Photography
Lightroom Photo Editor & Video
Adobe's mobile photo and video editor, with AI retouching, background blur and batch edits, free to start.
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- Developer
- Adobe Inc.
- Score
- 4.8
- Downloads
- 100K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 12+
- Version
- 11.6.21
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Adobe's mobile photo editor covers everything from a quick fix to a selfie to colour grading a batch of travel shots. Lightroom is aimed at people who shoot on their phone and post to social media, though it carries the same exposure, highlight, shadow, hue and saturation controls as the desktop version. One-tap tools called Quick Actions and Adaptive Presets suggest edits automatically. Generative Remove erases unwanted objects, Generative Expand fills in extra canvas when the framing was too tight, and a background blur adds a shallow-depth look. A community section offers presets and filters shared by other users, from vintage film looks to retro colour, applied in a tap. Edits made to one photo can be copied across a whole set to keep an event consistent. Video editing is included alongside photos, and the app is free to download.
Lightroom Photo Editor & Video: the full guide
What the app is
Adobe's phone edition of Lightroom carries the desktop program's sliders for exposure, shadows, highlights, hue and saturation, making it a rare free phone editor a professional would recognise. The audience is phone photographers who post what they shoot, and video editing is included.
Automation sits over the manual tools: Quick Actions and Adaptive Presets propose edits in one tap, Generative Remove deletes stray objects, Generative Expand widens a too-tight frame, and background blur fakes shallow depth. A community section shares user-made presets from film looks to retro colour. One edit can be copied across an entire set to keep a shoot consistent.
How it works day to day
A weekend of travel photos is the classic case. You pick the best frame, drag exposure and shadows until it looks like what you remember, remove a tourist with Generative Remove, and then copy those settings onto the other thirty shots so the set matches. A selfie gets a quick preset from the community gallery. A clip for a story goes through the video tools. Experienced users work the sliders; everyone else leans on the one-tap suggestions and still ends up somewhere respectable. Either way the whole process is a few minutes per batch.
Why people look for it
The Adobe name brings in people who've heard Lightroom is what photographers use and want a free way in. The generative tools, especially removing objects and expanding a frame, are what get demonstrated to friends. Social posters searching for consistent-looking feeds find the batch copy feature is the real answer to that problem.
Look and feel
Photography editors go near-black so colour judgements aren't thrown off, and the five images for Lightroom will show a photo with a slider panel beneath it, the preset browser and probably a before-and-after of a generative tool. A lot of controls arranged in scrollable strips is the norm. It is a serious tool and it looks like one, even on a phone.
