Adobe this morning released Lightroom mobile 2.0 for Android. This release gives Android users many of the same features previously released for the iPhone/iPad version:
- The point curve within the Curve tool, for precise control over brightness, darkness, and color cast of ranges of tones in your photos.
- Split toning, for adding color casts to your black and white and color photos.
- A set of five live presets available in the in-app camera. They are non-destructive, so you can adjust or remove them after shooting, if you wish.
- Dehaze for adding or removing atmospheric haze
- A Targeted Adjustment Tool in the Color/B&W editing tool, providing direct on-image editing controls
- One-tap access to Adobe Premiere Clip for creating video slideshows
In addition, the in-app camera can now capture DNG raw files, not just JPEGs. This is a great benefit available at this point only to Android users.
The most powerful feature of Lightroom mobile is the ability to sync collections of photos and editing work to and from your mobile device and Lightroom on your Desktop. This feature is available only to Creative Cloud subscribers. However, anyone with a mobile device can use the free Lightroom mobile app to capture, edit and share photos, so these updates are available to all Android users. Download Lightroom mobile for free from the Google app store.
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Wow very cool. finally DNG raw capture. that will make using our cell phones to take artsy pix (instead of just snapshots) even more beneficial to use now
Laura, how do I know if my cell phone is compatible with the new DNG raw capture? I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 with Android 5.0 running. How do I know the LR mobible app is capturing a raw or jpg file when I use the built in LR mobile camera app?
thanks
Hi Salsaguy,
I’m not an Android user and I can’t find much information on this. I did find one reference that said that Android started to allow raw capture with Lollipop. I’d guess that you need to set your regular camera app to shoot DNG raw, and that this setting will carry over into the Lightroom app. To be sure though, I’d suggest posting on lightroomforums.net to get more information from Android users.
Hi Laura, thanks for trying to help.
I found this article but still doesnt help me much:
http://www.cnet.com/news/android-lollipop-opens-high-end-photography-options/
I do have Lolipop Android ver 5.0 so I will try and see if I can find the full list of phones that support it. I will also try and force my camera to shoot in raw but I think I already tried to look in the settings and didnt find anything there.