Getting to know the general editing controls - Lightroom Mobile Tutorial

- [Instructor] The editing controls in Lightroom on mobile, let you do everything from a quick auto-correction to a full featured photo edit. This movie introduces the editing controls and how they work. I'm working in Lightroom on an iPad. If you're on a phone instead, some of the editing controls would be in slightly different locations, but they work the same way. Let's start by opening a photo to edit. Go to the list of photo sources on the left side of this view and tap the Exercise Files album that we made in an earlier movie in the course. The photo grid now displays thumbnails of all the photos in that particular album. You can swipe up or down to view all the thumbnails. I'm going to tap on this thumbnail of a castle by the sea, and that opens it in this single photo view called loop view. Below the photo is a filmstrip of all the other photos in the selected album. So if you wanted to edit a different photo from this album, you could just tap it here in the filmstrip. I'm going to tap back on that first photo. And if you want to close the filmstrip, so you have more room to work on your photo, tap the tiny filmstrip icon that's right on top of the filmstrip on the right side. Now to access the editing controls, go to the far right to the task bar. At the top of the task bar, you'll see icons for various kinds of editing controls, like presets and crop tool and selective editing controls, all of which we'll take a closer look at in later movies. For now, we want to access the global editing controls, which is a good place to start an edit. So tap the edit button at the very top of the task bar. That's the button that looks like sliders. And if it's not already open, that will open this column of panels of global editing controls. And you can tap on any one of the panels, like the light panel, to open it to see its controls. If you tap on another panel, like the color panel, the first panel closes, and that keeps this column from being too cluttered with multiple controls. As you can see, many of the controls in the edit panel are sliders. I'm going to go back to the light panel to show you that you can use your finger or a stylus, like an apple pencil, to drag the circle on the slider left or right. And when you do that, you get a live preview of that change in the image. Also the value to the right of a slider changes as you drag the slider. If you want to move a slider more precisely than you can do by dragging it, you can tap on that value. And each time you do, that changes the value in small increments. Here's another useful slider tip, the fastest way to return a slider to its starting point, which for most sliders is zero, is to just double-tap the circle on the slider like this. Now as you make edits, you may want to compare before and after views of your photo. So for example, I'm going to go to the color panel, and I'll drag the temperature slider over to the right to warm up this photo. I want to compare it to how it looked before. So there's a gesture for that, and that is to press with one finger on the photo and hold. And that takes you to the before view. And then when you remove your finger, that takes you back to the after view. There are some other gestures to know about. If you single-tap the photo with one finger that closes the controls and takes you to this full screen view. If you tap again with one finger, that takes you back to the fit-on-screen view and brings the controls back. If you tap with two fingers, you'll see some information about the photo at the top left. And if you tap with two fingers again, that displays the chart at the top left called the histogram which is a live chart of tonal values in the image that will help you evaluate what your edits are doing to the tones in the photo. I'll tap one more time to remove the histogram from view. You also can zoom in and out on a photo by either spreading or pinching with two fingers. Now you may be wondering how to undo an edit. So let's go back to the light panel by tapping it and move some of the sliders here. If I want to undo the last action that I took, I'll go up to the top of the screen and tap the curved arrow. That's the undo button. And that takes me back one step. And each tap on the undo button will take me back in time one more step. You can see the sliders moving back as I do that. If you want to redo, then tap the other curved arrow at the top of the screen. And each time you do, that moves you forward in time one step. Now what if you want to go back more than one step at a time? Well, for that, go down to the bottom of the screen and tap the curved arrow. And that gives you some reset options. You can choose to reset all, or you can choose to reset just adjustments, which doesn't change things like cropping, or you can tap import to revert the photo to the way it looked when you imported it into Lightroom, or you can tap open to revert the photo to the way it looked when you opened it into loop view for this editing session. I'll go ahead and tap all. And that resets all of the changes that I made to this photo. To wrap up this movie, keep in mind a few principles about editing in Lightroom on mobile. First of all, you don't have to save your image. All of your edits are automatically saved up to the Adobe Cloud. Second, all of your edits are non-destructive. That means they don't actually change the original photo, which is in the cloud. So your original is protected, and you can re-edit the photo at any time. And third, if you use Lightroom on another device, like another mobile device or a computer or the web, any edits that you make to a photo here in Lightroom on mobile go up to the Adobe Cloud and will sync to and be visible on the photos in Lightroom on your other devices, too. But that's only true if you're a member of an Adobe Creative Cloud plan. And it only applies to Lightroom, not to Lightroom Classic which uses a different syncing procedure which I covered in another movie in this course.