It’s the first thing I notice about a photo — wonky lines. I don’t know if I’m alone here, but horizons that aren’t horizontal and square corners that aren’t perpendicular just set off every irritation trigger in my head when I look at a photo. Maybe I’m a little bit
Out and about and forget your camera? Don’t discount the humble smartphone when it comes to food photography. My old Samsung S9 can still pack a punch — the lens is equivalent to a full-frame 35mm lens, which is great for food photography! If you shoot in RAW with the
Did you know that Lightroom might be eating up your computer’s hard drive space, without your knowledge? I didn’t. I kept wondering why my computer hard drive was always full. Eventually I stumbled onto Lightroom being the culprit. Lightroom works by uploading the photos that you import to your Adobe
Do you love to travel light? Next time you take your photography on the road, leave the laptop behind and instead, transfer your photos directly to your phone for backup and editing. No computer or camera WiFi required! About two or three phones ago, I received my first one of
White balance is a tricky thing: Getting it right (or wrong) can make or break the consistency of your editing. Here’s how to get the white balance right for your phone photos. Whether you’re shooting on your phone camera, or loading your DSLR photos onto your phone for editing, getting
AI masking has been making it quicker to mask subjects and sky in Lightroom Mobile for a few months now, but the new Adaptive Presets combine the power of AI masks with presets into a one-click, amazing photo result. Adaptive Presets have been rolling out across the Adobe suite and
Yes, you read that correctly — you can use your mobile phone to shoot macro photography (even if you don’t have a fancy new iPhone). While it’s not super duper magnified, you can still get fairly close to your subject. I used my Samsung S21 and the Lightroom mobile app.
A few months ago — it might have been March, it might have been February — Lightroom Mobile received an update. Among all the other shiny new features (which, I swear, I have no problem with: I’m a real fan of Lightroom Mobile, generally, I swear), there was one change
Creating your own presets in Lightroom is a great way to speed up your mobile editing and achieve a consistent look to your mobile phone photos that will set your social media feed apart. Knowing how to create and use presets is an essential skill that will dramatically speed up
A black and white image is just a desaturated image, right? Not necessarily. There’s more than one way of making a black and white photo, and depending on the effect you want to achieve, you might be missing out on options to enhance your creativity. Desaturating an image in Lightroom
Lightroom has great cloud features. But for all its power, the glaring omissions continue to frustrate. I’m a big fan of Lightroom for its cloud features and ability to edit on the go from my mobile phone, tablet or laptop. But when producing client work, I always head back to
I started using Lightroom over a year ago to give me a way of editing photos on my mobile phone while couchbound with my newborn son. The more I use this cloud-based editing app, the more integrated into my workflow it has become. But it doesn’t come without problems. Fortunately,
