customize their photo. Rotate it to any degree and fix the perspective with four different options.  

Set the Aspect ratio of your photos

You can also crop and set the aspect ratio of your photo to different sizes such as Free Size, Original, Device, 1:1, and so on. To set the aspect ratio of your photo:

Rotate your photos

You can rotate, straighten, and flip your photos using the Rotate tab of Photoshop Express. You can also flip it horizontally or vertically in any direction. 

Transform your photos

Photoshop Express provides four perspective correction options - Vertical, Horizontal, and two auto modes for Full Auto and Balanced Auto. To fix the perspective in your photos:

Generative AI options allow access to different AI features like Generative Art, Text to image, Remove objects, Insert objects, and Expand images.

Insert Objects

Resize your photos

The image resize options will scale down photos to the selected long edge while preserving the photo's current crop ratio. Scaling is applied to exported, saved, and shared photos.

Add Text

To add text through Photoshop Express, you can choose from a list of text options called Text Styles. You have the option to either use your own text or choose any text template available on the panel. Create memes and posters by adding Text styles to your photos and collages.

Correct Red eye

Select Eyes   to correct red eyes and pet eyes.

Add Borders

Select Borders   to add a border to your photo.

Remove Blemishes

Select the Overlays tool to add overlay effects to your photo. 

Enhance your photos with other adjustments

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 your photo's dark and light areas. A high value on the slider can make your photo pop by increasing the difference in lightness and darkness.

Highlights: The brightest parts in a photo. You can adjust the slider to control the 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 the details of shadows. A higher value of the slider gives more details in the shadow.

Whites Controls: This 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, including white parts.

Blacks Controls: The darkest areas in a photo and have a wider range of tonal values and effects
than Shadows.

Temperature: Gives your photo a warm (sunny) look or a cool (winter) look.

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. It 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: This noise disturbs the brightness of colored pixels. Adjust the slider to fix this type of noise.

Reduce Color Noise: This noise is present when multi-colored pixels appear as flat colors. Adjust the slider to fix this type of noise.

Add watermark

You can add your desired image or text as a watermark to your photo in Photoshop Express. 

Disable a Watermark

To disable or remove a watermark from all photos, remove the custom image or custom text added as a watermark under    > Preferences > Watermark.

Apply Blur effect to photos

In Photoshop Express, you can find Blur in the Selection Tool 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

To apply Radial Blur, follow these steps:

To apply Full Blur, follow these steps:

Make collages

Photoshop Express allows you to create and share collages. Select the photos that you want to frame in a collage. Use one of the layout styles in the bottom panel of the screen. 

The collage features include:

Aspect ratio Tap the Aspect ratio icon to set the aspect ratio of your collage.

Change Layout Tap the layout icon to choose from grid, freeform, and shapes layouts.

Edit and replace photos Tap the edit icon to replace or delete any photo in your collage. To swap photos, long-press any photo to drag-and-drop it on any other cell. To edit a photo, tap the edit icon.

Apply Style Tap the Style transfer icon to apply quick styles to your collage.

Add text Tap 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, easily pan, zoom, or rotate, and also adjust the placement of the text.

Add sticker Tap 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 Tap the border icon to apply borders and adjust inner and outer borders. You can also add colors to borders.

Add background patterns Tap the background icon to add background styles. You can choose from various available patterns, colors, and gradients.

Share your work

Quickly share your work on Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and through text messages. To share your work, check the upper-right corner of the screen, select the share icon, and select your preferred option to share.

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:

Work with other Adobe apps

Connect to Adobe Creative Cloud, Lightroom, and Creative Cloud Library from within Photoshop Express. Follow the steps below to connect with other Adobe apps:

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