Edit photos in Lightroom for mobile (iOS)

(iPhone) In the Edit panel in loupe view, tap Light icon.

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

Adjust the tone control sliders:

Sets the overall image brightness. Adjust the slider until the photo looks good and the image is the desired brightness.  

Increases or decreases image contrast, mainly affecting midtones. When you increase contrast, the middle-to-dark image areas become darker, and the middle-to-light image areas become lighter. The image tones are inversely affected as you decrease contrast.  

Adjusts bright image areas. Drag to the left to darken highlights and recover “blown out” highlight details. Drag to the right to brighten highlights.

Adjusts dark image areas. Drag to the left to darken shadows. Drag to the right to brighten shadows and recover shadow details.

Adjusts white clipping. Drag to the left to reduce clipping in highlights. Drag to the right to increase highlight clipping. (Increased clipping may be desirable for specular highlights, such as metallic surfaces.)

Adjusts black clipping. Drag to the left to increase black clipping (map more shadows to pure black). Drag to the right to reduce shadow clipping.

(iPhone) In the Edit panel in loupe view, tap the Effects icon to view the controls.

(iPad) In the Edit panel menu in the loupe view, tap Effects accordion.

Adjust the effects sliders:

Smoothens or accentuates textured details in your photo. Move the slider to the left to smoothen details; move it to the right to accentuate details. When you adjust the Texture slider, the color or tonality does not change.

Adds depth to an image by increasing local contrast. To maximize the effect, increase the setting until you see halos near the edge details of the image, and then reduce the setting slightly.

When using this setting, it is best to zoom in to 100% or greater. To zoom in, double-tap the photo or use the outward spread gesture.

Controls the amount of haze in a photograph. Drag to the right to remove haze; drag to the left to add haze.

Applies a dark or light vignette for artistic effect to a photo. Negative values darken the corners of the photo. Positive values lighten the corners.

For related useful information, see Vignette, grain, and dehaze effects.

Adds realistic film-grain effect to your photos. Drag the slider to the right to add grain. When you add grain, you can also control the grain size and roughness using the Size and Roughness sliders respectively.  

(iPhone) In the Edit panel in the loupe view, tap Profiles icon.

• The Adobe Color profile, which is currently applied to your photo is displayed at the top of the screen.
• Tapping Adobe Raw brings up the profile groups menu.  

(iPad) In the Edit panel menu in the Loupe view, tap Browse in the Profiles panel at the top.  

(iPhone) Tap to choose any of the profile groups from the menu to view profiles available in that group.

(iPad) Expand any of the profile groups (explained below) to view the profiles available in that group.

Displays profiles that you've marked as favorite. See Add a profile to Favorites.

This profile group is available for non-raw photos only and provides two profile options - Color and Monochrome.

Note:

When you apply any of the Artistic, B&W, Modern, and Vintage profiles, Lightroom for mobile provides an additional Amount slider that allows you to control profile intensity.  

You can swipe horizontally toward right or left on the profile thumbnails to browse all the profiles available under a selected profile group.

Tap a profile to apply it to your photo.  

Tap and hold with one finger on the photo to see a Before view.

Tap the Undo or Redo icons to move back or forward in your edits, one step at a time.

Open a photo in loupe view and tap Presets.

Presets are grouped into the following tabs:

• Recommended These presets are automatically provided to you based on your photo, with the help of Adobe Sensei. The results can change with time, even for the same photo. You can choose from an array of predefined preset options like Strong, B&W, Cool, Warm, etc.
  
• Premium These presets are updated with every major release and include categories like Adaptive Presets (Portrait, Subject, Blur Background, and Sky), Portraits, Travel, Cinematic, Food, Landscape, subject-wise presets, and also include Seasonal with over 40 premium presets like winter, spring, summer and autumn to get the perfect look all year round. Click to learn more about Blur background Adaptive Presets.
  
• Yours These are all the presets that you have created or saved, as well as all the default presets included with Lightroom.

Tap and hold the photo to see how the photo looked without the preset applied.

Tap the Undo or Redo icons to reverse or move forward with your edits.

Open a photo in the Loupe view based on which you want to create a user preset. Do any one of the following:

• In the Loupe view, tap the three-dots () icon at the upper-right corner of the screen to bring up the options menu. Then, choose Create Preset.
  

• (iPhone) In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Presets icon at the bottom of the screen. Tap the three-dots () icon at the upper-right corner of the Presets pop-up screen and choose Create Preset.

