
For example, I have a 128GB iPad and with the Lightning to SD Card adapter I can import photos from my camera’s memory cards into my iPad. Strictly speaking you don’t need the mobile app, you just need a device with enough storage space. The app’s ideal for backing up your photos when you’re away from home. The app is perfect for showing off your portfolio on your phone or tablet.Ībove: Developing a photo in Lightroom for mobile. You can even download the previews permanently so you can show your photos to other people without an internet connection. When you open Lightroom for mobile it connects with Adobe’s servers and downloads those Smart Previews so you can view the images on your device. Lightroom Classic creates Smart Previews of the photos in the Collection (if they don’t exist already) and uploads them to Adobe’s servers. You can synchronize any Collection (but not Smart Collections or Collection Sets) with Lightroom for mobile by ticking the appropriate box in the Collections panel. Learn more: How to Organize Your Photos with Lightroom Classic Collections Lightroom Classic, as you probably know, requires you to organize photos in Collections. It eliminates at least one step in the upload process because you can do it all from within Lightroom Classic. Lightroom for mobile makes it easy to upload photos to your mobile device. Use Lightroom for mobile as a presentation device. But without an Adobe Photography Plan subscription your photos won’t synchronize with other Lightroom apps or Lightroom Classic. At least one of them is bound to be of interest to you.īy the way, even if you don’t use Lightroom Classic you can still download and use Lightroom for mobile to view and develop photos. In fact, I can think of at least seven things you can use the Lightroom for mobile app for, so let’s take a look at them.

If you’ve never tried it before I think you’ll find it surprisingly useful. If you’re a Lightroom Classic subscriber you can also use Lightroom for mobile (formerly known as Lightroom CC for mobile and before that just Lightroom mobile), Adobe’s app for tablets and smartphones and integrate it with your workflow in various ways.
