Along with Lightroom 2015.2 and Lightroom 6.2, there are major updates to the Lightroom mobile apps and Lightroom Web.
iOS 2.0
The iOS version has gone Freemium! You can now use the app on your iPad or iPhone absolutely free. Sync remains a CC-only feature, but LR mobile now allows you to capture photos, edit them using the familiar Lightroom tools and share them by email and social media. The difference is the photos and their edits aren’t synced back to the desktop unless you have a CC subscription.
There’s a camera now built into the app, so you can shoot and edit immediately, without having to switch apps.
Dehaze is now available in the iOS app, and it works really well on mobile photos.
There’s a new Targeted Adjustment Tool (TAT) for Color/B&W editing, just like the tool on the desktop.
The Collections panel has been updated for easier management of large numbers of collections, and there’s a new Lightroom Photos collection, like the All Photographs collection on the desktop.
There’s also a brilliant new iPad app called Adobe Photoshop Fix (different to Adobe Photoshop Mix!) which talks directly to Lightroom, adding destructive Photoshop editing tools.
Android 1.3
The Android version is still lagging a little behind iOS development, but it’s rapidly catching up.
Tone Curve, Vignetting and Color (HSL)/B&W controls have been added to the control bar. Tap the icon on the left to view the additional options.
The Crop tool has also been updated.
There’s a new Lightroom Photos collection, like the All Photographs collection on the desktop.
Lightroom Web
Lightroom Web, which can be accessed at http://lightroom.adobe.com, has had massive changes.
There’s a new Welcome screen, with easy access to frequently used tools.
But the big news is a new Editing mode! Yes, you read that correctly – you can now edit your photos in a web browser and have the changes automatically (and non-destructively) synced back to your desktop catalog and mobile devices.
When you click the Edit button, the photo is downloaded to your browser and the Crop, Preset and Adjust panels appear on the right.
It works better on some browsers than others so far (try Chrome!) and it’s early days, but it has great potential for multi-computer workflows in future.
Book Updates
I’m just finishing up the changes to my desktop FAQ book, ready for the new Import dialog, and then I’ll be updating the Lightroom mobile book with the new mobile features. As before, these will be free updates for anyone who has already purchased.
Editing in Lightroom on the web does not work for me in Chrome and on multiple computers..
I have the latest version of chrome!
Have you tried a different browser Scott?
Yes I tried Firefox last night and that’s ok
However I found the whole web editing thing to slow(and I have fast internet) so not sure I am going to Perdue it any further
Thanks
Victoria, thanks for fast & clear answer!
Thanks, good depth as always.
I hadn’t been aware of Lightroom Web – thanks for that hint!
Is that available for any free user of LR mobile, or would you have to have a paid subscription to LR CC?
Thanks!
You’ll need a paid subscription for that, as it relies on syncing which isn’t available with the free apps.
Thank you Victoria. I do have both JPEGs and DNGs selected in the Add from camera. It is interesting, but until I delete the JPEG the DNG does not show.
Make sure you report it, just in case it’s something they can fix: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family
I am having a strange issue with Ligthroom on Android Lollipop. When I take photo with the phone (Samsung Note5) in pro mode it captures jpeg (which it shows in album) and dng (which you can only access through the file system) files. Lightroom seems to have access (through its “Add photo” feature) only to the jpegs. I can only see the dng in Lightroom after removing the jpg. Lightroom has no access to the filesystem on the phone which is strange. Anybody has Lightroom working correctly on Note5?
At the bottom of the add photos screen, just check in the bottom left corner to make sure it’s not filtering the view.
Hi Victoria,
Just want to say that I found your website “by accident” and i find it great! I am new to LR and you are making my journey even more exciting and enjoyable. Thanks a lot for sharing your experience!
Thanks Oscar! I do my best!
Hi, just loaded this up onto my Android phone (One+One). Am I being stupid or does it look like I can’t actually capture a photo from with LR on an Android phone?
The Android version doesn’t have a camera built into the app yet, but you can use the normal camera app and have those photos automatically imported into Lightroom mobile.
That’s disappointing!
It’s really my #1 request.
I’ve tried photosmith and it didn’t really work well for me.
In what way didn’t Photosmith work? I didn’t bother with the desktop sync plug-in, but just uploaded xmp files to my desktop to match up with the raw files when I got home, which worked quite nicely.
I opened LR mobile this morning-I briefly noticed the new layout of the collections. But then I soon realized it was syncing 100’s of photos (guessing it’s from the camera roll -which I didn’t ask it to do nor did I want it to-since I didn’t add any collections from the desktop). I quickly signed off to try to figure out what was happening—and now as I sign in LR mobile seems stuck in a syncing task with no apparent way to terminate it. Is there a way to terminate a sync without signing off? Right now I have a black screen with a spinning circle in the middle. I’d like to stop the sync, figure out what setting I need to turn off to stop the current sync, and view the current collections. Help please?
Hmmm, if you can get into LR mobile, you could select the photos in the Lightroom Photos collection and remove them. You’ll also want to tap the LR icon in the top left corner and turn off Auto Add.
Thank you. I did turn off auto-add. Wish that had been a choice to turn on rather than having to turn it off. I now have camera roll access underneath my collections, and at the top before my collections I have “Lightroom photos” with about 1100 photos from various years (seemingly random though I suppose it is not random). I only want to see my collections. Is there a way to turn off the “Lightroom photos” and “camera roll” so they are not a part of my menu-the new layout is cluttered now and distracting. I preferred the large thumbnail display of my collections and nothing else.
I said the same about Auto Add, although I do have it turned on. No, there isn’t a way to turn off the Lightroom Photos and camera roll, sorry.
What Lightroom photos is it drawing from? Again, mine seem random-in that it shows 600 from 2015 (out of 3500), 400 from 2014 (again from 3000ish),,,and so on back a few years.
It’s like All Photographs collection on the desktop – it’s a special collection including all of the photos marked for sync. It might be being a bit slow to tidy up the folder counts though, due to the current server traffic.
So If auto-add is turned on is that adding all the photos (or thumbnails of all photographs” from “all photographs” in LR desktop? Does the “auto-add” option have anything to do with camera roll? Or is camera roll in LR mobile a default ” have to have” active feature as you suggested?
The Camera Roll is the iPhone’s own camera roll. The Lightroom Photos collection is (or should be) a composite of all the synced collections. Auto Add in Prefs controls whether photos are automatically added from the iPhone’s camera roll. And Auto Add under the collections menu determines which collection they’re added to, if any.
Any news on Lightroom Mobile importing Raw files from the photos library on the iPad that you import via the Camera connection kit SD card reader from my DSLR?
It’s the one feature that would enable me to work in my photos while on vacation. I’ve been waiting years for this one addition.
I can load the raw files into the camera roll. But LR won’t import them. Does 2.0.0 change this?
Not yet. It’s one I’m continuing to campaign for, as I’ve just come back from an iPad-only vacation myself. In the meantime, check out Photosmith. It’s no longer being updated, but I used it on my trip and it was ok.