• (iPad) In the Loupe view, tap the three-dots () icon at the upper-right corner of the Presets pop-up screen and choose Create Preset.

In the New Preset screen, specify the following:

Preset Name: Type the desired preset name.

Preset Group: By default, custom presets are saved in the User Presets group. You can also create a new group using the Create New Preset Group option.    

Now select which edit settings you want to save as a preset.

Click the Select pop-up menu and choose any of the following options:

• All: Selects all the edit settings groups.
• Modified: Selects only the edits settings that you've applied on the selected photo.
  
• Default: Selects the default set of edit settings. Tools, Optics, and Geometry settings are excluded by default.
• None: Deselects all the edit settings.

To manually select or deselect specific settings, tap the check box next to the edit setting groups. You can also tap the (>) icon to navigate within the edit setting group, and then choose specific settings from the submenu. For example, you can navigate within the Light settings group and then select/deselct any of the settings from the submenu - Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Tone Curve.     

After selecting the required edit settings, tap Save at the upper-right corner.

Your new preset is now available in the Presets menu.

(iPhone) In the Loupe view, tap Presets icon at the bottom of the screen.

(iPad) In the Loupe view, tap the Presets icon at the right.

In the Presets pop-up menu, locate the user preset that you want to update or delete. Tap the three-dots () icon next to that user preset and choose any of the following options:

Update With Current Settings: In the Update Preset screen, modify the edit settings to include in the user preset as necessary.

Click the Select pop-up menu and choose any of the following options:

• All: Selects all the edit settings groups.
• Default: Selects the default set of edit settings. Tools, Optics, and Geometry settings are excluded by default.
• None: Deselects all the edit settings.

To manually select or deselect specific settings, tap the check box next to the edit setting groups. You can also tap the (>) icon to navigate within the edit setting group, and then choose specific settings from the submenu. For example, you can navigate within the Light settings group and then select/deselct any of the settings from the submenu - Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Tone Curve.     

After modifying the required edit settings, tap Save at the upper-right corner.

Rename: In the Rename Preset screen, modify Preset Name as necessary.

After modifying the preset name, tap Save at the upper-right corner.

Delete: Choose this option to permanently delete the user preset from all synced devices.

(iPhone) In the Loupe view, tap Presets icon at the bottom of the screen.

(iPad) In the Loupe view, tap Presets icon at the right.

Tap the three-dots () icon at the upper-right corner of the screen and choose Manage Presets.   

In the Manage Presets screen, switch on the preset groups that you want to show in the Presets menu. Switch off the preset groups that you want to hide from the Presets menu.

Tap Done at the upper-right corner.

Open a photo in Loupe view and in the Edit panel, tap Presets.

Tap the three-dots icon at the upper-right corner in the Presets panel to bring up the options menu. 

Tap Show Partially-compatible presets to show all presets, including incompatible presets.

Select the Presets icon,  navigate to the Yours section, and navigate to the three-dot menu. 

Select the Import Presets icon and locate your downloaded XMP presets in the iOS Files. Select a zip file containing XMP presets to import multiple presets at once. 

Select the preset file, Lightroom for mobile (iOS) will import it and add it to the User Presets folder in the Yours preset tab. You can create a new folder to better organize your imported presets. 

Select the Presets icon, navigate to the Yours section, and select the preset group you want to export.

Select the three-dot menu on the top-right and select Export Presets to export the group as a zip file. If you want to export a single preset, select the three-dot menu adjacent to the preset, select Export Preset, and select Save at the desired location in iOS Files or iCloud drive. 

In the loupe view, tap Crop icon at the bottom of the screen.

The available cropping options are displayed as tiles, along the bottom of the screen. Swipe to the left or right, to view all the tiles. Tap a tile to apply the corresponding option.

Do one of the following for additional options:

• Tap the Aspect ratio tile to select one of the available cropping aspect ratios.
• Tap the Aspect Locked tile to crop without a preset aspect ratio.
• Tap Straighten tile to automatically straighten the photo.
• Tap the Rotate tile to rotate the photo clockwise by 90 degrees.
• Tap the Flip H tile flip the photo horizontally.
  Tap the Flip V tile to flip the photo vertically.
• Drag the edges and corners of the cropping guide, to change the shape and size of the crop.
• Drag the cropping wheel to crop the photo by a certain angle. You can drag the cropping wheel within the range of -45 to 45 degrees.
• Tap within the cropping guide and drag it to reposition it.
  

Tap and hold with one finger on the photo to see a Before view.

To confirm the edits, tap tick icon (iPhone)/Done (iPad).  

