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December 13, 2017
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Why is there no airbrush tool or healing brush in Lightroom Mobile?

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Why is here no airbrush tool or healing brush tool in Lightroom mobile??  This is a photo editing tool yes?  Am I the only wedding and portrait photographer that uses this thing?  Or did this get released before its ready?  Every other photo editing app out there has a basic editing tools like this, yet this power house of a program does not?  It’s solution is to export the file into photoshop fix, which btw has no airbrush.  So yes not we can spot heal, but now once saved goes back into the Lightroom library as unflagged or unfavorited from its original file?

So if a cull through an album of 500 photos down to my favorite 100 for the client, I now have the best those flagged or 5 starred to sort by that variable.  So I go though and find some photos that need fixing up, export out to photoshop fix, and save back to Lightroom.  It should just pop up on the screen in lightroom now and I can continue on my way editing the next file.  But no, I have to unsort flagged photos, scroll though the 500 photos to find the one again, flag it, and unflag the ’bad’ version next to it, then soft again by flagged or 5 stars and then move on.  Wow all of that extra work for what?

On a positive note, Lightroom for mobile is pretty cool And I like it a lot.  Aside from some buggy crashing issues, and such its great.   But seroiusly it feels like no one even beta tested this thing, or at least those people were definitely not professional wedding and family portrait photogs.

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    john beardsworth
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    john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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    December 13, 2017

    Though the 15 limit is weird, it's hard to see why you might imagine LR Mobile is designed for volume work. Lightroom "Classic" is, and don't professionals tend to use the tool that's most suitable for the job?

    There is an "airbrush" tool - look in the Selective editing tools. I agree it's surprising that there still isn't a healing brush, though that's probably less of a weakness for advanced users than Mobile's failure to sync keywords or location data with Lightroom "Classic".

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    KastphotoAuthor
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    December 13, 2017

    Because the iPad Pro 2017 benchmarks faster than most PC computers, most MacBook pros and iMac desktop computers before 2016 as well?   Imagine that?  It fast as shit and more than enough capable.  So where you at Adobe? 

    So then now knowing this, please ask me again why do I want to simply edit a a bunch of photos from a photo shoot in Lightroom Mobile, a designated on the go solution for photographers?   Maybe Im missing something but this program is mirroring its alread existing desktop program that I pay for, in a night tidy neat package.   Hmm...maybe you’re right I should probably start looking for better alternatives. 

    john beardsworth
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    john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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    December 13, 2017

    Remember this is a user-to-user forum. Maybe Adobe will read your thoughts, but don't bet on it - they will do so at the feedback page​.

    LR Mobile isn't designed for volume work. Most people also know that a touch interface isn't as good as as a laptop or desktop for volume work, and laptops are portable. Right tool for the job.....

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