Raw Technology Preview for Lightroom for Android and Major Lightroom on the Web Improvements

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1. Please don’t take this as negative, but it seems you don’t really get what Lightroom users actually NEED. Instead of adding more frills, please make the product faster/more responsive etc etc etc. I run an i7 4790K overclocked to 4.6GHz, 32GB RAM, GTX970 4GB, and I have to go away for the best part of an hour when importing D810 RAWs from a days shoot – my camera and LR CC 2015 have been out for the best part of two years now – surely Adobe can do better, if it REALLY wants to make a difference?

   1. I agree that a major performance update is required. I also want a better way to deal with RAW+JPEG. Aperture apparently did this well. And a brightness slider, and better clarity. And adjustment layers.

      1. Yes thank you!

   2. Thanks for the feedback Stephan. The desktop team has heard this feedback and is working on improving it. The Android and Web teams are actually different teams and today’s release of new Android and Web does not have any impact (positive or negative) to the performance of the desktop application.

      Making speed and performance improvements is a primary goal of the desktop team. For example, in Lightroom Desktop 2015.6.1, a lot of effort went into improving the memory usage in the develop module, which considerably improved interaction speed. The team remains committed to improving the experience and focusing on speed and reliability.

      1. That’s great, but it’s nowhere near enough. Phase offers dramatically superior support and performance, tools and options than desktop Lightroom., such as Tethered Capture, batch output, and critical tools like as single pixel noise reduction, and more powerful colour targeting and adjustments etc. Photo Mechanic’s ability to review a giant folder of RAWs instantly blows away everything else for culling edits, and I still have to go into photoshop for things like liquify. I like LR – but it’s so slow performance wise, and underpowered for professional use. Please improve it. It’s great by design, it just needs to get much better. It’s nowhere nearly as professional as it should be.

2. Hi, are you properly coping with Fuji RAW images in this release? Just trying to decide whether to cancel my subscription and move to Capture One, or hold off if you’ve fixed it yet?

3. Great to see more features added to the Android and web versions of Lightroom, I really like that! Thank you very much!

   The only thing I don’t understand, is that it seems impossible to add more photos to an already shared group of images. Previously this would not have mattered less, but now that its possible to add text and dividers, its a cumbersome workflow.
   Image if you have taken the time to lay out your images nicely and put some text between then only to then notice that you have forgotten a few. The only way to get them in is to create a new share. This means to do the work again and you also have to distribute the new link again to everybody that already has the old link.

   It would be great if one could just add more images from different collections to the existing share.

   1. You can actually. If you go into the all photos view (or one of the collections) select a photo and then click on Copy To, you can select the shared collection from the list 🙂

      1. Great, that works indeed (although not on the mobile version of the site for some reason).
         Thanks!

         I expected the icon on the top right of the shared gallery to let me choose images from other collections instead of uploading new ones. I also looked for an option in the share menu to share to an existing gallery, but I didn’t think of the copy menu.

         Anyway, I’m really glad that it works 🙂

4. complete nonsense to focus on crappy mobile apps….

   1. Could you perhaps expand on what you’d like to get then? Something a bit more constructive maybe?

      1. what thousands mention on the lightroom feedback page from adobe…. maybe you have to read it!

         1. Well, we do (myself included) read those. I was asking what _YOU_ were looking for. I mean, you’ve got the attention of one of the product managers for the product 😉

            1. Why so snippy?

            2. Quicker RAW updates (I’ve had my new Sony for over 2 months and can’t use it to its full extent), performance improvements, performance improvements, performance improvements!

               I’m on an i7 6700k overclocked to 4.8ghz, GTX 1080, and 32gb ram and I constantly experience hangups and slower speeds in Lightroom. It’s unbelievable, really.

               So basically, as Karl said, what thousands mention on the lightroom feedback page that seems to be forgotten. Lightroom mobile is an interesting idea, maybe, for your average “phone as a camera” consumer, but in the meantime you’re losing professional customers because they can’t stand using your product.

            3. Hey Joe, definitely appreciate the feedback.

               I totally get where you are coming from and we really appreciate you taking the time to explain your perspective.

