Get started with Photoshop Express on iOS

Adobe Photoshop Express is a free mobile app for making quick, powerful, and easy photo edits and creating collages. Apply instant filters called Looks, choose from an array of adjustment and correction options to touch up your photos, and instantly share them on social media.

Get started

Adobe Photoshop Express is available on iOS in App Store. Download and install the app by clicking the badge below:

View and select photos

Launch the app and select the photo that you want to work with. The first screen displays photos from your device's memory.

Alternatively, you can click a photograph using the app and work with it right away. To do this choose Capture from the Home screen.

Edit photos

Make your photos look their fabulous best with a variety of adjustments and corrections. To make edits to your photos, choose Edit from the Home screen.

Themes

Photoshop Express provides you with various themes that you can apply to your images. You can choose from a wide range of themes and customize the text. 

You can also create and save your customized Themes. To do this, Tap Add in the My Themes panel, type a name and tap Save Theme.

Apply Looks

Photoshop Express allows you to apply instant filters called Looks. You can choose from a range of eye-catching effects and control its intensity. Select your desired effect to apply it and adjust its intensity using the slider.

You can also create and save your customized Looks. To do this, tap Add in the My Looks panel, type a name, and click Save Look.

Fused Looks

Fused looks inside the Editor workflow allow you to apply edits separately to the subject and background in your photo with just a single tap. You can choose from Pop, 90s Aesthetic, or Warm & Cool looks and adjust the slider to achieve the look you desire. 

To apply Fused looks, do the following:

Crop

Click  to crop, straighten, rotate, and flip your photos. You can also transform and fix perspective using this option.

Crop your photo

Fix perspective in your photos

Photoshop Express provides four perspective correction options - Full Auto, Balanced Auto, Vertical Skew, and Horizontal Skew.

Resize your photos

The image resize options will scale photos down to the selected long edge, while preserving the photo's current crop ratio. Scaling is applied to exported/saved and shared photos.

Cutout objects

You can cut out a part or multiple parts of a picture to isolate what you need. For example, you may want to isolate the object from the background. To cutout and select objects, do the following:

Transfer makeup

Experiment with different styles using Makeup Transfer and share a new look. Photoshop Express lets you transfer makeup within your image in just one tap.

Drag the slider to view the before and after image

To transfer makeup, do the following:

Make adjustments

You can use the following adjustment options to enhance your photo:

Exposure The amount of light in which the photo was captured. You can adjust the slider to make your photo look dark or light.

Contrast The difference between the brightness of the dark and light areas in your photo. A high value on the slider can make your photo pop out by increasing the difference in lightness and darkness.

Highlights The brightest parts in a photo. You can adjust the slider to control details of highlights. A
lower value of the slider gives more details in highlights.

Shadows The darkest part in a photo. You can adjust the slider to control details of shadows. A
higher value of the slider gives more details in the shadow.

Whites Controls the brightest areas in a photo and has a wider tonal range than Highlights. Adjust the slider to change the overall brightness of your photo along with white parts.

Blacks Controls the darkest areas in a photo and has a wider range of tonal values and effect than Shadows.

Temperature Gives a warm (sunny) look or a cool (winter) look to your photo.

Tint Adds green and magenta tint to your photos.

Vibrance Improves lower-saturated colors with less effect on the higher-saturated colors. Adjust the slider to boost colors in your photo without making it look harsh.

Saturation Adjust the slider to saturate all colors in your photo equally and enhance its colors.

Clarity Adjust the slider to add depth to an image by increasing local contrast. This can bring out details and textures in your photo.

Dehaze Removes atmospheric haze from photos. Adjust the slider to remove fog or enhance fog in your photo.

Sharpen Enhances contrast between specific pixels. Adjust the slider to make your photo look crisp.

Reduce Luminance Noise Luminance noise disturbs the brightness of colored pixels. Adjust the slider to fix this type of noise.

Reduce Color Noise Color noise is present when multi-colored pixels appear as flat color. Adjust the slider to fix this type of noise.

Add text

To add text, you can choose from a list of text options called Text styles. Create memes and posters by adding Text styles to your photos and collages. You can adjust the text opacity using the slider, add text color, easily pan, zoom, or rotate, and adjust the placement of the text.

Correct red eye

Click  to correct red eyes and pet eyes in a click.

Replace eyes

This feature is currently available in UK and Australia regions only.

You can copy eyes from a photo and use it to replace a pair of eyes on another photo. Open the photo with eyes that you want to edit, click Replace Eyes, and tap the face. You can then choose the reference photo from where you want to copy the eyes.

