By importing two photos, you can selectively knock out the background of one, remove sections of photos you don’t want, add objects to other photos, and even use content-aware fill thanks to Creative Cloud’s off-device processing, which sends your image to Adobe’s server for processing, allowing you to perform more complex tasks than the iPad allows. The really neat part, though, is the layering capabilities. You can choose from any of quite a few different photo effects, and selectively add or remove each. Mix is all about selective adjustment and layering. Again, you’ll need an Adobe ID for this app. When you first launch the app, you have the ability to select local photos or photos from Lightroom and Creative Cloud, a very helpful addition if you were previously editing on another device. Not only does it allow users to transcend the limited power of the iPad, it brings desktop quality editing to iOS. Sure, there are other Photoshop branded Adobe products in the App Store like Photoshop Express and Photoshop Touch, but both are fairly rudimentary editing apps that harness the limited horsepower of iOS devices. Photoshop Mix is totally new territory for Adobe. You can download Lightroom mobile for iPhone here. Like the iPad version, you’ll need an Adobe ID as well as a subscription to Creative Cloud to use Lightroom. I’m confident Adobe will continue to add features to their iOS apps, though. However, at least for now, editing on the mobile version isn’t nearly as powerful as the desktop counterpart. This feature extends to the desktop version. When I signed into Lightroom on my iPhone for the first time, the photos I had previously worked on in the iPad version automatically showed up. One of the best parts of Lightroom is photo syncing, thanks to Creative Cloud. There’s still plenty of room to view your photos as you edit, and of course, a plethora of sharing options which is great for the iPhone. Adobe has done a great job of bringing Lightroom’s controls on the iPad down to the iPhone without sacrificing too much screen real estate. The apps are about as identical as they can be given the difference in screen size, and they offer near feature parity with each other.

Following the iPad version of Lightroom that launched this past April, Lightroom mobile on the iPhone is much of what you’d expect if you’ve used the iPad version.

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