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August 18, 2023
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Lightroom Mobile for Android. It's close, just needs a few more improvements

  • August 18, 2023
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Adobe Lightroom Mobile for Android is the future.

Why?

Android has far and above the greatest market share in the mobile device industry.

Operating System, Quarterly Market Share - August 2023

Android 70.89%
iOS 28.36%

(Source: https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/android-vs-apple-market-share/)

This is set to increase as people, like me, can't afford to buy iPad Pro's, however much we'd like one. The global economy is in serious trouble and we no longer have the disposable income for Apple products. This is set to worsen, especially in Western economies.

The energy consumption of tablets and phones is miniscule compared to desktop and even laptop computing. This is an important factor and certainly for me as I try and keep energy bills to a minimum (energy costs have risen four fold in the UK over the past two years).

For Lightroom Mobile, I use a Doogee T30 Pro I bought for £149. These cheaper devices now have the processing power to use Lightroom Mobile smoothly and the screens are good enough for the task.

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Wurstkrapfen
Inspiring
August 20, 2023

Missing things:

- no option to select multiple albums to store locally

- no mass copying of photo orientation (not cropping but 90° turns of the whole image)
- no mass "auto settings"

- no mass "update AI masks"

- no "jump to album" feature when searching a photo or even any info where this photo is located

- crop tool is "unlocked" in most situations, used to be always "locked" (which I found more useful), but locked by default in some cases (no consistency here)

- when naming people, don't jump to the just names person when going back, I wanted to continue with the unamed, now I have to scroll back down and find where I was

- no option to convert "likes" into "picks" or anything that can be filtered

- Uploads/Downloads only happening when the screen is on, so annyoing, I created a 6h lowres black video I can play to keep the device running

- no checking of likes or granting access to shared albums with the "use mobile data" switched off, it's about huge amounts of data, downloading / uploading original files, granting access to a shared album is not going to waste lot of mobile data

- refusing to edit a photo because it can't download the smart preview with "mobile data: off" while it says at the same time the original full file is available on the phone (as it was just imported and uploaded a few minutes ago on this device)

Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 18, 2023

Feature requests are one per thread:

Moving to discussions: 

 

Please read: https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/how-do-i-write-a-feature-request/idi-p/12386378

 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
Known Participant
August 18, 2023

Anyway, thanks for your time and I hope this helps.

 

Kindest regards,

 

Mike

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August 18, 2023

Multiple image processing

 

- Option to select multiple images and at least apply presets to all at once

 

Export

 

- Need .png option for export

 

Hardware compatibility

 

- Adobe colour profiles for mobile devices. You can switch to application managed screen colours to achieve sat, 95% Adobe RGB colour accuracy.

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August 18, 2023

Detail

 

- High Pass sharpening;

- Frequency separation;

- AI based noise reduction;

- AI based pixel level upscaling.

 

Subject removal/Healing

 

- Selection needs improvement, it's limited, difficult to use and the results are not good. Leaves smearing. Perhaps AI based wou

ld do it.

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August 18, 2023

Lens corrections

 

- Full catalogue of lens Adobe profiles, including new Chinese lenses from 7Artisans, TTartisan, Mr. Ding, Laowa etc. These lenses are becoming very popular due to the price/performance ratio;

- Option to import Adobe lens profiles;

- Improved chromatic aberration removal algorithm;

- Two droppers to sample aberrations, one for green, one for purple. This is for spherochromatism removal.

Known Participant
August 18, 2023

Presets

 

- Option to completely remove presets from the library, not just hide;

- Option to export part of, or the entire user preset library to device;

- Compatibility with Really Nice Images (RNI) presets;

- Adobe's own highly accurate film emulation preset pack, available for purchase only. Call it, The Adobe Artisans Film Emulation Compendium.

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August 18, 2023

I've made a list of recommended improvements needed to really complete Lightroom Mobile for Android to the point it can completely replace the need for a desktop PC or laptop.