Mobile Editing

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

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.