               The reality is that the team that’s building the Android and iOS products have absolutely nothing to do with the Desktop product. They’re separate teams of hard-working, able engineers that are very mobile-centric. It’s not possible to take these engineers and put them on the desktop team.

               Speed and stability improvements are a HUGE priority to the desktop team. It’s a constant point of discussion because we DO read all of these posts, blogs, comments, emails, etc.

               So while I don’t want to make empty promises about when you’ll see solutions to these issues, all I can say is that we do hear the points regarding speed improvements and take these comments very seriously. I wish I could offer more insight at this point…

5. I actually rather like the “crappy mobile apps”. Of course I use LR and PS on my desktop but when I’m on the go and need to publish something quickly, Lightroom for iPhone is great. It would be to have custom presets like on desktop

   1. Yes! Definitely hear you. I want custom presets too =D

6. Still eagerly awaiting the day that tags can be applied to photos on mobile. I bought a keyboard for my iPad almost exclusively so I could use Photosmith which unfortunately was discontinued.

   Wonder if someone at Adobe has downloaded Photosmith and played with that to see how the tagging could work on mobile? Albeit with Adobe’s much better Lightroom mobile photo sync. Photosmith’s photo sync was always a bit flaky for me.

   Note I’m not a pro, just someone who has several cameras, likes taking photos and then finding them easily later. Also well aware of auto tagging functionality like Imagga but sees that there will always be a need for applying tags that aren’t auto, such as “jane’s 40th party” or “work drinks” or “sunday service” or “cleanup working bee”.

   1. Yes, you’re right. We understand that regardless of the amazing abilities of auto key wording (which we do have high hopes for) there will still be scenarios in which manual tags (of some sort) will be needed.

7. I’m absolutely loving Lightroom mobile (iOS) so far but there are just 3 features that would allow me to switch to a 100% mobile workflow. 1. Healing brushes! The current feature of opening up the file in adobe fix works just fine, but when saving back to lightroom mobile it flattens all my settings to a dng file. Most the time that is ok but when I have to go back to an image to edit particular raw settings, I can’t. 2. The ability to import/sync with the desktop presets, or at least create and save custom presents in mobile. Ex. copy settings and save to a preset, etc. 3. The ability to “full screen” cull from the lightning to SD card camera kit. I can import to the camera roll with the kit using the photos app but I don’t have full screen previews to know exactly what I’m importing and most the time importing “all” is just too many pictures to manage on my iPad pro. I’m imagining a dialog coming up “in lightroom mobile” showing all the images on my SD card, possibly the option to swipe up and down to import or discard. Or a simple “tap” to include in the import. Just hoping for a few more features so I can move editing completely mobile! Thank you for this great software!

   1. Thanks for the really detailed feedback Jeff. To answer your points:

      1. Healing brushes: Yes, this is definitely on our radar and we’re exploring how to make this happen. Healing, and doing it right, is a very memory and CPU/GPU intensive action. Making it work stably, along side all of the other tools running in Lightroom Mobile, at full resolution, without becoming incredibly slow, is not easy, though it is something we are actively working on.

      2. Import / Sync desktop presets: This is another item on our radar and that is being worked on.

      3. Better import on iOS: We hear you, however we don’t have much control over this. We do not currently have access to importing directly from a camera or SD card on iOS; all import actions must first go through Apple Photos on iOS, and then we can import from there. This announcement for Android does enable us to import directly from the camera via PTP, however there too you cannot view at 100% until after the image has been imported. This is due to the speed (including overhead) of the USB + PTP connection. Fetching the thumbnails, then fetching a 1:1 version of a particular image is actually quite slow. Definitely understand the need to pixel peep and transfer over ONLY the files you want. It’s definitely something we want to and are exploring on our side, as well as discussing with the camera manufacturers to see if there is some possibility to improve this experience.

      We’re definitely dedicated to making mobile photography even better, regardless if that means acting as a culling, editing, and sharing extension of your camera, or acting also as the capture device.

8. To be perfectly honest, I would like more versatility in keywords. Such as being able to pick a particular keyword and then narrow it down by choosing a couple more keywords without having to put keyword trees in.

   1. Great feedback, thanks! Definitely interested in making this work better for you and we are indeed working on ways of making keywords and other filters work better.

