Last week, we learned to use the Linear and Radial Selection tools. This week, the brush allows you to apply edits to specific areas of the photo. It works well with a finger, but even better with the Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro. Here’s the instructions for all of the mysterious icons! Retouching There’s… Click to continue

Last week, we learned about the global editing sliders, which affect the entire photo. The Linear and Radial Gradient Selection modes allow you to edit specific areas of the photo, for example, to darken the sky or create an off-center vignette. Here are all the tricks you need:   Next week, we’ll take a look… Click to continue

Last week, we started editing using the Crop tool and Presets. This week, let’s learn the use the sliders themselves. The main Edit mode is broken down into a number of different sets of sliders, which you select from the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. Light includes Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites and… Click to continue

Last week, we introduced the Edit views. This week, we’ll start some basic editing using the crop tool and presets. Cropping In an ideal world, you’d have the time to make sure a photo was perfectly composed in the camera at the time of shooting. Unfortunately, few of us live in an ideal world, and… Click to continue

After discussing how to view, organize, rate and add metadata to photos, we finally get to the reason most people are using Lightroom mobile – editing! Some say that you shouldn’t edit photos on a mobile device because you can’t calibrate the screen, and that’s certainly true, but as long as you bear in mind… Click to continue

Last week, we used the first of the Loupe views – Rate & Review – to add star ratings and flags to the photos. Once you’ve chosen your best photos, you may want to add additional metadata, such as a Title or Caption. To do so, tap the pop-up at the top of the screen… Click to continue

When you tap on a photo in Grid view, which we discussed last week, you’re taken to the Detail view. The Detail view displays one photo at a time. There are four different Detail views – Rate & Review, Info, Edit and Activity – and you switch between them using the pop-up at the top… Click to continue

Last week, we looked at the Organize view. This week, tap on the Lightroom Photos collection to open the Grid view. Here are all of the tips and tricks you need to know: In the Grid view, you can: View thumbnails. Segment thumbnails by hour, day, month or year. View basic metadata – flags, stars,… Click to continue

Once you’ve added some photos to Lightroom, you can start browsing and ranking them. Being able to do this on your mobile device means you’re not tied to your computer. You can use an odd few minutes here and there to clear a backlog, and you have the photos to hand if you meet up… Click to continue

In the last post, we learned how to import photos captured using other camera apps on your phone or tablet… but if you can import photos from the camera roll, that means you can also import photos shot on real cameras too. It’s a great way of backing up and even starting to edit your… Click to continue

If you decide not to use Lightroom’s built in camera – or you occasionally forget – you’ll want to add other photos to Lightroom. This can be done automatically, so you don’t even have to think about it, or manually. How do I add photos and videos automatically? To automatically add new photos and videos… Click to continue

The Lightroom mobile apps include a built-in camera (not currently available on Android tablets), but why would you bother to open Lightroom instead of using the default camera app? The Lightroom camera has a number of advantages: Pro Controls – The app has a wide range of pro features, including the ability to set the… Click to continue

Before we dive in too deep, it helps to understand some of the terminology and core concepts behind Lightroom mobile, so here’s a quick overview of the Lightroom mobile workflow… First, you need to get photos into Lightroom mobile, whether they’re shot using Lightroom’s built-in camera, using another camera app, using your camera and then… Click to continue

Before you can start exploring the apps themselves, you need to know 3 things: How much it costs (if anything). What you need to run Lightroom mobile. How to get started. How much does it cost? The mobile apps are free so anyone can use them. A few advanced features – and of course, the… Click to continue

More than 3 years have passed since the release of Lightroom mobile, but I know many of you still haven’t had time to investigate where the mobile apps fit in the Lightroom ecosystem, and more importantly, how they can help in your workflow, so in this series of blog posts, we’ll explore the mobile apps… Click to continue