In the Albums panel, tap the '+' icon.
Learn how to organize photos into albums and subsequently into folders. Also, learn to search and filter photos using flags and ratings.
Albums help you organize photographs, grouping and sorting them according to your preferences and requirements. You can create albums and import specific photos of your choice from the Camera Roll or Gallery on your device.
In the Albums panel, tap the '+' icon.
From the menu that appears, select Album.
In the Create Album dialog, type a name for the new album, and tap OK.
Tap () icon next to the album name to set up your album.
Tap the album name to navigate inside the album. Then, tap the add photos icon in the lower-right corner.
You can also tap to the camera icon to capture a photo using the Lightroom's in-app camera and add it to your album.
From the menu that appears, select From All Photos, From Camera Roll, or From Files.
In the next screen, you can now select the photos and add them to the album.
Introduced in Lightroom for mobile 6.0 (October 2020 release)
Lightroom now automatically picks the best photos in an album for you. To use this feature, do the following steps:
From the Albums panel, open the album that contain the photos you want to shortlist.
Tap the three-dot icon in the upper right corner and select Choose Best Photos.
Lightroom analyzes your album and picks the best photos. The analysis is based on photo quality and faces in the photos. The top photos that are picked are displayed in the Chosen section and the rest are shown in the Others section.
You need to have at least 10 photos in your album for this feature to work.
To have fewer photos in the Chosen section, drag the Quality Threshold slider more to the right. Moving the slider to the left will increase the number of Chosen photos.
Long press a photo to view the multi-photo select view. You can then quickly select all the photos in the section by tapping Chosen or Other, depending on which section the selected photo is in.
Before moving the Quality Threshold slider, to keep any photo in the section it is in, long press the photo and tap the first option from the pop-menu in the bottom. You will also choose to move the selected photo to the other section.
Once you're happy with the photos Lightroom has chosen for you, tap the three-dot icon in the upper-right corner. You can view options to share, export, create another album, or flag the Chosen photos as picked. You can also view options to remove the Other photos from the current album or flag them as rejected.
You can copy or move photos between albums. Do one of the following, depending on which screen you are on:
Multiple photos
Single photo
You can remove photos from an album when they are no longer required. Note that any photo removed from an album will continue to be available in the All Photos view.
Multiple Photos
Single Photo
In the Albums panel, tap the '+' icon.
From the menu that appears, choose Create Folder.
In the Create Folder dialog, type a name for the new album, and tap OK.
Folder options
(Optional) Tap () icon next to the album name to set up your folder.
You can now create subfolders or add albums into the folder as necessary.
You can view the photographs in your albums as a slideshow. To start a slideshow, do one of the following:
Slideshow options
To specify the type of transition and the duration of each slide:
Find photos within an album or All Photos view using the Search bar at the top. Aside from searching photos by metadata and keywords, Lightroom for mobile (iOS) can also find and show photos based on the objects in them, or facets associated with the photo.
You can type an object name in the search bar to search all photos and show relevant results. For example, you can type mountains in the Search bar to quickly search for all photos that have mountains in them. To search your photos using facets, type a facet name followed by a colon ':'. For example, you can type camera: to display a list of camera models used. See the list of supported facets below:
You can explore your photo gallery further with auto-complete that displays intuitive suggestions as soon as you type something in the search bar. The terms used in search bar are not case-sensitive.
You can add multiple tokens for search in the Search bar based on objects, facets, or auto-complete suggestions to narrow down your result.
Tap located at the upper-right corner in the Grid view to bring up the context menu and apply segmentation, sorting, slideshow, and other options to the photos from your search result.
The Rate & Review panel in the Loupe view allows you to quickly give a star rating and flag (pick or reject) your album photos. The Filmstrip at the bottom allows you to cycle through the album photos.
Rate a photo
To quickly rate a photo in the Rate & Review panel, flick upward or downward in left-half of the screen. A rating overlay appears showing you the current rating as you flick.
Flag a photo
To quickly flag a photo as pick, rejected, or unflagged in the Rate & Review panel, flick upward or downward in right-half of the screen. A flag overlay appears showing you the current selection as you flick.
The Info panel in the Loupe view allows you to provide a star rating to your photo and flag a photo. Also, you can easily add a Title, Caption, and Copyright to your photo. Additionally, the Info panel displays the metadata associated with your photo.
Click the icon at the top (next to the Search icon) to quickly filter photos by:
The filter options applied while viewing album photos are retained even when you navigate out of the album. To clear the selected filters, tap the cross icon in the filter token displayed at the top of the grid when you open the All Photos view again.
To learn how to search and organize photos in Lightroom on your Android device or desktop, see Search and Organize photos in Lightroom for mobile (Android), and Organize photos in Lightroom (desktop).
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