9. Hi, when Android version will have the same tools as IOS? the only thing that stops me from sign on desktop version. Thanks

   1. Version 2.0 of Android reached feature parity with iOS. With version 2.1, we actually started implementing features on Android BEFORE they were implemented on iOS, based off of unique capabilities in Android (specifically, Android was able to capture in DNG before iOS was able to). Now, version 2.2 actually has slightly better support for importing raw files, as we have our own import experience that is faster and reduces space requirements compared to the iOS import experience.

      The point is, the Android and iOS apps are constantly evolving, and working to both stay in sync with each other while also working to take advantage of the unique offerings found on either platform. Android does in some situations take longer than iOS as there are roughly 10 devices that we need to support on iOS and literally over 10,000 devices that currently match our minimum requirements for Android. Call that opportunity or fragmentation, no matter which way you spin it, it’s a lot more complicated platform to develop for.

      We’re definitely committed to and continue to grow the Android team for Lightroom and hope you like the progress that the team has made in the past year 🙂

10. PTP doesn’t work for me (Nexus 6P, Nougat, all up to date) and Lumix GX85.
    It seems to try to initiate PTP and fails right away, goes back to try to charge.

    1. Are you using an OTG cable that is USB-C directly to your camera or are you using a USB-C connector to your OTG cable? We did notice that some phones in combination with some cameras didn’t work if you used a USB-C connector instead of a USB-C OTG cable.

11. I would love to see ChromeOS support, especially with the majority of new Chromebooks being able to fold into a tent formation, would be wonderful to work a picture while tethered.

12. I have Lightroom 6.0.1 on mac, i have never been able to update this version.
    Yes i have followed instructions and directions from the Adobe site but i just cant get it to work.
    I am sure this is because you at Adobe are wanting people to use this product as the CC version as opposed to the standalone which i have.
    Regardless i am frustrated that i have spent alot of money on 2 standalone versions of lightroom and they are becoming outdated.
    I have tried many times to contact Adobe about this and have never had a response.
    Looks like im going to use Macphuns “Luminar” instead and delete Adobe, such a waste of money.

    1. If you have 6.0.1 installed you simply need to download the 6.7 file from here and apply. http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2013/06/keeping-lightroom-up-to-date.html

       When you do do you receive an error message?

13. Hello,
    Could you first work to upgrade camera raw instead LR web ?
    We can’t import Sony RX 100 Mark V raws !
    RX 100 MK V is sold for 2 weeks now…

14. Good luck Aidan, I have been begging, pleading for Lightroom mobile or web to provide key wording ability since they were introduced, respectively. I couldn’t even get a person at Adobe to acknowledge the question. Then, something like two years later, they responded to same question from someone else in a different forum with “we’ll look into that.” So as another comment stated, they come out with all these frills and “crap” for the mass/wanna-bes and something as critical and simple as keywords they couldn’t act more apathetic and cavalier about.

    1. Here is the official feature request for this: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/keywording_on_the_move

       Have you added your +1 and thoughts here?

15. That sounds great. And I would have wished for the more direct connection to Portfolio before.

    But what I would really wish for is support for multiple catalogs.
    My main catalog is 1.6 Gigabyte in size (and compress and backup it each week as proposed by Lightroom).
    In addition to that I have other (smaller) catalogs which I use for ongoing projects.
    But I can’t use Lightroom mobile for those.

16. Hello
    with the ability to use raw files and beeing able to tag and rate images it starts to become intresting for me. The question is – can I synchronize it with my LR catalog *without* the need to go via a cloud? Like connecting the device via USB and have LR synchronize with the mobile devices “catalog” ?
    Uli

    1. Ok – I found out – it seems not to be possible to synch with LR without going via the cloud. Apart from not wanting a subscription (never!) – I will not upload my data to a cloud anyway. It would have been nice to be able to keyword, rate and do albums on the mobile device when travelling and then be able to synch at home with my catalog. It would be a dream to connect via USB or Network to LR on my PC and synch. On each synch loop I could then decide on which images I need as raw on my mobile and which ones I only need previews of.
       Anyway – when I tried the app I coudn’t even import any serious number of images. I tried with 3000 jpgs already residing on my SDcard as a first go and it simply crashes (Samsung S7). I could import 200 – but well … that’s a joke.
       Ok – and after all keywords are still missing. And as someone said above RAW editing seems only possible with a subscription … No thanks! Too bad I’ll uninstall the app again.
       Uli

17. The sharing is great but the comments are greater!

18. Very very cool !!!

19. I don’t get any of the PTP options on my Galaxy Note 5. Just a notification that says USB drive. Tap here to transfer media files. When I do, an Android file explorer opens. That’s it.

