Homescreen workspace
The home view serves as your starting point and provides access to three primary tabs: Device, Lightroom, and Community. Each tab connects you to a different photo source or workflow.
- Lightroom: The Lightroom icon helps to edit the Lightroom app settings and view the profile information associated with your Adobe account.
- Search: Identifies your photos using keywords.
- Notifications: Displays alerts from users who have shared files or are reviewing them for editing.
- Cloud storage: Displays how much space is left in your cloud storage.
- More Settings: Edit the following settings:
- Select: Selects one or multiple photos so you can edit, organize, or apply actions to them together.
- Square grid: Displays photos in evenly sized square thumbnails for a clean and uniform gallery view.
- Justified grid: Arranges photos in rows of varying sizes that align edge-to-edge, neatly maximizing screen space.
- Segmentation: Groups photos into sections based on criteria like date or location for easier browsing.
- Info overlays: Shows additional details on photos, such as file name, rating, or metadata, directly on thumbnails.
- Start slideshow: Plays selected photos in a full-screen sequence for viewing or presenting.
- Add photos: Imports new photos into Lightroom from your device, camera, or other sources.
- App Settings: Lets you manage preferences like storage, syncing, interface options, and overall app behavior.
- Share, Filter, Sort by:
- Share: Shares photos with others or exports them to apps, social media, or cloud storage.
- Filter: Helps you narrow photos by criteria such as ratings, flags, or edits.
- Sort by: Arranges photos in a chosen order, such as by date, name, or modification time.
- Add photos from: Lets you import images into Lightroom from sources like your device gallery, files, or camera roll.
- Capture photos: Opens the in-app camera to shoot photos directly within Lightroom for instant editing.
- Lightroom tabs:
- Device tab: Displays your device’s local photo library, including photos, screenshots, and albums, with a Lightroom icon indicating edited images.
- Lightroom tab: Shows your synced Lightroom library, including edited and imported photos, organized into albums and folders with navigation options.
- Community tab: Features photos from other users, organized by category, allowing you to explore edits and save them as presets.
- Photos: Displays all the photos of the album, device, or images edited in Lightroom.
- Account: View the profile information associated with your Adobe account.
- Change Language: Adjust the language used in Lightroom on the web.
- Album: Select the drop-down to select from different albums.
Grid view and photo browsing
The Grid view appears when you open an album or collection, displaying multiple photos as thumbnails. This view supports quick visual scanning and comparison, with the option to select multiple images for batch operations.
In Grid view, you can cycle through metadata overlays by selecting the More icon > Info Overlays, revealing information such as Contributors, File type, Flags and ratings, Photo info, or EXIF info. This gesture-based approach keeps photo information accessible while maintaining a clean visual layout.
People view face recognition
People use Adobe Sensei technology to analyze and group photos of the same person. The system creates clusters when it finds at least five photos of an individual, making it easy to browse photos by subject.
This view appears as an option in the Lightroom tab > Shared album dropdown menu after the system has analyzed your library. Each person cluster displays a representative photo, and selecting a cluster shows all photos containing that individual.
Detail view for editing
Detail view activates when you select a single photo, shifting the interface to focus entirely on that photo. This view provides access to all editing tools while maximizing screen space for your photo.
- Back: Opens the Grid view.
- Info and rating: Displays photo details such as metadata, location, and file properties, while allowing you to assign star ratings for organizing and prioritizing photos.
- Versions: Shows previous versions and redo and undo edit actions.
- Tools and features: Displays guided tutorials about tools and features.
- Share: Shares photos with others or exports them to apps, social media, or cloud storage.
- Cloud storage: Checks how much space is left in your cloud storage.
- More Settings: Edit the following settings:
- Save copy to device: Exports and stores a copy of the selected photo on your device.
- Organize: Manages photos by adding to albums, moving between albums, removing from albums, deleting, or setting as album cover.
- View options: Controls display settings such as showing info overlays for file details and histogram.
- Info and rating: Provides photo details and assigns star ratings to organize and prioritize images.
- Copy settings: Copies edit settings from the selected photo.
- Paste settings: Applies copied edit settings to another photo.
- Apply from previous: Applies the last used edit settings to the current photo.
- Create preset: Saves current edit settings as a reusable preset.
- Start slideshow: Plays selected photos in a full-screen slideshow.
- App settings: Manages app preferences, including storage, syncing, and interface behavior.
- Tools section: Opens a collection of additional editing tools that offer extended controls beyond the main editing options.
- Tools: Provides access to individual editing features for adjusting and enhancing photos.
- Photo: Displays photo for editing.
