Select a photo to open it in Detail view.
-
Lightroom Web Help
-
Get started
- Learn the basics
- Access the app
-
Get started
-
Lightroom Mobile Help
- What's new
-
Get started
- Technical requirements
- Language versions
- Download and install Lightroom
- Workspace overview
- Manage cloud storage and sync
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Gesture controls in Lightroom on mobile
- Access contextual help
- App preferences and settings
- Enable Early access features
- Export photos with Content Credentials
- Connect social accounts to Content Credentials
- Save Community edits as presets
- Remix photos in Community
- Manage your Community profile
- Follow and manage Community photographers
- Supported file formats
- Generate and share diagnostic logs
- Adobe Lightroom on mobile FAQ
- App subscriptions and account
-
Add and capture photos
- Add and import photos
- Capture photos
- Organize with albums and folders
- Search and filter photos
- Review, rate, and manage versions
-
Apply quick actions
- Apply presets to photos using Quick actions
- Auto-enhance photos with quick actions
- Edit subject, sky, and background using Quick actions
- Blur backgrounds using Quick action
- Enhance scenes with Quick actions
- Retouch people’s features using Quick actions
- Straighten photos using Quick actions
- Remove blemishes using Quick actions
- Device compatibility for Quick actions
- Convert photo to video using Quick actions
- Adjust light and color
- Masks and selective adjustments
- Crop and transform
- Heal, clone, and remove
- Manage AI edits
- Edit videos
-
Share, save, and export
- Add watermarks to photos
- Create shared albums for others to contribute
- View and contribute to shared albums as an invitee
- Share albums using free cloud storage
- Export photos in multiple formats
- Share photo edits with the community
- Send photos to Photoshop on iPad
- Export HDR photos
- Export videos
- Share photos via different apps
- Copy and paste edits to photos
- Create edit replay videos
-
Troubleshoot
- Known and fixed issues in Adobe Lightroom on mobile
- App launch and update issues
- Editing and preset issues
-
Settings and access issues
- Premium features unavailable after purchase
- Trackpad scroll gestures not working on iPad
- Waiting for Settings dialog when creating versions
- Settings could not be loaded error on iOS
- iOS photo prompt missing on first launch
- Batch export hangs with Content Credentials on iOS
- Lightroom database corruption error on iOS
- Work with presets
Adjust light
Learn how to use Light panel sliders to control brightness and tonal range in your images.
The Light panel gives you precise control over brightness and tonal range in your photos. Use these adjustments to correct exposure, recover detail in highlights and shadows, or create dramatic lighting effects. The Light panel is available for both photos and videos in Adobe Lightroom on mobile.
Select Edit > Light .
Drag the following slider to adjust the settings:
- Exposure: Controls the overall brightness of your photo. Move the slider left to darken the photo or right to brighten it.
- Contrast: Adjusts the difference between light and dark areas. Move the slider left to reduce contrast and right to enhance it.
- Highlights: Controls the brightness of the lighter areas in your photo. Move the slider left to darken highlights and recover details, or right to brighten highlights and reduce detail.
- Shadows: Adjusts the brightness of the darker areas in your photo. Move the slider left to deepen shadows or right to lighten them and reveal details.
- Whites: Sets the white point of the photo. Move the slider right to make more colors appear completely white.
- Blacks: Sets the black point of the photo. Move the slider left to make more colors appear completely black.
After adjusting the sliders, your changes apply immediately. Select with two fingers on the photo to view the histogram and see how your adjustments affect the tonal distribution.
For advanced tonal control, use the Point Curve option in the Light panel. The curve graph represents the tonal range of your photo, and you can select to add control points or drag existing points to fine-tune specific tonal areas.
Select a photo to open it in Detail view.
Select Edit > Light .
Drag the following slider to adjust the settings:
- Exposure: Controls the overall brightness of your photo. Move the slider left to darken the photo or right to brighten it.
- Contrast: Adjusts the difference between light and dark areas. Move the slider left to reduce contrast and right to enhance it.
- Highlights: Controls the brightness of the lighter areas in your photo. Move the slider left to darken highlights and recover details, or right to brighten highlights and reduce detail.
- Shadows: Adjusts the brightness of the darker areas in your photo. Move the slider left to deepen shadows or right to lighten them and reveal details.
- Whites: Sets the white point of the photo. Move the slider right to make more colors appear completely white.
- Blacks: Sets the black point of the photo. Move the slider left to make more colors appear completely black.
After adjusting the sliders, your changes apply immediately. Toggle on Edit in HDR Mode to view the histogram and see how your adjustments affect the tonal distribution. The HDR section in the histogram will be colored red if the device isn't compatible with HDR. Select the Info icon to view details.
For advanced tonal control, use the Curve option in the Light panel. The curve graph represents the tonal range of your photo, and you can select to add control points or drag existing points to fine-tune specific tonal areas.