

Lightroom Mobile has a clean, easy-to-use interface while maintaining most of Lightroom Classic’s editing tools. Make your edits on the Smart Preview files to save bandwidth and mobile storage. It’ll only download the original file if you tell it to, or it needs it to render an export. Lightroom Mobile will only download the Smart Previews from the cloud, where you can make all of your edits on a smaller photo. When you have an Internet connection, the files will upload to the Creative Cloud not just for backup, but for syncing to the desktop version of Lightroom so you can continue your workflow when you get home.īut you don’t need to make your edits to the original, huge RAW files. You can import RAW files directly from your camera onto your phone or tablet, organize them into albums, add keywords and ratings, make edits, and publish to online portfolio sites like SmugMug. Lightroom Mobile (formerly known as Lightroom CC, now just “Lightroom”) has impressively evolved from an app aimed at smartphone photography enthusiasts to a lightweight full-workflow solution for even professional photographers. How to Process Photos in Lightroom Mobile.

