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Last updated on
Oct 30, 2023
- Photoshop Express User Guide
- Introduction
- Quick Actions
- Reshape
- Combine Photos
- Collage
- Apply Settings
- Discover
Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop Express on iOS devices.
Adobe Photoshop Express is a free mobile app for making quick, powerful, and easy photo edits and creating collages. Apply instant filters called Looks, choose from an array of adjustment and correction options to touch up your photos, and instantly share them on social media.
Get started
Adobe Photoshop Express is available on iOS in App Store. Download and install the app by clicking the badge below:
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View and select photos
Launch the app and select the photo that you want to work with. The first screen displays photos from your device's memory.
Alternatively, you can click a photograph using the app and work with it right away. To do this choose Capture from the Home screen.
Make your photos look their fabulous best with a variety of adjustments and corrections. To make edits to your photos, choose Edit from the Home screen.
Themes
Photoshop Express provides you with various themes that you can apply to your images. You can choose from a wide range of themes and customize the text.
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You can also create and save your customized Themes. To do this, Select Add in the My Themes panel, type a name, and select Save Theme.
Apply Looks
Photoshop Express allows you to apply instant filters called Looks. You can choose from a range of eye-catching effects and control their intensity. Select your desired effect to apply and adjust its intensity using the slider.
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You can also create and save your customized Looks. To do this, tap Add in the My Looks panel, type a name, and select Save Look.
Learn more about how to apply looks by choosing from a range of eye-catching effects.
Make 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 the dark and light areas in your photo. A high value on the slider can make your photo pop out by increasing the difference in lightness and darkness.
Highlights The brightest parts in a photo. You can adjust the slider to control 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 details of shadows. A
higher value of the slider gives more details in the shadow.
Whites 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 along with white parts.
Blacks Controls the darkest areas in a photo and has a wider range of tonal values and effect than Shadows.
Temperature Gives a warm (sunny) look or a cool (winter) look to your photo.
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. This 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 Luminance noise disturbs the brightness of colored pixels. Adjust the slider to fix this type of noise.
Reduce Color Noise Color noise is present when multi-colored pixels appear as flat color. Adjust the slider to fix this type of noise.
Learn more about how to quickly give your image a whole new look.
Apply Blur effect to photos
In Photoshop Express, you can find Blur in the Adjustments 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
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Move the circular mask to the desired region. Adjust the circles to apply no blur, feather, and blur to desired regions in the photo.
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Move the slider to adjust the intensity of Blur. You can also use the toggle to change the blurred regions in the photo.
You can also use the toggle to change the blurred regions in the photo.
Blur with toggle off in Radial Blur Blur with toggle off in Radial Blur Blur with toggle on in Radial Blur Blur with toggle on in Radial Blur
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Select the Full option.
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Move the slider to adjust the intensity of Blur.
Full Blur applied to a photo Full Blur applied to a photo
Crop
Click 
to crop, straighten, rotate, and flip your photos. You can also transform and fix perspective using this option.
With Photoshop Express rotate an image by turning it left or right or flipping it vertically or horizontally.
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Select the Crop tool.
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Select Rotate.
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Turn an entire image right or left or flip horizontally or vertically.
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Use the sliding scale to rotate your image.
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Select Save .
Photoshop Express provides four perspective correction options - Full Auto, Balanced Auto, Vertical Skew, and Horizontal Skew.
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Select the Crop tool.
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Tap Transform.
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Use the slider or Auto option to fix the perspective in your photo.
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Select Save .
Add text
You can choose from a list of text options called Text styles to add text. Create memes and posters by adding Text styles to your photos and collages. You can adjust the text opacity using the slider, add text color, quickly pan, zoom, or rotate, and adjust the text placement.
Alternatively, you can add text by selecting Add Text.
Correct Eyes
This feature is currently available in UK and Australia regions only.
You can copy eyes from a photo and use it to replace a pair of eyes on another photo. Open the photo with eyes that you want to edit, click Replace Eyes, and tap the face. You can then choose the reference photo from where you want to copy the eyes.
For better results, select photos that are clicked in similar conditions such as lighting, zoom levels, and angles.
Red eye is a common issue that occurs when your camera's flash illuminates your photo subject's retina. You’ll see it more often when taking pictures in a darkened room because the subject’s iris is wide open. Select 
to correct red eyes and pet eyes in a click.
The Pet Eye tool enables you to remove the reddish glow in the eyes due to the reflection of light (resulting from low ambient light or the use of a flash). For animals, the eyes glow white, green, red, or yellow, and the often-used red-eye removal tools may not fix the effect correctly.
Add borders
Click 
to add a border to your photo.
Remove blemishes
Click 
to remove spots, dirt, and dust from your photos with a single touch.
If you don't receive your desired result, re-tap to view different results on each tap.
Experiment with different styles using Makeup Transfer and share a new look. Photoshop Express lets you transfer makeup within your image in just one tap.
Drag the slider to view the before and after image
To transfer makeup, do the following:
You can cut out a part or multiple parts of a picture to isolate what you need. For example, you may want to isolate the object from the background. To cutout and select objects, do the following:
Learn more about how to create simple cutouts of an object on a plain background.