    1. Some cameras require that you turn PTP on in the playback settings. Could you check there?

       1. I dont think Canon 6D has such capability to do PTP. There is a work around—get a tiny card reader and hook it to the OTG cable. It will appear in your android’s device storage. Then select the raw files and COPY them to one of the folders on your device that Lightroom mobile normally uses. Lightroom mobil will import the raw files from there. It should be easier but I think Canon does not want to play.

20. Very nice.
    What I would like to see in Lr/Portfolio combo is for Portfolio to be able to access and use metadata in the images, specifically Title and Caption data added in Lightroom. Maybe this would require users to save the metadata to the image or its xmp file, I don’t know. Surely you guys/gals can figure that out.

21. We really need local adjustments in Lightroom Mobile. We shouldn’t have to switch to Photoghop Fix. we need healing/clone brush, graduated filter, radial filter, and adjustment brush.

    Also when we send a public link to a client, the client a view the link without signing in to an adobe account, however he can’t comment back without an Adobe account. He should be able as most clients do not have Adobe Accounts.

    1. Thanks for this feedback!

       Totally understand and agree that you want to be able to accomplish local adjustments within Lightroom without having to switch to another app.

       Also understand your desire to not force your users to sign in.

       We’re working to improve these points.

22. Can somebody help to configure usb options for nexus 7+ Nikon D610 (usb OTG cable include). Nexus do not recognize the camera eater give notification to select ptp mode. In the card reader nexus notify the card but doesn’t give ptp selection => I can not import RAW files. I use marshmallow 6.0.1 and ligthtroom mobile 2.0.1

    1. Wasn’t sure if it’s a typo or not, but you need to be using Lightroom Mobile 2.2.x to use the OTG / raw functionality…

       1. There was typo. lightroom version 2.2.x and marshmallow in nexus7. I plug nexus to pc and changed transfer method to ptp but this doesn’t help. According to my understanding there are no ptp/mtp setting possibilities on Nikon D610

          1. The PTP mode would be on your camera and not something you would set by connected your phone to your PC, however it does seem from a quick google search that the D610 doesn’t need to be switched to PTP mode.

             As I don’t have a Nexus 7 and D610 combination, I can’t confirm if there’s a problem or not with that combination. I have connected other Nikon cameras to my Nexus devices running on Marshmallow and Nougat though, so it _should_ work…

             1. Issue solved. Root cause was Bad usb Cable. Now Works fine.

23. I really like the feature that makes it possible to transfer files via OTG cable. I normally shoot raw and there are situations where it would be very handy to be able to transfer pictures from camera to lightroom mobile, do some develop adjustments and forward the picture via email or share it in other ways. But I cannot make it work. I have a Nexus 6P, Lightroom Mobile 2.2 an a panasonic GX7. Trying to follow the instructions but when tapping notification to import only a standard Andoid file browser is opened, no lightroom import view. Seems like others above have the same or similar problems.

    1. Did you update to the latest first? Also, are you sure that your camera is set to PTP mode? Finally, are you using an OTG cable with a USB-C end?

       1. Thanks, yes, my camera was not set PTP mode by default. Now I do get the lightroom import dialog/view 🙂

          It will however only list jpeg files from the camera, not raws. I will experiment more. Not to worried about that right now, I am about to buy a Nikon D500 and hope it works with that one, because this will be an awesome feature.

          1. Are you shooting raw + JPEG? Curious why you’re not seeing the raws on your camera, but I don’t have a GX7. The raw files show up fine for me on my three cameras.

24. will there be a new lightroom version for desktop or is adobe just focusing on the mobile apps now?

    are smartphone zombies really using a raw converter for their snapshots?