Select a photo with skewed geometry.

(Recommended) In the Optics panel, enable the Lens Profile Corrections option.

(iPhone) In the Crop panel in the loupe view, tap the pencil icon next to the Auto geometry icon.

(iPad) In the Edit panel menu in the Loupe view, tap Geometry accordion.

From the Upright menu, choose an option to apply the correction to the photo:

• Guided: Allows you to draw two to four guides on your photo to adjust perspective.
• Auto: Corrects both vertical and horizontal perspective while balancing the overall image, preserving as much of the visible image area as possible.
• Level: Corrects horizontal perspective, making horizontal lines parallel in the photo.
• Vertical: Corrects vertical perspective caused by tilting the camera up or down. Makes vertical lines parallel in the photo.
• Full: Combines Auto, Level, and Vertical upright modes to automatically correct perspective.
  

Cycle through the Upright modes until you find the most preferable setting.

All the Upright modes correct distortion and perspective errors. The best setting varies from one photo to another. Experiment with the modes before deciding on the best possible mode for your photo.

Guided Upright mode

If you chose the Guided Upright mode, do the following:

(Optional) While correcting the perspective of your photo, you may get white areas near the image boundaries. To remove the white area, enable the Constrain Crop option, which automatically crops the photo according to the original dimension.

Use the geometry sliders to fine-tune the perspective corrections - Distortion, Vertical, Horizontal, Rotate, Aspect, Scale, X Offset, Y Offset.

• Distortion: Corrects lens barrel distortion (straight lines appearing to bow outward) and pincushion distortion (straight lines appearing to bend inward). Move the slider to the right to correct barrel distortion in your photo; move the slider to the right to correct pincushion distortion.
• Vertical: Makes vertical lines in an image parallel. If the vertical lines are diverging at the bottom edge, move the slider to the left to push the pixels away from that edge; if the vertical lines are diverging at the top edge, move the slider to the right to push the pixels away from that edge.
• Horizontal: Makes horizontal lines in an image parallel. Move the slider to the left to push the pixels away from the right edge; move the slider to the right to push the pixels away from the left edge.
• Rotate: Rotates the image to correct for camera tilt. Move the slider to the left to rotate the image anti-clockwise; move the slider to the right to rotate the image clockwise.
• Aspect: Move the slider to the left to widen the perspective of the photo; move the slider to the right to narrow the perspective of the photo.
• Scale: Adjusts the photo scale up or down while maintaining the aspect ratio. Move the slider to the left to scale down; move the slider to the right to scale up.
• X Offset: Move the slider to the left to shift the image pixels toward left on the x-axis, leaving a white area at the right edge; move the slider to the right to shift the image pixels toward right on the x-axis, leaving a white area at the left edge.
• Y Offset: Move the slider to the left to shift the image pixels downward on the y-axis, leaving a white area at the top edge; move the slider to the right to shift the image pixels upward on the y-axis, leaving a white area at the bottom edge.
  

Open a photo in loupe view.

Tap the three-dots () icon in the upper-right corner and choose Copy Settings.

In the Copy Settings panel, select the edits that you want to copy. You can select edit setting groups such as Profile: Color, Tools, Light, among others. Optionally, tap the Select drop-down list to choose one of the following:

• All: Selects all the edit settings groups.
• Modified: Selects only the edits settings that you've modified or applied on the selected photo.
• Default: Selects the default set of edit settings. Tools and Geometry settings are excluded by default.
• None: Deselects all the edit settings.

You can also choose to select or deselect specific settings in each edit setting group. Tap the arrow icon against each edit setting group to view its specific settings.

After making the selections, tap the  icon.

In the Lightroom view select the photo(s) or album to which you want to paste the copied settings to.

Tap Paste in the bottom panel.

In the Paste Settings confirmation dialog box that appears, tap Apply.

The copied settings are then applied to the selected photos.

Open a photo and apply the desired edits.

Tap the Versions icon at the top panel.

Tap Versions to view the Orignal photo you have imported or If you have made any edits to the photo, you can view those edits under the Current section. To save the current edits as a version, tap Named > Create version.

Enter the name for the Version and tap Create. This way, you can apply different edits and save them as Versions.

Select a Version and tap the three-dot icon to rename or delete it.

In the Lightroom app on the iPad, select the desired photo and tap the Share icon.

Select Edit in Photoshop.

Make your edits in Photoshop on the iPad.

To bring the photo back to Lightroom, select Send to Lightroom in the top panel.