Make collages
Photoshop Express allows you to create gorgeous and share-worthy collages in a single tap. Select the photos that you want to work with and use one of the layout styles in the bottom panel of the screen. These collage layouts are intelligently created using image metadata, such as geolocation and time.
To create a collage:
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On the first screen after launch of the app, select the Collage tab.
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Select the desired photos. You can combine up to nine photos in a single collage.
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Select Next.
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Choose the desired layout style and click
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To save the collage to your phone memory, select
in the screen's upper-right corner and select Save.
The collage features include:
Change Layout Select the layout icon to choose from grid, freeform, and shape layouts.
Aspect ratio Select the Aspect ratio icon to set the aspect ratio of your collage.
Edit and replace photos Select the edit icon to replace or delete any image in your collage. To swap photos, long-press any photo to drag and drop it on any other cell. To edit a photo, select the edit icon.
Apply Effects Select the Style transfer icon to apply quick styles to your collage.
Add background Select the background icon to add background styles. You can choose from various available patterns, colors, and gradients.
Add text Select 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, quickly pan, zoom, rotate, and change the text placement.
Add sticker Select 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 Select the border icon to apply borders and adjust inner and outer borders. You can also add colors to the borders.
Add Animation Select the animation to apply it to the collage from various animations given.
Filters
This feature is currently available in UK, Singapore, South Africa, and Canada only.
The selfie camera in Photoshop Express uses real time portrait segmentation, depth estimation, lens blur, and tablet matting. This allows you to embellish your selfies and use attractive filters on the move.
You can use the following filters:
- Portrait – It applies the depth of field effect which blurs the background.
- Pop Color- It highlights selected parts of your photo and keeps them in full color while the rest of the photo turns black and white.
- B&W- It highlights the background of your photo and keeps it in full color and converts your body to black and white.
- Motion- The Motion Blur filter provides a linear movement feel/effect.
- Zoom- It makes the photo fade towards the center and gives the effect of a zooming in/out of a photo.
Tattoos
Photoshop Express uses 3D face modelling and material paints to create realistic tattoos. You can place your desired tattoo at your preferred positon by zooming and panning around the photo. The captured selfie can then be further edited in Editor or you can create a collage with it.
Preferences
Resize your photos
The image resize options will scale photos down to the selected long edge, while preserving the photo's current crop ratio. Scaling is applied to exported/saved and shared photos.
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Go to Preferences in App settings.
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Tap Image Resize in the Share Settings category.
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Select any of the size options. You can also use custom size slider or more options.
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Select Save .
Add a watermark
You can add your desired image or text as a watermark to your photo:
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Log in to your Creative Cloud account, if you're not already logged in.
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Select App Settings > Preferences > Watermark.
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To add a photo of your choice, click Add image and select the photo you want to add as a watermark.
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To add text, click Add text and save the text you want to add as a watermark.
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You can use the slider to adjust the opacity of your watermark.
- To disable or remove a watermark, swipe the photo preview displayed on the Share screen to get the photo without the watermark.
- To disable or remove a watermark from all photos, remove the custom image or custom text added as a watermark under App Settings > Preferences.
Learn more about how to apply custom text or logo overlay information as the watermark.
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:
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Select App Settings > Preferences > JPEG Quality.
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Change the Quality slider value.
Specify your photo quality in Photoshop Express Specify your photo quality in Photoshop Express
Other enhanced features
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, click 
in the top panel of the screen.
On iOS, you can allow Photoshop Express to automatically apply Auto Enhance each time you open a photo. To do this, deselect Disable Auto Enhance in Preferences.
You can allow Photoshop Express to automatically apply Auto Enhance each time you open a photo. To do this, deselect Disable Auto Enhance in Preferences.
Correct lens issues
The Lens correction tool in Photoshop Express helps fix lens issues such as distortion, chromatic aberration, vignette, and perspective. The lens corrections are applied based on your lens model because each lens is uniquely designed.
You can select Enable Lens Correction to apply lens corrections and fix these lens issues. The toggle for Enable Lens Correction remains disabled for photos that do not have any lens issues.
To learn how to correct lens issues, see Lens correction.
Share your work
Quickly share your work on Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and through text messages. To do this, in the upper-right corner of the screen. Click and select your preferred option to share.
Multi-share option
You can quickly share to multiple destinations that include Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Flicker, at once. To simultaneously share to the destinations of your choice, enable the toggle button of the destinations where you want to share and then click Save & Share at the upper-right corner of the screen. You can also tap a destination name if you want to share to that particular destination only.
Non-destructive save
You can overwrite your photos while sharing instead of creating a copy. You can change this setting in Preferences. Select App settings > Preferences > Sharing Settings and deselect Save as copy.
Work with other Adobe apps
Connect to Creative Cloud, Lightroom, and CC Library from within Photoshop Express. To do this:
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In the upper-right corner of the screen, click
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Select the desired option to connect with in the Send To section.
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Log in with your Adobe ID, Google, or Facebook account and follow the on-screen instructions to connect to your desired app.
Join the conversation
Visit the Photoshop Express community to be inspired and get answers to top questions.
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