Edit photos in Lightroom for mobile (Android)

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Selective icon at the bottom of the screen.

Tap the '+' plus icon that appears at the upper-left corner and then choose one of the selective edit tools - Brush Selection, Radial Gradient, or Linear Gradient.

Brush Selection

With the Brush Selection tool, brush over the desired area in the photo.

Linear Gradient

Tap on the photo to view the Linear Gradient overlay.

Radial Gradient

Tap on the photo to view the Radial Gradient overlay.

Add another selection mask

To add another selection overlay, tap '+' icon at the upper-left corner and choose another selection tool.

Once you have placed the selection mask, tap any of the edit tiles in the menu displayed at the bottom — Light, Color, Effects, Details, and Optics. Use the slider controls in the pop-up menu to apply edits on a specific part of your photo.

Tap  icon to see a Before view.

To confirm the edits, tap  icon.  

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Healing icon at the bottom of the screen.

Select one of the following Healing Brush tools:

Heal: Borrows the texture from the source area and matches it to the color and tone of the target area in the photo.

Clone: Replicates the pixels from the source area in the photo to the target area.

Both Heal and Clone tools transfer the texture borrowed from the source area to the target area. The Heal tool, however, considers the colors and tones surrounding the target area and blends everything together. While the Clone exactly replicates the pixels from the source area to the target area.

To move and position the source or target area on the photo, drag the blue pin at the center of that area.

Tap the () icon at the upper-right corner to view the photo edits on fullscreen by hiding the screen controls and the white marquee source/target areas.

Long press on the blue pin at the center of the target or source area to bring up the Healing Options context-menu:

• From the context-menu, choose Heal or Clone to switch between the tools.
  
• Delete: Deletes the selected source-target area pair.
• Reset Healing Brush: Resets and removes all the adjustments you've made using the Healing tools.
  

Long-press on the photo to see a Before view.  

To confirm the edits, tap  icon.  

Tap the Undo or Redo icons to move back or forward in your edits, one step at a time.

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Crop icon at the bottom of the screen.

The available Cropping options are displayed as tiles, along the bottom of the screen. Swipe to the left or right, to view all the tiles. Tap a tile to apply the corresponding option.

Do one of the following for additional options:

• Tap the Aspect ratio tile to select one of the available cropping aspect ratios.
• Tap the Aspect Locked tile to crop without a preset aspect ratio.
• Tap Straighten tile to automatically straighten the photo.
• Tap the Rotate L tile to rotate the photo anti-clockwise by 90 degrees.
• Tap the Rotate R tile to rotate the photo clockwise by 90 degrees.
• Tap the Flip H tile flip the photo horizontally.
  Tap the Flip V tile to flip the photo vertically.
• Drag the edges and corners of the cropping guide, to change the shape and size of the crop.
• Drag the cropping wheel to crop the photo by a certain angle. You can drag the cropping wheel within the range of -45 to 45 degrees.
• Tap within the cropping guide and drag it to reposition it.
  

To confirm the edits, tap icon.  

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Profiles icon at the bottom of the screen.

See the screenshots below for reference: Tapping Adobe Raw brings up the profile groups menu.

Tap to choose any of the profile groups from the menu to view profiles available in that group.

You can swipe horizontally toward right or left on the profile thumbnails to browse all the profiles available under a selected profile group.

Tap a profile to apply it to your photo. 

Long-press on the photo to see a Before view.  

To confirm the edits, tap  icon.  

Tap the Undo or Redo icons to move back or forward in your edits, one step at a time.

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Profiles icon at the bottom of the screen.

Tap the three-dots () icon at the upper-right corner of the Profiles pop-up menu and choose Manage Profiles.

In the Manage Profiles screen, switch on the profile groups that you want to show in the Profiles menu. Switch off the profile groups that you want to hide from the Profiles menu.

Tap  in the upper-right corner.

Open a photo in Loupe view. In the Edit screen, tap the Profiles icon in the bottom panel.

Tap the three-dots () icon in the upper-right corner and select Import Profiles.

Tap the profiles you want to import from Google Drive or any folder on your mobile. You can select individual dcp or xmp files. You can also select zip files that contain multiple dcp and xmp files. 

The imported profiles appear in the Profiles pop-up menu. 

In the Edit panel of the Loupe view, tap Presets icon at the bottom of the screen.

The available Presets are grouped as Color, Creative, B&W, Curve, Grain, Sharpening, and Vignetting. Choose any group to view the corresponding Presets.

Tap any Preset to apply it on the photo.

Long-press on the photo to see a Before view.  

To confirm the edits, tap  icon.  

Tap the Undo or Redo icons to move back or forward in your edits, one step at a time.

Open a photo in the Loupe view based on which you want to create a user preset. Do any one of the following:

• In the Loupe view, tap the three-dots () icon at the upper-right corner of the screen to bring up the options menu. Then, choose Create Preset.
  
• In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Presets icon at the bottom of the screen. Tap the three-dots () icon at the upper-right corner of the  Presets pop-up screen and choose Create Preset.

In the New Preset screen, specify the following:

Preset Name: Type the desired preset name.

