You can reset the adjustments to everything but the basic tone changes, everything, to when you opened the file, and revert to the original version - a nice set of options. The apps still don't support custom presets, so the best you can do to automate is to apply either the basic tones or all settings from the previous image. All of the adjustments and effects are the presets that ship with the desktop application in the Quick Develop panel of the Library view. Lori Grunin/CNETĪt the bottom of the screen are the three editing modes: retouching adjustments, effects, and cropping. On Android, you tap to toggle between the two. One of only two differences between the iOS and Android versions is how they handle the flagged/rating display in the lower-left corner. You can't sync peer-to-peer (from the desktop to a mobile device) in the absence of a network, either. Furthermore, when you switch catalogs you have to sign out and sign in again, then re-specify which collections to sync it doesn't remember. At the very least, I want to be able to log in and select which catalog to work with on my phone or. That incredibly annoying if you work with multiple catalogs. There's no catalog manager on the devices it's all controlled via the desktop. You can only sync a single catalog at a time, and switching catalogs or a unsyncing a collection wipes them from the device. Otherwise, it dynamically downloads each image to your device as you open it and caches it temporarily. If you want to be able to work on photos while disconnected, you must enable offline editing on that device for the entire collection you can't pick photos and just cache those.

You can set the app to sync only over Wi-Fi as well. For each photo, it automatically generates the necessary raw proxy images - 1.7MB DNG files limited to 2,560 pixels on the long edge, which Adobe dubs 'Smart Previews' - though it doesn't indicate within LR desktop that there's a Smart Preview in the usual spot beneath the histogram.Īs long as you're connected to a network, the selected collections and any operations you perform on the images on any platform are automatically synced among any logged in device.

It can sync only static collections, not folders or Smart Collections. You must first log in with the desktop version of Lightroom, enable syncing and then designate specific collections to sync.

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