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As of this writing, Lightroom Mobile is without any doubt the best Photo Editing App available on both Android and Apple iOS app stores. Adobe has been pushing out new updates and features steadily to the Mobile version of the Lightroom. If you are using this app for the first time, it would surely be confusing a bit. Don't worry, follow this simple guide to start editing your photos on Mobile using Lightroom in no time.  Is it free to use Lightroom Mobile? Yes and No. Adobe allows you to use almost all basic photo editing features for free. However, if you want to use advanced features like gradients, geometry corrections, healing tools, etc, you would need a subscription.  File Format Adobe lets you edit a number of Photo file formats. Your phone camera by default shoots Jpeg (.jpg ) files. There are modern iPhones that shoot HEIF files which are better than older jpg files. Even though you can edit these files in Lightroom and Snapseed, these file formats are not desi

Long Exposure Photography is a great way to be creative and make something unique with your camera, whether it be with a giant DSLR or your pocketable Smartphone. If you have never taken a long exposure photo in your life, you came to the right place. Read the how-to basics below. What is Long Exposure Photography? When you click a pic with your phone or camera, the shutter opens and closes, capturing the scene on to the sensor, thereby recording a 'Picture'. When there is a lot of light, this opening and closing of the shutter would be instant. Long Exposure photography is a way of taking a picture by letting the shutter open for longer periods of time - mostly seconds - and let the sensor capture everything that's happening in the scene during the time it is exposed. Those light trail shots and light painting shots you saw online are created by using this technique.  What's the Ideal scenario to take Long Exposure or Slow Shutter photos? Let's assume you ar

Long Exposure Photography lets you expose a scene for many seconds and lets you create unique images. Light trails, Star Trails, Milky Way Galaxy shots, Light Painting etc are all created using various Long Exposure photography techniques. Is it possible to shoot Long Exposure on Mobile ? Answer is Yes .. and No. In order to shoot a long exposure, your phone must come with a Pro mode where you can choose a slower shutter speed. Many manufactures like LG Mobiles, Huawei, Honor, OnePlus etc have a Pro mode build in to their default camera app. Google Pixel phones on the other hand do not have a Pro mode and there is no way to shoot traditional long exposure photographs with those. Another way is to find a third party app that can shoot in lower shutter speeds. Lightroom Mobile Camera for an example has a Pro mode that lets you shoot manual and adjust ISO and shutterspeed. The problem here is, while the default camera app often supports up to 30 secs exposure, Lrmobile camera on ma

They say, the best camera is the one you have in your pocket. We walk around every day with a camera in our pocket attached to our phones. Even though these smartphones are equipped with tiny image sensors, you can still take some great shots with it. Here are a few tips to get great photos with your Android smartphone or Apple iPhone Learn to Edit. Almost all photographers on Instagram with millions of photographers edit their photos. For some, there are even dedicated teams working on images to create masterpieces. There is this new trend of people posting #nofilter or #noedit photos on the gram. By doing that, you are not giving anything your own to the image. In order to stand out from the crowd, you have to learn to edit the photos you took and add your own style to the images. Learn to edit. Some of the popular photo editing softwares available on Android Play Store are Google Snapseed , Polarr , Adobe Lightroom Mobile etc. At first, you are sure going to make less impressi