Edit panel in Lightroom

Drag the slider to increase or decrease the strength of the Light tool. 

This slider controls the overall brightness of a photo. Moving it right lightens the image, while moving it left darkens it.

This slider adjusts the light and dark areas. Increasing contrast using the slider creates a dramatic image, while decreasing it creates a softer look.

This slider targets the brightest areas of your photo, allowing you to brighten or darken them selectively without affecting the midtones.

This slider refines the darkest areas in a photo. Lightening shadows can recover details hidden in dark areas, while darkening them can add depth and richness.

This slider controls the pure white point of your image. Increasing it can make blown-out highlights appear whiter, while decreasing it can reduce overexposed areas.

This slider controls the black points in a photo. Increasing it deepens blacks and adds richness, while decreasing it can lift shadow detail but risk losing detail.

Select Curve to adjust individual points on the tone curve in the Red, Green, or Blue channels individually or all three channels simultaneously.

Toggle Edit in HDR Mode. To learn more, see Edit HDR photos in Lightroom on mobile.

Manually adjust the following sliders to achieve the best editing results:

• Temperature: Determines how warm or cool the colors appear in your photo. Move the slider right if the colors are too blue, or move it left if they're too yellow.
• Tint: Determines how green or purple the colors appear in your photo. Move the slider right if the colors are too green, or move it left if they're too purple.
• Vibrance: Changes the saturation in a photo without causing unpleasant color casts. Move the slider right to make colors pop without oversaturation. 
• Saturation: Controls the saturation of all colors equally. Move the slider right to boost all colors, or move it left to make your photo grayscale. 

Lightroom also allows you to adjust the color using the following options: B&W, Grading, Mix, and White Balance.

Select Edit > Color > Color Mixer icon. 

Select one of the available colors - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Aqua, Blue, Purple, and Magenta.

Adjust the following sliders to further edit the selected color:

• Hue: Adjusts the hue of the selected color.
  
• Saturation: Adjusts the saturation of the selected color.
• Luminance: Adjusts the brightness of the selected color. 

Select Edit > Color > Color Grading icon. 

Select a tonal range icon (Shadows, Midtones, Highlights)you want to adjust. Switch between these ranges by selecting the icons or swiping horizontally. 

Adjust the following:

Hue: Select and drag inside the color wheel to select a hue.

Saturation: Drag the small circle inside the wheel outward to increase saturation or inward to decrease it.

For best results, adjust:

Blending: Controls a smooth transition between the Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights. 

Balance: Controls overall emphasis between the Shadows and Highlights.

Use the following sliders to adjust the:

• Texture: Adjusts the detail in your image. Move it to the left to smooth textures and achieve a softer look. Move it to the right to accentuate textures, adding definition and depth.
  
• Clarity: Increases local contrast to help add depth and a sense of "pop" to your image. However, be cautious when using Clarity, as overdoing it can create unwanted halos around the edges.
  
• Dehaze: Removes or adds haze to your photo. Move it to the right to clear up the haze, creating a crisp and clear look. Move it to the left to add the haze, which can help create a dreamy atmosphere.
  

Drag the Amount sliders to adjust the Vignette and Grain.

• Vignette: Darkens or lightens the edges of your photo, drawing the viewer's eye toward the center. You can choose a highlight or shadow vignette depending on the desired effect.

• Grain: Adds a realistic film grain effect to your photos, mimicking the look of analog photography. This can be particularly useful for black-and-white images or adding a vintage feel. 

Drag the Sharpening slider right to enhance details with the help of advanced controls.

• Radius: Adjusts the size of sharpened details. Use lower values for fine details and higher values for larger ones. Too high can look unnatural.
• Detail: Controls how much high-frequency information is sharpened. Lower values sharpen only edges, higher values enhance textures.
• Masking: Determines where sharpening is applied. At 0, sharpening affects the entire image; at 100, it’s limited to solid edges. 

Drag the slider to adjust the detail of your image.

• Noise Reduction: Reduces luminance noise.
• Detail: Balances noise reduction and detail preservation.
• Contrast: Adjusts contrast, with higher values keeping contrast but risking noise, and lower values smoothing the image.

Drag the slider to adjust the detail of your image.

• Color Noise Reduction: Reduces color noise and adjusts the detail and smoothness.
  
• Detail: Controls the color noise threshold. Higher values protect thin, detailed color edges but may result in color speckling. Lower values remove color speckles but may result in color bleeding.
• Smoothness: Higher values apply a softened effect to the speckled color tones.

Select Remove Chromatic Aberration to apply it to an image.

Toggle Enable Lens Corrections to apply it to an image. Lens corrections, such as Distortion Correction and Lens Vignetting, are based on the specific lens used to capture the photo. The software does this by applying lens profiles. 

Change the lens profile for automatic correction. Then, select Manually Select a Profile and change your lens based on Make, Model, and Profile. 

Select the Favorites dropdown in the Profile panel to view profiles under different categories, such as Favorites, Basic, Artistic, B&W, Modern, or Vintage, to view and select the desired profile for your photo.

Adjust the profile intensity using the additional Amount slider provided when you apply any of the Basic, Artistic, B&W, Modern, or Vintage profiles.

Long press on the photo to see a Before view. 

Select the   icon in the Profiles menu and select Manage Profiles.

Toggle on the profile groups that you want to show in the Profiles menu in the Manage Profiles section and disable the ones you want hidden. 

Select  .

Select the    icon in the Profiles menu and select Import Profiles.

Select the profiles you want to import from Google Drive or any folder on your mobile. You can select individual dcp or xmp files. You can also select zip files that contain multiple dcp and xmp files. 

The imported profiles appear in the Profiles pop-up menu.