Guys, it's time. My phone is more powerful than my laptop, and its screen is also more color accurate, I understand that there will always be features better suited for computers, but this is a low hanging fruit opportunity. Color calibration is key in my editing process, and it's annoying not being able to fully rely on the tool that I have the most with me, my phone, to finish my edits color wise.
Seconded. If the supposed only difference between LR Classic and mobile is meant to be local vs online storage, then there needs to be feature parity. This calibration panel absolutely does not require desktop computing resources to implement (and modern iPads are more than powerful enough these days even if it did), so there's no good reason not to have it.
Adobe, please listen: no one wants a dumbed-down, simpler editor on mobile. We want LR Classic editing on mobile.
Do you mean the camera calibration using a colorchecker chart that creates calibrated camera profiles? Do know that you can import the profiles you create using those tools just fine in Lightroom Cloudy too on your desktop and they will sync to your mobile devices. You can also have the software generate a dng file that you can load on mobile lightroom and import the profile that way if you don't use cloudy Lightroom on your desktop. There are surprisingly few people that use this type of calibration but it is useful that it is available.
Oh that is a legacy thing from very long ago. It will never be available the cloud version as sliders you can manipulate but you can create creative profiles that include these settings that will apply these settings in the cloud Lightroom. You can use camera raw to generate those. The profiles generated this way will work in Classic and cloudy both. You won't see the sliders change but it is applying them behind the scenes as a new zero point for development
It seams that many LightRoom users rely on the colour calibration menu on the Classic version (and on the Cloud version, the menu itself is disabled by default). I'm planning on using it too, since it makes it a lot easier to have balanced photos in terms of colour, so it would be great if it could be available on the mobile app also.
I edit photos on the go, and at this moment I need to spend quite a while ajusting colours using the colour mix menu. Once I get back home I often find myself discarding my colour edits and start again using the colour calibration on the Cloud version.
This has been added to desktop cloud version. Your solution doesn't do the same thing, we want to adjust these sliders for each image individually as well (or at least I do)
+1, this is missing on iPad Pro as of July 2024 for no reason because these devices are extremely performant. It is such a massively important feature for creative edits.
I generally don't understand why there are different develop settings in different versions of Lightroom. All the settings of Lightroom Classic should be in all the other apps. Otherwise this counteracts the idea of the Adobe cloud. When editing on the iPad, why should I suddenly not need a setting I use in Lr Classic?
I recently got myself an iPad Pro and tried editing some of my Photos on there using Lightrom (synced over from Lightroom Classic). Turns out, the workflow is actually pretty nice--if there just wouldn't be the one thing that kills it. It's the fact that the set of develop settings that you can modify seems to differ from each version of Lightroom to the next.
While Lightroom on the iPad is apparently able to correctly render all my adjustments made in Lightroom Classic, some just cannot be modified. One example is the camera calibration adjustment. The panel just seems to be missing. What makes it even more strange is the fact that I can apply a preset that includes camera calibration adjustments, and they will be correctly applied, but I cannot manually adjust them. The sliders are just not there.
Unfortunately, this affects some of my favourite tools, including camera calibration, the refine saturation slider for the curves, people AI masks, point colour, and curves in local adjustments.
I checked some of the other versions of Lightroom, namely the Lightroom CC desktop app, and the Lightroom CC browser version, and they all seem to differ from each other in one way or another. For example, if we stick with camera calibration, this option can be made available in the Desktop CC app by clicking the ellipsis and selecting "Show camera calibration". In the browser version, however, even though it looks practically identical, this option is not there (and I don't think there are any technical reasons preventing this).
I am aware that Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC take some different approaches when it comes to organizing photos, and that is ok. However, I think the develop settings should (wherever technically possible) be identical between the different versions that Lightroom offers, at least on desktop and tablet operating systems. Otherwise the whole Adobe Cloud workflow, while being a nice idea, is nipped in the bud.
I start to believe someone decisive at product management team of Lightroom is just sabotaging the product, because such a lack of features (which are easily implementable literally in minutes, as was said, it's just about adding the sliders, as engine is already supporting all features at all versions) is incomprehensible.
I just went ahead and "added" this feature myself by making presets that cover the ranges and increments of the calibration sliders I tend to adjust when using the versions of Lightroom that offer the sliders. As others point out, the underlying capability to respect calibration slider adjustments is there in LR Mobile's rendering engine; the sliders just aren't offered in the mobile app UI for reasons that Adobe has never shared.
So I don't have a lick of software development training or experience, but a few minutes of exploration and tinkering taught me that presets are just stored as text XMP files in my Mac's "Application Support" library folder--meaning I could just make one preset XMP file, duplicate it, and then change the tag & increment parameters on my Mac's text-edit app; lather-rinse-repeat over the ranges I want to adjust, sync my new presets to mobile, and 45 mintues later I effectively have the calibration panel in LR mobile, covered by a loooong list of presets. Finally. It's kludgy but it's there and it works. I just scroll the presets rather than slide a slider.
Which begs the question: if I, joe-nobody-who-is-not-a-software-developer-by-any-stretch-of-imagination can jam these missing sliders back into existence in about 45 minutes of tinkering . . . why can't a pro at Adobe just bang it out officially in an update? It's not like it'd take an Adobe pro any longer than it took me. I had to figure a bunch of things out along the way; none of you do.
Just super weird that these sliders are still missing. Super, super weird.
Please introduce the calibration sliders to the iPad version of Lightroom. I need to edit photos on the go and this tool is essential in my workflow. It will save me having to lug a laptop with me for travel shoots.
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