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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...

Adobe has just released  Lightroom 5.2 for Mobile with some new features. You can now import the presets saved to your device or from connected online services such as Google Drive and use them on your mobile while editing. If you are subscribed to Lrmobile, you can also get support for the latest Cameras and Lenses on Mobile while editing raw images from your DSLR or Mirrorless camera.  How to Import Presets to Lightroom Mobile? First, open an Image in Lrmobile and then click on Presets in the bottom bar. Click on the top 3 dot menu to reveal more options. You can find the Import Presets option there. Presets with . lrtemplate extensions can be imported.  Download Lightroom Mobile 5.2 from PlayStore

RawTherapee 5.8 is now available to download and comes with some new features. It now supports CR3 - a raw image format used by Canon DSLRs and Mirrorless bodies. It also comes with a new awesome feature called Capture Sharpening tool which can automatically recover detail lost to lens blur due to diffraction. Rawtherapee is already very good at sharpening images, this new feature makes it better. Download RawTherapee 5.8 AppImage from here ( you don't need .deb file ) How to Install an Appimage? It's actually easy and simple. Right-click the downloaded AppImage and go to properties. Under the Permissions tab, tick ' Allow executing file as Program '. Now right-click on the file and click RUN.  RawTherapee 5.8 is also available for Windows and macOS ( check here ) New features since 5.7: Automatically recover detail lost to lens blur (diffraction) using the new Capture Sharpening tool, located in the "Raw" tab. It takes place right after demosaici...

Lightroom Mobile App is a Free to Download app available on Google Play Store as well as Apple Appstore. Even though this is a subscription based app, all basic editing features are available without the need for a monthly subscription.  By moving a few sliders, you can easily create better looking images out of your DNG raw image ( or jpg images ). Try below basic edits with your photos and see the difference.  Decrease Highlights ( -70 ) Increase Shadows ( +30 ) Increase Clarity ( +20 ) Increase Texture ( +20 ) Increase Dehaze ( +10 ) Vibrance ( +40 ) Saturation ( -10 ) Contrast ( +20 )  Adjust Whites and Blacks to your Taste To see Before and After Edits, just long press on the image in Lrmobile. If you have Blue sky in your Landscape photo, to make it more colorful and punchy, go to Colors-Mix in Lightroom Mobile and decrease Luminance of the Blue channel to -50 or so and Increase Saturation to +20. If you have a lot of green / yellow ...

Almost all Professional Photographers shoot RAW photos. The reason for this is it contains a lot more Data than a regular jpeg file you normally shoot on your phone or DSLR camera. Since a RAW file contains a lot more Data, you can take these files to image processing softwares like Adobe Lightroom and edit them to produce high quality images with better dynamic range and colors. You can adjust a ton of settings and create an image you want, without losing a lot of information. Regular Jpeg (.jpg) files can also be edited, but these files are not made for editing purposes. When you heavily edit a .jpg file, it will lose information and quality, introducing a lot of grain and artifacts in to the images. Basically, it destroys the quality of the photo often. So, if you plan to Edit your Photos, and want the best quality out of any camera - whether it be your smartphone or your high end DSLR / Mirrorless Camera, shoot raw images. Different manufactures have different RAW formats....

Darktable 3.0.0rc0 is now out with a lot of new features, bug fixes and performance improvements. Currently, there are no .deb package available to install on your Ubuntu machine. However, you can easily build Darktable from source code. Dec 27 2019 Update : Darktable 3.0 Stable Version in Officially out . On Ubuntu just enter the below command to install 3.0. sudo apt-get install darktable ____________________________________ Download Darktable 3.0.0rc0 source file from here . Right click the downloaded file and 'Extract here'. Now open a terminal and navigate to the extracted folder ( in my case it's a /home/myusername/Downloads/ ) and enter the following commands. ./build.sh --prefix /home/yourusername/darktable --build-type Release Substitute 'yourusername' with your Login name. Enter the folder name you want Darktable to be installed after yourusername/ ( for eg : yourusername/darktable ) Wait until above process is complete. When it's do...

Adobe Lightroom Mobile Version 5 is now out for Android smartphones and tablets. This new version brings some features a lot of users have been asking for. Advanced Export Options is now finally available on LrMobile for Android . Earlier, when you were exporting an image ( Save to Device ) on Lightroom Mobile, you were stuck with just two options. You could export the file in Highest Available Quality ( jpeg 100 ) or Limit to 2048px. The version 5 now out offers a lot more options. When you hit the Share button, now you get both 'Save to Device' option as well as 'Export as' option You can now choose to which image format you want to export your image into. Jpg, Dng, TIF and Original are the ones supported currently. You can also choose the dimensions of the image or enter a custom width. An option to choose the Jpeg Image Quality is now available as well. It also comes with 3 in built export presets for quick saving - Save JPG ( Small ), Save JPG ( Large ) and Sa...

Which is currently the best Photo Editing App available for Android and Apple iOS ? Answer may vary from person to person. However, if you are gonna ask this question to a Pro photographer, chances are he or she would firmly say "Lightroom Mobile". I have been using LrMobile since it's launch. To enjoy all features, you would need a subscription. However, many basic editing features on Lightroom Mobile are available for Free. You do not need a pro subscription to use editing features like Highlights, Shadows, Sharpening, Noise Reduction, Clarity, Dehaze, Vignette etc. Advanced tools like Graduated Filters, Brush Tools, Healing etc are the ones that are Locked. Snapseed vs Lightroom Snapseed, it's main competitor in the smartphone world is equally powerful, however, Google hasn't updated it for almost an year now. DNG raw editing on Snapseed is quite bad. On the other hand, Adobe Lightroom Mobile offers a full fledged Dng raw editing features. Tools like sha...

There are a lot of Photo Editing Apps available online on Google Play Store. Some are Paid while some are completely Free to use. Out of all those numerous apps, there are two mobile apps that every Instagram / Social Media user is aware of and uses often for their needs - Adobe Lightroom Mobile and Snapseed .  Snapseed, even though owned by Google, wasn't developed by them. Google hasn't cared to update this app for an almost an year now ( as of this writing ). Lightroom Mobile on the other hand has seen numerous software updates and are actively developed. While Snapseed is completely free, Lightroom Mobile is subscription based. However, most features on the LrMobile are available to use without any subscription, only Advanced Pro features like Healing, Perspective Correction, Selective adjustments etc are restricted to use. So Which is the best Photo Editing App available for Android Mobile ? I would say Lightroom Mobile is far ahead of Snapseed at this moment. It doe...