Learn Lightroom on Your iPad

Explore the Lightroom iPad home page, manage photos with search, filters, tags, and star ratings, and learn to add or import photos to edit and organize into folders and albums.

Explore the photo editing page, focusing on tabs for light, color, effects, detail, optics, and geometry. Use auto or profiles, apply sliders and presets, and manage edits and metadata.

Prioritize lighting first to keep the sky and subject well lit. Then crop, straighten, and color-correct with temperature and tint, using the dropper for white reference before color grading.

Adjust lighting by tweaking exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks to control image brightness. Explore tone curves to shape light and color.

Master color editing in Lightroom on iPad by adjusting temperature, tint, vibrance, and saturation, then refine oranges, purples, and blues with color mix and color grading.

Explore the effects tab in Lightroom on iPad, adjusting texture, clarity, dehaze, vignette, and grain to sharpen or soften images and add a film-like finish.

Explore the detail tab in Lightroom for iPad, learning sharpening, noise reduction, color noise reduction, and how detail and smoothness balance crispness with grain control.

Discover how the optics tab enables lens corrections and applies optics settings automatically when Lightroom has your lens information.

Explore the geometry tab in Lightroom to correct distortion, adjust vertical and horizontal geometry, rotate and scale, apply constrain crop, and use intersecting lines to straighten real estate photos.

Explore how to use and save presets in Lightroom on iPad, including Adobe recommended, premium, and user presets, applying categories, undoing edits, and selective saving of color and detail.

Learn to use the crop tab in Lightroom on iPad to adjust crop amount, set aspect ratios (square, 16 by 9, or 2 by 3), rotate, flip, lock, and straighten.

Use the healing brush to remove blemishes by placing a source circle to sample from and a target circle to heal. Adjust size and opacity, and draw shapes for replacements.

Explore masking in Lightroom on iPad to edit specific image parts using subject, sky, brush, linear and radial gradients, color and luminance ranges, with feather, eraser, and precise local adjustments.

Copy edits across photos in Lightroom on your iPad using the masking tab to apply previous edits, copy and paste settings, and manage version history.

Straighten and crop a good photo, then adjust light and color—magenta tint, temperature, vibrance; balance exposure, highlights, shadows, and face brightness with a radial gradient.

Salvage overexposed photos in Lightroom on the iPad by lowering highlights and whites, adjusting exposure and shadows, and using masking and bracketing for HDR.

Demonstrates salvaging underexposed raw photos on iPad by boosting exposure, adjusting shadows and blacks, and masking the subject. Applies noise reduction and color grading to balance the scene.

Brighten the subject’s face, darken the surroundings, and center exposure for headshots on iPad, with Photoshop edits transferable back to Lightroom.

Master Lightroom editing on your iPad by learning to color correct, wield the sliders, and use powerful tools to craft the exact image in your head.