    1. Our desktop team has been and continues to release updates for the desktop. They are independent of the mobile team.

       And as a “smartphone zombie” (*BRAINZZZZZZ*) I do edit the vast majority of my images on my smart phone. I seem to be getting decent results 😉

25. Salut Josh,
    No answer to my question : what’s about raw support for SONY RX100 MK V ?

26. What OTG cable do I need for my Nikon D3300. I can’t find the correct cable. My camera does not have a micro input.

    1. I’m not really sure which connection is used on the Nikon side. The combination of the following two cables _may_work:

       https://www.amazon.com/dCables-Nikon-D3300-USB-Cable/dp/B00HWZE56G

       https://www.amazon.com/eBoot-Adapter-Converter-Android-Tablets/dp/B01LZ6FY17/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479424803&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=usb+a+otg&psc=1

       Though it may also not work, so make sure you keep the box and receipt in case you need to return it 🙂

27. Hi Adobe Team, the LRM Import Dialog tags my TIFF images as RAW, could you label them as TIFF instead?

    1. Good point…but where are you creating TIFF files from?

       1. I am sometimes using dcraw on my device to output 16-bit linear TIFF files from the DNGs before further processing in LRM

          1. Why are you using DCraw instead of Lr to convert your raw files?

             1. I am doing image stacking before load into LRM

             2. The mobile device has quite limited capabillities so if i do image stacking there (dcraw, imagemagick on the go, i dont aleays have a laptop with me to us PS / LR) the result is a TIFF file which i load into LRM for further processing

28. First – Love lightroom mobile and use it daily – ( I use a wifi enabled canon 80 D to connect and download images.) the downside is canon’s software is limited. I have to download and then import into lightroom and then edit. is there anyway that tethering can be enabled on IOS so images can go straight into lightroom and edits be applied during import as on a PC? or am I asking for the moon?
    Also would add my request for more selective editing in lightroom to avoid the need to go into fix for healing brush etc.

    1. Thanks for the feedback!

       We’re definitely working on adding selective to Android, please stay tuned 🙂

       Wrt tethering, it’s something we’ve looked at though it is quite complicated due to the wide range of different tethering approaches that each manufacturer, and sometimes even each different camera uses. So it’s on the list, but I’m not sure how soon you’d see it…

29. Just wanted to say thanks to Josh Haftel for chipping in with responses. One of the first times that I can remember seeing an Adobe PM giving such quick feedback, and also not just yes/no responses.

    Makes visiting this blog and being invested in the Adobe services encouraging 🙂

    I was in Europe for 5 weeks in August and for the first time used LR Mobile to import and modify my photos, through a OTG cable from Sony Z3C with a large microSD card to Olympus EM5 mk II, though I wished I could just sync over Wifi as I corrupted two microSD cards doing this. Retired Aviary and the other apps I was using. I didn’t even consider LR Mobile when I was in India the year before. It’s come far!

    Ta!

    1. You’re welcome! I love working for a company that has so many enthusiastic customers. Makes writing and responding to these blogs that much more fun (yes, even the few trolls that I can’t help but feed) =D

       Syncing over wifi would be great, and it’s something we’re pushing for in the industry since it’d be much easier (I already sync my JPEGs via wifi, I want raw and I want it yesterday =D).

30. What OTG cable do I need for my Nikon D3300. I can’t find the correct cable. My camera does not have a micro input. Is it even possible to use this new technology with my D3300? HELP!

    1. Copy / paste from above in your first request:

       I’m not really sure which connection is used on the Nikon side. The combination of the following two cables _may_work:

       https://www.amazon.com/dCables-Nikon-D3300-USB-Cable/dp/B00HWZE56G

       https://www.amazon.com/eBoot-Adapter-Converter-Android-Tablets/dp/B01LZ6FY17/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479424803&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=usb+a+otg&psc=1

       Though it may also not work, so make sure you keep the box and receipt in case you need to return it

31. When i export my pictures and upload them to web service like facebook they suffer from artifacts (through recompression). I would very much appreciate if you could maybe add an option for PNG Export to LRM or maybe add an option to set the JPG compression Level.

    1. Facebook is doing the compression, that’s just one of the costs for a “free” service :/

       Hear you regarding the ability to set compression levels and / or PNG output.

