Adobe Photoshop Lightroom on Android gets in-app camera, RAW format image support

It is clear that smartphone users enjoy taking pictures. That in turn means that the ability to process images on the fly has become incredibly important. After all, nobody wants a saturated picture of their breakfast or lunch roaming the internet. When the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom app launched in December 2015, processing images gained a new player that could make things interesting for seasoned players like Snapseed, VSCO and others. Now with its new update, introducing new features, it is looking to cement its place and lure new users.

Most of the smartphones that have been showcased at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona over the past few days tend to lean towards photography. Look at the LG G5 with its dual camera, a standard 16 megapixel camera and the 135-degree lens, the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and the Sony Xperia X’s 23 megapixel.

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Adobe has introduced a number of new features and improvements to its Android app, mainly an in-app camera and support for the capture of images in DNG raw format. The in-app camera boasts white balance, aperture control, an option to save the images in JPEG or in Raw format and the ability to export images at their full resolution. However, initial test of the in-app camera here at the office was a huge let down with the camera crashing everytime when adjusting exposure.

The app does boast some other interesting features, like the Dehaze tool which lets users adjust the level of haze and fog in images, new split toning adjustments and enhanced tone curve–point curve mode.

Users can, like in Adobe Premiere Clip, Adobe’s video editing tool for mobile, sync with Adobe Lightroom with Creative Cloud account enabling them to synchronize files and edits with Lightroom on a desktop as well as with Lightroom Web but users who do not have a Creative Cloud subscription can use it without signing in.