Edit photos in Lightroom for mobile (iOS)

• Generative Remove is currently available as Early Access in Lightroom.
• Heal panel in Lightroom has been renamed to Remove.

On your iPhone or iPad, Select Lightroom or Edits view and tap a photo to edit in Loupe view. You now have the ability to select and work in the following panels:

• Actions
• Presets
  
• Crop
• Edit
• Masking
• Remove

Edit

Precisely edit the photo with various slider controls, such as White Balance, Temperature, Exposure, Contrast, Blur and more, at your fingertips.

Apply Auto settings

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap the Auto icon at the left of the stacked panel to have Lightroom automatically apply the best edits for these slider controls in your photos: Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Saturation, and Vibrance.

The Auto settings feature in Lightroom uses Adobe Sensei to intelligently apply adjustments based on a photo’s light and color characteristics.

• Additionally, the Auto settings feature also includes the ability to enhance the adjustments of the photo.
• When you capture an HDR image using the in-app camera, Lightroom for mobile (iOS) automatically applies Auto settings to your processed photo.

Adjust the tonal range of a photo

Light: Adjust the overall tonal range of your image and have the ability to edit and share in HDR.

Fine-tune the tonal range using the Tone Curve

The Curve graph in the Light menu represents changes made to the tonal range of a photo.

(iPhone) In the Edit panel in Loupe view, tap Light >  Curve icon to view the tone curve graph overlay over the photo.

(iPad) In the Edit panel menu in loupe view, tap Light accordion, then tap Curve.

The horizontal axis represents the original tone values (input values), with black on the left and progressively lighter values toward the right. The vertical axis represents the changed tone values (output values), with black on the bottom and lighter values progressing to white at the top. Use the tone curve to tweak the tone adjustments you make to a photo. Tone curve automatically adapts and expands when HDR mode is on, giving you greater control of the image.

You can also choose to make adjustments to individual points on the tone curve in the Red, Green, or Blue channels individually, or all three channels at once.

• Tap to add a point or double-tap to remove it.
• Drag a point to edit the image.

HDR optimization

You can edit and share images in High Dynamic Range (HDR). To enable HDR, Tap Edit > Light and toggle the Edit in HDR mode option. View HDR optimization in Lightroom for mobile (iOS) to learn more.

Adjust color in your photo

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, the Color menu provides you controls to do the following:

• White Balance refers to the color created in your photo from the temperature of your light source. For example, a noonday sun will cast a very warm yellow color whereas some light bulbs will cast a very cool blue color in your photo. Set White Balance by choosing a preset option or specifying a neutral area in the photo with the White Balance selector.
• Fine-tune the white balance using the Temp and Tint controls. Temp or Temperature sets how yellow/warm or blue/cool your photo looks. Tint, on the other hand, sets how green or magenta your photo is.
• Adjust the color saturation (vividness) using the Vibrance and Saturation controls. Vibrance increases the intensity of muted colors, whereas Saturation increases the intensity of all colors in your photo.
• Black and White photography is a favourite tool of photographers to help viewers dive into the details of a photo. Convert the photo to Black & White using the B&W option.
• Fine-tune individual colors using the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance (HSL) sliders. Hue adjusts the tone of each individual color, and Saturation adjusts the amount of gray in a color, thus making it more muted or bright. Luminance helps adjust the amount of white in a color to make it brighter or darker. Use the Target Adjustment tool to adjust a particular color in a photo. Tap and drag on the image to change the color range under your fingertip.
• Color mix lets you fine-tune or change a selected color. Pick a color tone and tap the Color mix icon to fine-tune individual colors using the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance sliders.
  
• Starting with Lightroom for mobile (iOS) version 6.0, you can adjust the colors of shadows, mid-tones, and highlights using the Color Grading sliders. There is also a Global slider with which you can adjust the overall colors in the photo without affecting the settings of shadows, midtones, and highlights. Furthermore, you can adjust the Luminance, Blending, and Balance of the colors for shadows, mid-tones, and highlights using their respective sliders.
  

