Edit photos

Select   icon to bring up the My Photos panel. You can either select Cloud or Local to bring up your photos. 

Select this option to access photos that are synced and stored in Lightroom cloud. 

Select this option to directly access photos stored locally on your device. You don't need to import or sync the images. The edits will be automatically saved once you edit the locally stored pictures in Lightroom. 

Learn more about how to access photos in Lightroom.

If you're in Photo Grid () view or Square Grid () view, select the photo that you want to edit. Now, select () icon in the toolbar at the bottom to switch to the Detail view. 

If you're already in Detail () view, select the photo that you want to edit from the filmstrip appearing at the bottom of your current selection.

To bring up the Edit panel in Detail view, select () icon at the upper-right corner. 

In the Detail () view, select a photo that you want to edit. Select () icon at the upper-right corner to view the Edit panel.

In the Edit panel, select the three-dot menu icon and select Show Histogram.

In the Histogram:

• If the upper-left clipping indicator is illuminated (the triangle in the clipping indicator is white), it implies that shadows are clipped in your photo. Click the illuminated indicator to view the shadows in your photo. The shadows are displayed as a blue overlay mask.
• If the upper-right clipping indicator is illuminated (the triangle in the clipping indicator is white), it implies that highlights are clipped in your photo. Click the illuminated indicator to view the highlights in your photo. The highlights are displayed as a red overlay mask.

Re-click the upper-left or upper-right illuminated clipping indicator to hide the respective clipping in the photo.

If you're in Photo Grid () view or Square Grid () view, select a photo that you want to edit. Now, click () icon in the toolbar at the bottom to switch to Detail view. 

If you're already in Detail () view, select a photo that you want to edit from the filmstrip appearing at the bottom of your current selection.

Click () icon at the upper-right corner to bring up the Edit panel.

In the Profile panel at the top, use the Profile pop-up menu to quickly access Adobe Raw profiles. To view other available profiles, click Browse. 

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.

Note:

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

Move the pointer over any profile to preview its effect in your photo. Click the profile to apply it to your photo. 

In the Profile panel, click Browse. 

Click the three-dot icon at the upper-right corner of the Profile panel. Then, select Import Profiles option from the pop-up menu.

In the Import Profiles dialog that appears, browse to the required path and select one or more XMP profiles. 

Click Import.

Click () icon at the upper-right corner to bring up the Edit panel.

In the Profile panel at the top, click Browse. 

Click the three-dot icon at the upper-right corner of the Profile panel. Then, select Manage Profiles option from the pop-up menu.

Under Manage, select the profile groups that you want to show in the Profile browser. Deselect the profile groups that you want to hide from the Profile browser.

Click Back to navigate back to the Profile browser.

Use the picker to select a specific color in the photo or color selector from the Color Field. A swatch of the selected color will be created next to the picker. You can create and store up to eight swatches at a time.

From the panel, refine your selection with the Hue Shift, Saturation Shift, and Luminance Shift sliders. You can view the before and after shifts in the image reflecting on the color bar below the Color Field. The original color is displayed on the first half of the bar, and the shifted color is displayed on the second half. 

The Range slider controls the range of the affected colors. You can make specific refinements to the Hue Range, Saturation Range, and Luminance Range. 

You can select Visualise Range to view only the areas affected by the current color selection. 

Select a color by dragging the color wheel. You can manually adjust the color grading using the Midtones, Shadows, and Highlights sliders. 

You can select either of the three options by choosing the specific icons from the menu bar and making precise adjustments to the required areas. 

Select Global if you wish to add a tint to the entire image. You can manually adjust the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance.

Work with Blending and Balance sliders to create a transition between Midtones, Shadows, and Highlights.

In the Optics panel, select the Enable Lens Corrections check box.

Lightroom automatically selects a matching lens profile based on the camera model, focal length, f-stop and focus distance information in your photo's metadata.

Cameras with built-in lens profile support

Lens correction for all Micro 4/3 (MFT) lenses and cameras, including Panasonic, Olympus, and other cameras (Fuji X, Leica Q, plus many point-and-shoot models from Canon) happens automatically without your interaction.

If your lens is supported automatically, Lightroom displays the message 'Built-in Lens Profile Applied' in the Optics panel. Click the info icon to view Lens Profile information.

(Optional) If Lightroom is unable to find a matching lens profile automatically or if you want to change the automatic selection, do the following:

1. Click the current lens profile to change the automatic selection or click Manually Select a Profile if Lightroom couldn't find a lens profile automatically.
2. In the Select a Lens Profile dialog box, select a Make, Model, and Profile.