Preset Group: By default, custom presets are saved in the User Presets group. You can also create a new group using the Create New Preset Group option.    

After selecting the required edit settings, tap the tick mark () icon at the upper-right corner.

Your new preset is now available in the Presets menu.

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Presets icon at the bottom of the screen.

In the Presets pop-up menu, locate the user preset that you want to update, move, or delete. Tap the three-dots () icon next to that user preset and choose any of the following options:

Update: In the Update Preset screen, modify the edit settings to include in the user preset as necessary.

Click the Select pop-up menu and choose any of the following options:

• All: Selects all the edit settings groups.
• Default: Selects the default set of edit settings. Tools, Optics, and Geometry settings are excluded by default.
• Modified: Selects the edit settings manually. To select or deselect specific edit settings, tap the checkbox next to the edit settings groups.
• None: Deselects all the edit settings.

After modifying the required edit settings, tap the tick mark () icon at the upper-right corner.

Rename: In the Rename Preset screen, modify Preset Name as necessary.

After modifying the preset name, tap the tick mark () icon at the upper-right corner.

Move To: Select this option to move a user preset to an existing preset group or a new preset group by tapping the corresponding checkbox. On selecting the desired preset group, tap Move at the bottom of the screen.

To know how to create a new preset group, see Create presets.

Delete: Choose this option to permanently delete the user preset from all synced devices.

Open a photo in Loupe view. In the Edit screen, tap the Presets icon in the bottom panel.

Tap the three-dots () icon in the upper-right corner and select Import Presets.

Tap the presets you want to import either from Google Drive or any folder on your mobile. You can select individual lrtemplate or xmp files. You can also select zip files that contain multiple lrtemplate and xmp files. 

The imported presets then appear in the Presets pop-up menu. 

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Presets icon at the bottom of the screen.

Tap the three-dots () icon at the upper-right corner of the Presets pop-up menu and choose Manage Presets.   

In the Manage Presets screen, switch on the preset groups that you want to show in the Presets menu. Switch off the preset groups that you want to hide from the Presets menu.

Tap  in the upper-right corner.

Open a photo in Loupe view and in the Edit panel, tap Presets ().

Tap the three-dots () icon in the Presets panel to bring up the options menu. 

Tap Show Partially Compatible Presets to not view the partially compatible presets in the Presets panel.

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Effects icon at the bottom of the screen to view the controls.

Adjust the effects sliders:

For related useful information, see Vignette, grain, and dehaze effects.

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Details icon at the bottom of the screen.

Adjust any of the following controls:

Sharpening controls

• Sharpening: Adjusts edge definition. Increase the slider value to increase sharpening. A value of zero (0) turns off sharpening. In general, set the slider to a lower value for cleaner images. The adjustment locates pixels that differ from surrounding pixels based on the threshold you specify and increases the pixels’ contrast by the amount you specify.
• Radius: Adjusts the size of the details that sharpening is applied to. Photos with very fine details may need a lower radius setting. Photos with larger details may be able to use a larger radius. Using too large a radius generally results in unnatural-looking results.
• Detail: Adjusts how much high-frequency information is sharpened in the image and how much the sharpening process emphasizes edges. Lower settings primarily sharpen edges to remove blurring. Higher values are useful for making the textures in the image more pronounced.
• Masking: Controls an edge mask. With a setting of zero (0), everything in the image receives the same amount of sharpening. With a setting of 100, sharpening is mostly restricted to those areas near the strongest edges.

Luminance noise reduction controls

• Noise Reduction: Increase the slider value to reduce luminance noise.
• Detail: Controls the luminance noise threshold. Useful for very noisy photos. Higher values preserve more detail but may produce noisier results. Lower values produce cleaner results but may also remove some detail.
• Contrast: Controls luminance contrast. Useful for very noisy photos. Higher values preserve contrast but may produce noisy blotches or mottling. Lower values produce smoother results but may also have less contrast.

Color noise reduction controls

• Color Noise Reduction: Increase the slider value to reduce color noise.
• Detail: Controls the color noise threshold. Higher values protect thin, detailed color edges but may result in color speckling. Lower values remove color speckles but may result in color bleeding.
• Smoothness: Controls how much smoothing to apply to the image as you reduce the color noise.  

In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap Optics icon at the bottom of the screen.

Chromatic aberration appears as a color fringe along the edges of objects. It is caused by the failure of the lens to focus different colors to the same spot, aberrations in sensor microlenses, and by flare.

Lightroom for mobile includes numerous lens profiles, which can be used to correct common lens aberrations such as geometric distortion and vignetting. The profiles are based on metadata that identifies the camera and lens used to capture the photo, and then compensates accordingly.

Cameras with built-in lens profile support 
Lens correction for all Micro 4/3 (MFT) lenses and cameras, including Panasonic, Olympus, and other cameras (Fuji X, Leica Q, plus many point-and-shoot models from Canon) happens automatically without your interaction. If your lens is supported automatically, Lightroom for mobile displays the message Built-in Lens Profile Applied in the Optics panel.