       1. Thanks for your comment Josh, i am looking forward and hope it can be integrated in an later update 🙂

32. Darn these CMAs (crappymobileapps) letting me view, edit and share my library wherever I go!

    Seriously though, nice work. I know that there are far more pressing issues for those more advanced than I, but I’d like to see multiple catalogs one day and the ability to share individual ones with others.

    Also on a purely aesthetic point, would it be possible to make the collection thumbnails larger by pinching (as per photos within the collection) although then the ‘options’ would have to move somewhere.

    I don’t want to make it into Revel, honest, but it did look quite nice, albeit with less ability.

    1. Thanks for the comments Reed. Multiple catalogs are a request that many people have asked for, across various skill levels and something that we’re constantly discussing to figure out how to make it possible.

       Agreed about the desire to pinch / zoom, another thing we’re discussing!

33. Nice update to Web version of Lightroom sharing but it makes Lightroom more confusing to use as different platforms behave differently – those Web shares aren’t showing up on Lightroom desktop and iOS (I’m assuming).

    Together with the mistake you made with unsyncing of Collections (photos do not become unsynced anymore when unsyncing a Collection from desktop) Lightroom is soon becoming an inconsistent place.

    Adding photos to Adobe Portfolio is very welcome, and hoping it becomes available on Lightroom desktop as well.

    1. Lightroom.adobe.com is a web service and completely separate from Lightroom for Android.

34. Hi. Can I use Lightroom 2.2 for Android without an adobe or cloud account? Are all features available to use
    without an account. I see various conflicting views expressed on this matter. Thanks

    1. While you can use most of the functionality of Lightroom for Android for free, there are some features that require a Creative Cloud license. Those features are:

       * Editing raw files imported from your phone (though you can import raw files and export JPEGs in the free version)
       * Synchronizing with Lightroom desktop

       1. Thanks Josh, just to ensure I understand your answer correctly. If I shoot in RAW on my Samsung S7 I can process these images on my lightroom for android without a creative cloud license. If I use my Canon 760D I would need a license to process these. Is that correct.

          1. DNG files, the type of raw captured natively on Android and iOS devices, are fully supported for in the free version of Lightroom mobile.

             Native raw formats, such as Canon’s raw files, can be imported into Lightroom as a free user and can be exported into a JPEG file, however they cannot be edited except with a creative cloud membership.

35. Hi Josh, since the latest updates we got lens correction profiles which is really a great feature, i am somehow wondering if we could get an option to import custom lens correction profiles?

    1. Thanks for the request Thomas. We’re working on adding better support for custom profiles, just not clear what the timing for this new feature is yet.

       1. Great news, Thanks Josh!

36. is lightroom for the desktop dead?

    1. No, Lightroom desktop was updated recently in: http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2016/09/lightroom-cc-2015-7-now-available.html

37. One issue I have is that these features aren’t mentioned within the app, so I have no idea when you add a new feature or not. You have some onboarding, but I really have no idea what is available to me outside of Library/Develop, which is where I spend 100% of my time. Maybe give hints and suggestions or an onboarding dialogue for each new version to explain and explore new features?

38. I have a similar issue to an earlier post where I can only see the jpeg files from my camera and not my RAW images. I am using a Panasonic G80 and lightroom on the desktop sees the RAWs fine. I wonder if it’s something to do with the way panasonic deal with their files?

39. wow look at that nice tethering module.. and what get we adobe users? more mobile stuff for the noobs.

    https://www.phaseone.com/de-DE/Products/Software/Capture-One-Pro/Whats-new.aspx

    1. I don’t understand the premise of your complaint. If you like another software better, then just use it. I for my part never missed features like focusing in the tethering module, for that I just use the tethering utility of my camera and let Lightroom watch the folder. It would make very little difference for me if Lightroom had a more powerful tethering module.

       Also I don’t understand why Lightroom mobile should only be for noobs. Client proofing on the web or on a tablet is not exactly noob stuff. Having the ability to structure the gallery you present to the client and to add some text certainly doesn’t hurt.

       Quite amusingly most people complaining here don’t seem to understand at all how the software is developed. Lightroom mobile and Lightroom desktop are two completely different software products. This means separate teams, separate releases and most importantly that it is quite unproductive to have the mobile developers working on the desktop software and vice versa. Still there are tons of people commenting below this Lightroom mobile announcement, saying that they should have improved the desktop software instead. I don’t see these people complaining about stuff in Photoshop when a new version of Premiere Pro comes out. So why here?

       1. I can’t comment re: the LrD tethering module, as Bastiaan said, we’re different teams. All of the other points here are spot on, thanks 🙂

40. Loving the improvements to Lightroom Mobile for iOS – I recommend that app to anyone within earshot of me. I sometimes see some inconsistencies with the way color is handled when shooting DNG, though, particularly with low-light images on iPhone 7. The preview image looks rather muted, then when I tap to start editing, colors shift and are suddenly more saturated.

    Also, feature request: I’d love to see batch image download as an option on Lightroom for Web!

    1. Thanks for your support Simon!

       As far as the changing of color and tone in a DNG goes, it’s something we’re working on. DNGs, like all raw files, have a JPEG thumbnail that is embedded in them and provided by the camera, in this case the iPhone. The camera uses its own proprietary methods of rendering the file which we cannot match (and often don’t want to match). This happens in Lightroom Desktop as well as any other raw processor. The difference with mobile is that we’re dealing with a device with less system memory and processor resources, which means we can’t render the raw file in the background like we do in Lightroom desktop. On mobile, we wait until you present some clear explicit indication that you want to work on the file, since otherwise it’d chew through your battery, slow down interaction with the app (like if all you wanted to do is preview an image), as well as increase the likelihood of running out of memory and crashing.

       We are currently exploring how to improve the situation though, since it is rather jarring for the image to change so much after moving a slider.

41. Hey Josh,

    Thanks for being so great with answering all these questions! Always awesome to see a PM active like this!

    I would like to see four main improvements to the Lightroom on Android app.

    1. Significant performance improvements in regards to the time it takes for a change on a slider to be seen on the image. (See Snapseed RAW editing performance being near real-time on Android.

    2. I’m not a fan of the User Interface of the Android app, but I’ve recently seen the new iOS app have a much better interface with sliders that resemble Lightroom on Desktop much more closely which makes things Far easier. Would really like to see either that interface on Android, or an improved version of it.

    3. More cloud storage to sync photos. Currently I use the Photography plan, as I don’t have much use for the rest of the Adobe creative cloud suite. As a result I’m limited by the amount of storage I can sync to the Adobe cloud. I’d like either an increase in storage available to the photography plan, or an option to pay for added storage separately so that I can sync reliably between my mobile device and desktop Lightroom, for improved workflow.

    4. Custom Presets, preferably synced between Desktop/Mobile. Really want my VSCO Film presets and others that I’ve made on my mobile device. I’m aware of the workaround with a collection and the whole copy and paste settings, but that’s super slow (takes time for the editing sliders to show up to even copy settings), and really unintuitive.

    Lightroom with these improvements will quickly be able to strongly compete with apps like VSCO Cam (which still doesn’t have RAW support on Android), and Snapseed (in many ways far too simplistic) on Android.

    Keep up the great work!

    Thanks!

    Stefan

    1. Thanks for all of the great feedback, Stefan! I’ve shared your feedback with the team.

       1. We’re always focusing on improving speed, and have some great improvements in line that we hope to have available soon.

       2. The new interface is being worked on other surfaces, including Lr Android, with improvements.

       3. Currently, the online cloud sync is focused on smart previews, and as such doesn’t have any limits for those. The storage plan part of Creative Cloud is actually separate from Lightroom 🙂

       4. Totally hear you on the sync presets, and it’s being worked on.

       Thanks again!

42. how to download the this app?

43. Why are there features in the iOS version of the app that aren’t available in the Android version?

    Under that’s the brush/mask tool has been added to selective edits on the iOS version, and although the Android app recently had a big overhaul it wasn’t part of the additions.

    Selective edits is only available if I’m paying for a creative cloud membership, which I am, but I feel it’s unfair features are not distributed at the same time to both mobile operating systems.

    Can Android users of creative cloud get a discount on our fee as we are being given less features than Apple users.

44. I have been using Capture One for along time

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