Adobe announces Lightroom for iPad

PanARMENIAN.Net - Adobe announced the availability of Lightroom mobile, a companion app to Lightroom desktop software, only available as part of Adobe Creative Cloud.

The new Lightroom mobile app brings Lightroom tools to the iPad, delivering photography essentials – such as non-destructive processing of files – and utilizing new Smart Preview technologies to free professional-class photo editing from the confines of the desktop.

According to Business Wire, Lightroom mobile is built on synchronization architecture, designed specifically for photos, and provides an efficient way to manage and edit images across desktops, mobile devices and the Web.

Lightroom mobile is available as part of the Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop Photography Program. For USD$9.99 per month, photographers have access to Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC on the desktop as well as Lightroom mobile on iPad.

"With the launch of Lightroom mobile, we’ve unlocked professional-class photographic workflows from the confines of the desktop,” said Winston Hendrickson, vice president products, Creative Media Solutions, Adobe. "Lightroom and Photoshop redefined digital photography on the desktop and now, photographers can perfect images, wherever they are and, via Creative Cloud, seamlessly synchronize them back to their desktop catalog.”

Lightroom mobile and the photography optimized synchronization architecture puts the tools from Lightroom 5 at photographer's fingertips, including:

-Sync mobile edits, metadata and collection changes back to the Lightroom catalog on a Mac or Windows computer; -Automatically import images captured on an iPad and sync back to a Lightroom catalog on the desktop; -Work on images, even when iPad is offline, for a truly portable experience; -Sync photos between Lightroom 5 and Lightroom mobile; synced photos can also be viewed from any Web browser.

"Adobe Lightroom mobile transforms the way I am able to work with my photographs because now I can review and process photos when I'm comfortable and creative, and not just when I’m at my computer," said Jeff Carlson, educator and author of The iPad for Photographers and Adobe Lightroom mobile: Your Lightroom on the Go. "It also works as a malleable photo portfolio on my iPad. As I add or remove images from a collection in Lightroom mobile or on the computer, the changes stay synchronized. When I need to show my work those photos are already set up to be viewed."