Mobile Editing

The Lightroom Mobile Camera Is Actually Good Now (Here's What Changed)
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The Lightroom Mobile Camera Is Actually Good Now (Here's What Changed)

I’ll be honest with you: for a long time I treated the Lightroom Mobile camera like that bonus disc that comes with a box set. Technically included, but never actually used. My default camera app got the shot, Lightroom did the editing, and that was the whole pipeline. Then I started noticing the RAW files I was working with from my phone felt limited in a way that had nothing to do with my editing.

Lightroom Mobile Finally Gets a Brush (And Sharpening Too) - Here's How to Use Both
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Lightroom Mobile Finally Gets a Brush (And Sharpening Too) - Here's How to Use Both

If you edit photos on your phone with any regularity, you already know the specific frustration of reaching for a tool that should be there and finding nothing. For me, that tool was the brush. Every time I handed off a mobile edit workflow to a client or walked someone through Lightroom Mobile at a workshop, the question was the same: “Where’s the brush?” And every time, I had to explain that it just wasn’t there yet.

Your Phone Is a Darkroom: How I Actually Edit on Lightroom Mobile Without Losing My Mind
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Your Phone Is a Darkroom: How I Actually Edit on Lightroom Mobile Without Losing My Mind

Last spring I was sitting in the waiting room of a mechanic’s shop in East Nashville, staring at a memory card reader plugged into my phone, watching 47 RAW files sync to Lightroom Mobile. I had a client delivery due by end of day. My laptop was at home. And somehow, two hours later, I sent a fully edited gallery that the client called “the best batch yet.” That wasn’t luck.

Your Phone Is a Darkroom: How to Actually Edit in Lightroom Mobile Without Ruining Your Photos
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Your Phone Is a Darkroom: How to Actually Edit in Lightroom Mobile Without Ruining Your Photos

Last spring I was shooting a friend’s engagement session at Centennial Park when their other photographer canceled two hours before golden hour. I ended up shooting the whole thing on my Sony A7IV and editing the delivery batch on my phone that same night, because my laptop was at a repair shop with a dead keyboard. Twenty-four RAW files. Lightroom Mobile. A glass of water and a bad attitude. The edits were some of the cleanest I’ve delivered all year.

Apple's Silent RAW Revolution: What iOS 18's Core Image Engine Means for Your Mobile Editing
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Apple's Silent RAW Revolution: What iOS 18's Core Image Engine Means for Your Mobile Editing

Apple’s Silent RAW Revolution: What iOS 18’s Core Image Engine Means for Your Mobile Editing I’ve been watching Apple’s approach to computational photography for years, and I have to say—their latest move is genuinely impressive. While everyone’s obsessing over AI features and new cameras, Apple just quietly dropped one of the most important technical upgrades for mobile photographers: a complete overhaul of their RAW file processing engine. The Update Nobody’s Talking About Core Image RAW 9 doesn’t sound sexy.