For better results, select photos that are clicked in similar conditions such as lighting, zoom levels, and angles.

Add borders

Click  to add a border to your photo.

Remove blemishes

Click  to remove spots, dirt, and dust from your photos with a single touch. 

If you don't receive your desired result, re-tap to view different results on each tap.

Auto-enhance your photos

Use Auto Enhance to adjust the exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, temperature, tint, vibrance, and clarity to auto values. To apply Auto Enhance, click  in the top panel of the screen.

On iOS, you can allow Photoshop Express to automatically apply Auto Enhance each time you open a photo. To do this, deselect Disable Auto Enhance in Preferences.

You can allow Photoshop Express to automatically apply Auto Enhance each time you open a photo. To do this, deselect Disable Auto Enhance in Preferences.

Add a watermark

You can add your desired image or text as a watermark to your photo:

• To disable or remove a watermark, swipe the photo preview displayed on the Share screen to get the photo without the watermark.
• To disable or remove a watermark from all photos, remove the custom image or custom text added as a watermark under App Settings > Preferences.

Correct lens issues

The Lens correction tool in Photoshop Express helps fix lens issues such as distortion, chromatic aberration, vignette, and perspective. The lens corrections are applied based on your lens model because each lens is uniquely designed.

You can select Enable Lens Correction to apply lens corrections and fix these lens issues. The toggle for Enable Lens Correction remains disabled for photos that do not have any lens issues.

To learn how to correct lens issues, see Lens correction.

Apply Blur effect to photos

In Photoshop Express, you can find Blur in the Adjustments panel. You can choose from two Blur options: 

• Radial Blur Applies blur to specific regions in a photo
• Full Blur Applies blur to the complete photo

To apply Radial Blur, follow these steps:

Selfie camera features

Filters

This feature is currently available in UK, Singapore, South Africa, and Canada only.

The selfie camera in Photoshop Express uses real time portrait segmentation, depth estimation, lens blur, and tablet matting. This allows you to embellish your selfies and use attractive filters on the move.

You can use the following filters:

• Portrait – It applies the depth of field effect which blurs the background.
• Pop Color- It highlights selected parts of your photo and keeps them in full color while the rest of the photo turns black and white.
• B&W- It highlights the background of your photo and keeps it in full color and converts your body to black and white.
• Motion- The Motion Blur filter provides a linear movement feel/effect.
• Zoom- It makes the photo fade towards the center and gives the effect of a zooming in/out of a photo.

Tattoos

Make collages

Photoshop Express allows you to create gorgeous and share-worthy collages in a single tap. Select the photos that you want to work with and use one of the layout styles in the bottom panel of the screen. These collage layouts are intelligently created using image metadata, such as geolocation and time.

To create a collage:

The collage features include:

Aspect ratio Tap the Aspect ratio icon to set the aspect ratio of your collage.

Change Layout Tap the layout icon to choose from grid, freeform, and shapes layouts.

Edit and replace photos Tap the edit icon to replace or delete any photo in your collage. To swap photos, long-press any photo to drag and drop it on any other cell. To edit a photo tap the edit icon.

Apply Style Tap the Style transfer icon to apply quick styles to your collage.

Add text Tap the text icon to add text. Stylize your text by choosing from the available font styles. You can adjust the text opacity using the slider, add text color, easily pan, zoom, or rotate, and also adjust the placement of the text.

Add sticker Tap the sticker icon to add stickers to your collage. You can pan, zoom, or rotate the sticker and place it as you desire.

Change Borders Tap the border icon to apply borders and adjust inner and outer borders. You can also add colors to borders.

Add background patterns Tap the background icon to add background styles. You can choose from a variety of available patterns, colors, and gradients.

Share your work

Quickly share your work on Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and through text messages. To do this, in the upper-right corner of the screen. Click  and select your preferred option to share.

Multi-share option

You can quickly share to multiple destinations that include Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Flicker, at once. To simultaneously share to the destinations of your choice, enable the toggle button of the destinations where you want to share and then click Save & Share at the upper-right corner of the screen. You can also tap a destination name if you want to share to that particular destination only.

Non-destructive save

You can overwrite your photos while sharing instead of creating a copy. You can change this setting in Preferences. Select App settings > Preferences > Sharing Settings and deselect Save as copy. 

Control JPEG quality

You can choose a quality scale to be applied to your photo while exporting or sharing the image. A 100% value gives the best result with increased file size. By default, the quality scale is set to 85%.

To change image quality:

Work with other Adobe apps

Connect to Creative Cloud, Lightroom, and CC Library from within Photoshop Express. To do this: