Adobe Lightroom mobile - when there is a laptop on hand

market applications for enhancing your photos for a long time almost monopolized Snapseed. Thanks to a convenient and truly effective instruments, the program has established itself in the market as Lightroom Mobile OS. The developers of Adobe decided to combine their own experience in the field of desktop photo editors with the popularity of mobile photos and released their full-fledged tool to work on the iPad and iPhone, the output of which is to change situation.

Immediately spoiler: application received excellent. But with some reservations. First - you need to clearly understand whether you need to pay $ 10 a month when there is a set of free analogues. The second - depends on whether you have found the answers to the first question, and how your work is tied to the ecosystem of Adobe.

Help with the choice of a 30-day free trial, during which you'll see how often happen to use Lightroom Mobile for its intended purpose. Since it is one of the few applications that know how to work with RAW, professional photographers will certainly become the main target audience and will be satisfied with the opportunities to facilitate their a life. Excellent screen of the iPad will replace the laptop safely for primary basic image processing. All this was clear in the past, the question was only at this point how much is not outstanding internal tablet storage. Therefore, Adobe has decided to transfer all files in the cloud.

Desktop version has recently received an upgrade to version 5.4. It developers have added a feature synchronization Collections section, in which you can now select which images will appear in your tablet. Moreover, there was a Smart preview technology - lightweight version of RAW-file, which is loaded into Lightroom Mobile. Size photos at the same time significantly reduced, but is still able to edit without loss of quality, that the priority for the images of this format. File size is 1–2 MB, depending on the model of your camera, and it is quite tolerable, given the availability of 20 GB storage Creative Cloud.

As for the design, comfort and functionality of the application, then all at altitude. Lightroom Mobile looks minimalistic, all the necessary basic tools are present, and the touch control benefited from the speed of snapshots. Load the photos from the gallery or from the above collections, select the desired frame, and then proceed to treatment.

In the box you will find exif-data file in the upper left corner, a bar graph - in the upper right, and four icons under the photo. First - provides access to the gallery of the selected collection. The second - has all the basic settings of processing such as white balance adjustment, color temperature, exposure, brightness, contrast, and saturation. As with all Adobe graphics editors, you always have the possibility to revert to step backward or forward. The third - the Effects tab. All of them, except for the noise reduction presets and enhance detail, rather primitive and unlikely to be popular among users. The fourth icon is responsible for the rotation and cropping an image. Turning can be carried out in increments of 90 °, and freewheeling.

Handles photos can be exported in a variety of applications, stored in the Camera Roll, throw in one of the albums or the collection, as well as start a slideshow from the current image. functionality of the application is more than enough, but still from the company's product, creating better tools for working with graphics, you expect more. Sure, everything you need will be added over time, but so far very short of user presets and opportunities to work with curves or processing of individual sections of the image.

Eventually

Adobe Lightroom Mobile - a worthy application. Functional, convenient and beautiful, it will be a good assistant for photographers who need to quickly process images in an environment where the hand is not any computer or laptop. But this condition is still not enough. If you are using Aperture or of ACDSee, for example, it is better to look for an alternative. Your work should be closely tied to the use of Adobe products, to purchase a monthly subscription Creative Cloud paid off. Otherwise, it's just money down the drain. The app is already available for download and test in action for the iPad and iPhone. At the same time it should be at least the second generation of the tablet, and the installed version of the OS - not lower than iOS 7.

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Adobe Lightroom for iPad

Developer: Adobe Inc.

Price: Free