Lens Blur

Lens blur allows you to add a creative touch to a photo with just one tap. Lens blur lets you add depth to a photo and achieve a creative look. Not only this, you can also add a portrait look to a photo even when it's not captured in portrait mode. Lens blur works best with a clear subject, foreground, and background.

To enable Lens blur, tap Edit > Blur and select the bokeh effect you want to apply. You can adjust the intensity and focal depth in an image easily. View Lens blur in Lightroom for Mobile (iOS) to learn more.

Apply effects on your photo

Apply Noise Reduction and sharpen your photo

In the Detail panel in Lightroom for mobile (iOS), you can sharpen your photo to enhance edge definition and bring out details in the photo.

Photos taken with high ISO speeds can have noticeable noise, you can reduce the image noise by removing the extraneous visible artefacts that degrade image quality. Use the adjustment sliders within the Sharpening, Noise, and Color noise sections of the Detail panel to enhance the image.

Correct common camera lens flaws

Select Edit > Optics in Lightroom for mobile (iOS) to correct different types of defects at certain focal lengths, f-stops, and focus distances. You can automatically correct these lens distortions using the Optics option.

Chromatic aberration appears as a color fringe along the edges of objects. It is caused by the failure of the lens to focus different colors to the same spot, aberrations in sensor microlenses, and by flare.

Chromatic Aberration: Turn on to automatically correct blue-yellow and red-green fringes in your image.  

Camera lenses can exhibit different types of defects at certain focal lengths, f-stops, and focus distances.  

Enable Lens Correction: Turn on to apply lens correction on your photo.

Work with Profiles on your photo

Profiles allow you to control how colors and tonality are rendered in your photos. They are intended to serve as a starting point or foundation for making image edits.

Apply profiles

Profiles allow you to control how colors and tonality are rendered in your photos. They are intended to serve as a starting point or foundation for making image edits.

Applying a profile on your photo does not change or overwrite the value of other edit control sliders. Therefore, you can make edits to your photos as you like and then choose to apply a profile on top of your edited image.

To browse and apply profiles, do the following:

Add a profile to Favorites

To add a profile to your Favorites profile group, press-and-hold the profile's thumbnail. If the profile is currently selected, you can also tap the gray star icon appearing at the upper-right corner of the profile thumbnail.   

The white star icon at the upper-right corner of the profile thumbnail indicates a favorite profile.

Adaptive Profiles

The Adaptive profiles help with image-adaptive adjustments in color, tone, and contrast of raw and DNG images. 

Apply Presets on your photo

A Preset allows you to predetermine the positions of all or selected sliders and apply them to your photo. Also, you can edit a photo to your liking and save that exact combination of slider positions to apply to other photos.

For a detailed walkthrough of the Presets panel, learn how to apply presets in Lightroom on mobile (iOS).

Crop photos

The Crop and geometry tools help you refine framing and correct alignment. Use Upright Guide mode to fix perspective, Straighten to level the horizon, and Flip or Rotate to adjust orientation, ensuring your images look balanced and properly composed.

For a detailed walkthrough of the Presets panel, learn how to crop and fix your images. 

Masking

Edit specific parts of your photo with greater precision and more creative control. AI-powered features like Select Subject, Select Sky and Select Background help you automatically select a subject or sky in a photo so you can make adjustments to that selection quickly. Bring your imagination to life by using masking tools like Brush, Linear and Radial gradient, Color range, Luminance range, and Depth range tools.

For a detailed walkthrough of the Masking panel, learn how to apply Mask in Lightroom for iOS.

Copy and paste edits

Copy edits that you've applied to a photo and paste them to multiple selected photos. You can also choose which edit settings you want to copy from a photo.

Create edit versions

Versions help you to quickly save different edits of the same photo so that you can experiment with editing and compare the different versions easily. To create a Version:

Send photos to Photoshop on the iPad

iOS Device Compatibility

Available on iOS devices with a RAM capacity of 4 GB or more:

• iPhone XS/XS MAX and newer (excluding iPhone XR and SE2)
• iPad 10th Gen and newer
• iPad Air 4th Gen and newer
• iPad Mini 6th Gen and newer
• iPad Pro 2nd Gen and newer

You can now import or export a single XMP preset or multiple XMP presets in a zip file.