(Optional) If Lightroom for mobile is unable to find a matching lens profile automatically, do the following:

1. Tap Manually Select a Profile.
   
2. In the Lens Profile panel, select a Make, Model, and Profile.

If you want to change the matching lens profile applied by Lightroom automatically, do the following:

1. Tap the current lens profile name.
   
2. In the Lens Profile panel, select a Make, Model, and Profile.
   If you want to revert to the matching lens profile automatically applied by Lightroom, tap Auto Select.

The lens profiles that are available depend on whether you’re adjusting a raw or a non-raw file. For a list of supported lenses, see Supported lenses.

You can customize the correction applied by the profile by adjusting the following sliders below lens profile:

Select a photo with skewed geometry.

(Recommended) In the Edit panel in the Loupe view, tap the Optics icon at the bottom of the screen, enable the Lens Profile Corrections option.

Tap the Geometry icon at the bottom of the screen.

From the Upright menu, choose an option to apply the correction to the photo:

• Guided: Allows you to draw two to four guides on your photo to adjust perspective.
• Auto: Corrects both vertical and horizontal perspective while balancing the overall image, preserving as much of the visible image area as possible.
• Level: Corrects horizontal perspective, making horizontal lines parallel in the photo.
  
• Vertical: Corrects vertical perspective caused by tilting the camera up or down. Makes vertical lines parallel in the photo.
  
• Full: Combines Auto, Level, and Vertical upright modes to automatically correct perspective.
  

Cycle through the Upright modes until you find the most preferable setting.

All the Upright modes correct distortion and perspective errors. The best setting varies from one photo to another. Experiment with the modes before deciding on the best possible mode for your photo.

Guided Upright mode

If you chose the Guided Upright mode, do the following:

(Optional) While correcting the perspective of your photo, you may get white areas near the image boundaries. To remove the white area, enable the Constrain Crop option, which automatically crops the photo according to the original dimension.

Use the geometry sliders to fine-tune the perspective corrections - Distortion, Vertical, Horizontal, Rotate, Aspect, Scale, X Offset, Y Offset.

• Distortion: Corrects lens barrel distortion (straight lines appearing to bow outward) and pincushion distortion (straight lines appearing to bend inward). Move the slider to the right to correct barrel distortion in your photo; move the slider to the right to correct pincushion distortion.
• Vertical: Makes vertical lines in an image parallel. If the vertical lines are diverging at the bottom edge, move the slider to the left to push the pixels away from that edge; if the vertical lines are diverging at the top edge, move the slider to the right to push the pixels away from that edge.
• Horizontal: Makes horizontal lines in an image parallel. Move the slider to the left to push the pixels away from the right edge; move the slider to the right to push the pixels away from the left edge.
• Rotate: Rotates the image to correct for camera tilt. Move the slider to the left to rotate the image anti-clockwise; move the slider to the right to rotate the image clockwise.
• Aspect: Move the slider to the left to widen the perspective of the photo; move the slider to the right to narrow the perspective of the photo.
  
• Scale: Adjusts the photo scale up or down while maintaining the aspect ratio. Move the slider to the left to scale down; move the slider to the right to scale up.
  
• X Offset: Move the slider to the left to shift the image pixels toward left on the x-axis, leaving a white area at the right edge; move the slider to the right to shift the image pixels toward right on the x-axis, leaving a white area at the left edge.
• Y Offset: Move the slider to the left to shift the image pixels downward on the y-axis, leaving a white area at the top edge; move the slider to the right to shift the image pixels upward on the y-axis, leaving a white area at the bottom edge.

Select a photo from which you want to copy the edit settings.

Tap the three-dots () icon at the upper-right corner and choose Copy Settings.

From the Copy Settings dialog that appears, tap Select at the top and choose any of the following:

• All: Selects all the edit settings groups.
• Default: Selects the default set of edit settings. Tools and Geometry settings are excluded by default.
• Modified: Selects only the edits settings that you've modified or applied on the selected photo.
• None: Deselects all the edit settings.

You can also manually select or deselect specific settings by expanding the edit setting groups.

After making the selection, tap  icon.

Select one or more photos to which you want to paste the copied edit settings.

Tap the three-dots () icon at the upper-right corner and choose Paste Settings.

Open a photo in the Edit view and apply the desired edits.

Scroll the bottom panel and tap Versions.

There are two tabs in Versions: Named and Auto.

Named

In this tab, you can view the Original which is the photo you imported. The Current thumbnail displays the selected photo with the applied edits. Tap Create Version to save these edits as a Version. Enter a name for the Version and tap Create. The edits are saved in the Versions list. This way you can create and save different edits as Versions.

Auto

This tab contains all the versions that are automatically saved by Lightroom each time you leave the Edit view after making an edit. The Auto Versions have a date and time stamp added to their name. You can also save an Auto Version as a Named Version by tapping the three-dots icon at the upper-right corner and selecting Save as Named Version. Enter a name for the Version and tap Save.

To apply edits from a Version to the selected photo, select the desired Version from the Versions list and tap Apply.

Select a Version and tap the three-dot icon at the upper-right corner to rename or delete it. To delete all Named or Auto Versions, tap the three-dot icon at the lower-right corner and tap Delete all Named Versions or Delete all Autosaves.