Get started with Lightroom for mobile (Android)

Visit the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile Getting Started page to learn about getting started with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile.

Tap the Home () icon to view your Recent Albums and Recently Added photos, or easily navigate to the All Photos view. While in the Home view, you can also explore a number of interactive Learn tutorials, and take a cue from inspiring edits by fellow photography members under the Discover section.

To know more about interactive tutorials and Discover inspirational photos, see In-app learning and inspiration | Lightroom for mobile (Android).

All Photos view is a timeline-based view of all your Lightroom photos segmented by year.

The People View in Lightroom for mobile (Android) recognizes and groups photos of the same person in a cluster. You can easily browse through the photos of any particular person using the People View. The People View in Lightroom for mobile (Android) is disabled by default, for new users.

Select People from the Album view to navigate to the People View. In this view, you can access clusters of photos detected for a particular person. The total number of photos for each person is listed below the cover photo of the cluster.

You can combine photo clusters of the same person under separate people buckets using the Merge option. However, you cannot undo the merge action.

To rename a People cluster, tap a People cluster in the People View and do any of the following:

• Directly edit the name at the top of the named cluster. Once you have edited the name, tap at the bottom of the keypad.
• Tap () icon at the upper-right corner of the screen and select Rename Person. You can then edit the name at the top of the cluster and tap at the bottom of the keypad.
  

You can now manually select and move photos from one people cluster to other if you feel any of the photos don't belong to that cluster. The move operation is valid for both named and unnamed clusters. Change of cluster is also reflected in the Info panel with updated People tag corresponding to the new destination cluster.

To move photos from one cluster to other, do the following:

To disable People view, follow these steps:

The Albums view is a listing of all the albums and folders that you either created in Lightroom for mobile (Android), or synced from Lightroom desktop or Lightroom Classic.

Additionally, in the Albums view tap the () icon next to a shared album name and perform any of these operations:

• Add Photos - Select this option to add photos to the album you are in.
• Store Locally - Select this option to locally store the photos contained in the album you are in.
• Share & Invite - Select this option to share and invite others to view or contribute to an album.
• Move to Shared Photos - Select this option to move the album to Photos Shared to Web container that lists your ad-hoc shares.
• Move to Folder - Select this option to move the album to a folder under Albums view.
• Rename - Select this option to rename your album.
• Delete - Select this option to delete your album. However, this doesn't delete the photos in the selected album.
• Slideshow - Select this option to display the photos in your album as a slideshow.

By default, Lightroom picks one of the pictures to be the cover photo for the album. You can change this option and specify a photo of your choice.

1. In the Grid view, tap and hold a photo to select it.
2. Tap () icon to bring up the context menu and select Set as Cover.
   

In the Grid view, you can set a filter to see only specific photo filtered based on their flagging status, star rating, or other filter options.

Tap () icon located at the upper-right of the Grid view. Choose one of the filtering options, as explained in Filter Photos.

In the Grid view, you can choose to view a flat grid or segment photos in the grid. Further, you can sort the photos by capture time or modification date.

Tap () icon located at the upper-right corner in the Grid view. From the context menu that appears, choose any of the following options:   

Grid Segmentation

When you enable this option, Lightroom for mobile (Android) segments the grid photos By Month (default). You can also choose more segmentation options—By Year, By Day, By Hour.   

Sort By > Capture Date | Import Date| Modified Date | File Name | Star Rating

Select one of these sorting options to reorder the display of photos based on the selected criteria. Clicking the option again toggles between ascending and descending orders.

You can also sort by File Name and Star Rating when the Grid Segmentation is off.  

Sort By > Custom Order

Use this sort option to manually reorder your grid photos.  

Tap the edit icon beside the Custom Order option, to show the Reorder panel. Long-press a photo and drag-drop it to the desired location, guided by a blue markup line that is visible as you drag a photo.

Tap the Custom Order option again to toggle between ascending and descending orders.

You can sort by Custom Order when the Grid Segmentation is off.

The Loupe view is available when you tap a photo in the Grid view. Only one photo is visible at a time. In the Loupe view, you can apply Adjustments and Presets, Selective edits, and also use the Cropping tool.

The Loupe view is the window where you will perform edits and modifications on a photo. In addition to modifying the photo, you can share by mail or messages, copy, move, and more. 

The sidebar, when expanded, allows you to specify certain preferences and view your disk usage. You can also view a list of shortcuts used in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile (Android).

• To expand the Sidebar, tap () at the upper-left corner of the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile (Android) window.
• To collapse the Sidebar, swipe it to the left.

Once you've signed in and acquainted yourself with the workspace in Lightroom for mobile (Android), here's what all you can do with your photos:

• Capture photos - You can capture photos in Auto, Pro, or HDR modes. You can use Lightroom's in-app camera to adjust settings like shutter speed, focus, flash, and others, in the Pro mode. You can capture photos in DNG raw formats on supported devices.
• Import photos - You can import photos from Camera Roll or Gallery. You can also import photos from files or directly from a DSLR camera. You can further set up albums and folders, and organize your photos in order by applying ratings or flags.
• Search and organize photos - You can create albums and further organize them into folders. You can also arrange photos in order using filter options. You can search for photos within an album or in the All Photos view using metadata, keywords, and facets.
• Edit photos - You can apply many cool edits to your photos. You can crop your photo and adjust its tonal scale. You can apply selective edits and even remove unwanted objects from your photos. You can also choose to apply various Presets and Profiles or create a custom preset and apply the same.
• Save, export, and share photos - You can save photos to which you have made edits as well as export original photos. You can share an album of photos or a random selection of photos as a shareable link or to Adobe Portfolio while controlling whether details like copyright data, location data, and metadata are available to the viewer. You can also include a custom watermark in your photos while sharing or saving them to the Camera Roll.