P: Enable photo merge (Pano & HDR) with imported images

I don't understand why they aren't able to implement it by now. There's obviously the demand there, its one of the very few main functions that is missing from the Mobile version compared to the Desktop version and the best advice to give here is: Use Affinity Photo. 
Too bad Adobe dowsn't allow to open and save images with external editors in Lightroom mobile. 

As HDR photos can be shot directly with certain cams, I can understand that Adobe would argue, that its obsolete to add HDR merge functions in a more consumeroriented app like LR Mobile. But as its available in the Desktop version of the same app, its just ridiculous. 

And same can't be said about panorama images. They have the tech for this available on the desktop (not even LR Classic which of course has more features, but also the regular LR desktop application) but can't or don't want to implemeht them on mobile. For years now. I understand it might not be worth having a developer working on this from a manager's standpoint. But as a user its just frustrating. And if I start solving this through Affinity Photo I might as well just move my whole workflow over to this as its more capable and complex anyways. But I still do like the cross platform cloud functionality of LR. So. PLEASE Adobe. 

Yeah it´s a workaround - I could also access my MacBook at home from my iPad - but that´s not what we want 🙂

Bye the way: what are the costs for a Windows VM on Azure cloud. You may get it for free as a MS employee - but we probably not 🙂

Hi all,

i've found a way to have the lightroom desktop capabilities on an ipad. As a Microsoft employee myself I was looking into using Azure vm's for this and this works perfectly. The way I use it is during travelling is as follows: I sync the photos on the sd card via my ipad to onedrive. I've set up a virtual machine with lightroom desktop version installed on that. Then download the microsoft app 'RD Client' on the ipad to launch the VM and voila, you have a fully working windows pc on your ipad which works legit, no goofy software. Then on the VM i use the lightroom desktop app to merge my photo to HdR. It then automatically uplouds to the adobe cloud and you can close the vm and work further on your photo via the ipad LR app. Down below a very good video on how to setup that VM to let it work with your ipad: https://youtu.be/k0645eXL0oc?si=Fo7_R3vu3BuM7ZCm

Hi, I read everywhere that the android version of lightroom was supposed to be able to merge photos with different exposure. But I can't find this function anywhere in Lightroom mobile. I have photos taken with a Canon R6 (I don't want to take photos with my phone). Can you advise please?

I applaude your optimism @mikem91176432 

You're currently SOL!   There is no way to do HDR or Panoramas in Lightroom on the iPad 

For drone images it would be very cool

it's ridiculous how they can't implement this while throwing stuff like fake bokeh at us which is way more complex and no one asked for it. 

50% off?   interesting!    thanks 

The problem with Affinity is that it won´t create DNG panos. So the use is limited in my opinion....

Wishes Martin