The lens profiles that are available depend on whether you’re adjusting a raw or a non-raw file. For a list of supported lenses, see Supported lenses.

If desired, customize the correction applied by the profile by using the following sliders:

The default value 100 applies 100% of the distortion correction in the profile. Values over 100 apply greater correction to the distortion; values under 100 apply less correction to the distortion.

The default value 100 applies 100% of the vignetting correction in the profile. Values over 100 apply greater correction to vignetting; values under 100 apply less correction to vignetting.

In the Optics panel, select the Defringe icon at the upper-right corner to view the Defringe controls.

Depending on which hue you want to remove, select the purple or green radio button and click the Fringe Selector. 

Hover over the desired hue in the photo and click it to suppress or remove it.

Alternatively, use the Amount slider to specify how much of the hue you want to suppress or remove and the Hue slider to specify the range of the selected hue.

Select a photo.

If you're in Photo Grid () view or Square Grid () view, select a photo from which you want to copy the edit settings. 

If you're in Detail () view, you can copy the edit settings from your current photo or choose the required photo from the filmstrip appearing at the bottom of your current selection.

Copy all the edit settings from the selected photo.

To copy the current photo’s edit settings, do one of the following:

• From the menu bar, choose Photo > Copy Edit Settings.
• Press Control + C (Win) or Command + C (Mac) keys.

Choose which edit settings to copy from the selected photo.

Select one or more photos to which you want to paste the copied edit settings.

If you're in Photo Grid () view or Square Grid () view, select one or more photos to which you want to paste the edit settings. 

If you're in Detail () view, select one or more photos from the filmstrip.

Paste the copied settings.

To paste the copied edit settings to the selected photos, do one of the following:

• From the menu bar, choose Photo > Paste Edit Settings.
• Press Control + V (Win) or Command + V (Mac) keys.

Restore the photo to its original state

Do one of the following:

• From the menu bar, choose Photo > Reset To Original. 
• Press Shift + R keys.

Restore the photo to its last opened state

Do one of the following:

• From the menu bar, choose Photo > Reset To Open. 
• Press Shift + Command + R keys.

Select a local adjustment tool. You can view the respective panel. 

Make adjustments to the selected areas using these sliders in the panel:

• Temp Adjusts the color temperature of an area of the image, making it warmer or cooler. A graduated filter temperature effect can improve images captured in mixed-lighting conditions.
  
• Tint Compensates for a green or magenta color cast
• Exposure Sets the overall image brightness. Applying an Exposure local correction can achieve results similar to traditional dodging and burning.
• Contrast Adjusts image contrast, mainly affecting midtones
• Highlights Recovers detail in overexposed highlight areas of an image
• Shadows Recovers detail in underexposed shadow areas of an image
• Whites Adjusts the white points in a photo
• Blacks Adjusts the black points in a photo
• Texture 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.
• Clarity Adds depth to an image by increasing local contrast
• Dehaze Reduces or increases existing haze in a photo
• Hue Change colors in specific areas without affecting the rest of the selection. Keep Use fine adjustment selected if you're correcting minute color details such as skin tone.
  
• Saturation Adjusts the vividness of the color
• Sharpness Enhances edge definition to bring out details in the photo. A negative value blurs details.
• Noise Reduces luminance noise, which can become apparent when shadow areas are opened.
• Moiré Removes moiré artifacts or color aliasing
• Defringe Removes fringe colors along edges
• Colorize Applies a tint to the area affected by the local correction. Select the hue by clicking the color swatch. The color effect is preserved if you convert the photo to black and white. Use the toggle button to enable this slider.

Move a slider to the left to decrease the value and to the right to increase the value.

Open a photo in Detail view and apply the edits you like from the Edit panel.

Select the Versions icon in the sidebar. 

In the Versions panel, select the Named tab. This tab lets you save your own Versions. The Auto tab, on the other hand provides a list of Versions that have been automatically saved for you from each editing session.

To create a Version in the Named tab, click Create Version, enter the name, and then click Create. A Version of your latest edits is added to the Named tab of the Versions panel. You can continue to apply more edits to your photo and create several Versions this way.

To view the edits in a Version, simply hover over a Version in the Named or Auto tab to see the preview in your photo.

In the Named tab, to rename or delete a Version, click the three-dot icon.

To save an Auto Version to the Named tab, click the three-dot icon next to the Version in the Auto tab and select Save as Named Version. You can also find an option to delete the Version from the three-dot menu.