
Interfaces with: Libraries and Photoshop. It has three tools that require roundtripping to the cloud for proceesing, Upright (to fix perspective), Shake Reduction and Content-Aware Fill (automatic deletion and smart cloning into the deleted area). What it does: Combine two photos into a collage, as well as perform basic retouching and applying filters. The irritating: It's not really Lightroom mobile's fault that it can only sync collections (and not smart ones) or that it can't sync with collections from muliple catalogs at once - those are limitations of the catalog architecture in the desktop application. It also adds two new adjustment tools, a tone curve and a color/black-and-white tool that adjusts individual hue groups, plus vignetting. What's new: The June 2015 update adds support for the ability to add, view, sync and share video - only on iOS, unfortunately. The good: It's a great mobile editor for retouching, as opposed to adding filter effects (although it does that too).

It's also one of the few apps that integrates broadly with the sharing features on your device, such as directly opening photos in Instagram or Photoshop Mix. This is the only app that doesn't support Libraries, although I can't think of a use case for library support. Interfaces with: Lightroom desktop and Creative Cloud. Mobile support: iPhone, iPad and Android phones It can operate standalone with your camera or iPad's photos and sync them back to your main Lightroom catalog as well. What it does: In conjunction with the desktop version of Lightroom, it allows you to edit and sync edits of photos and videos. It's intrusive and should be optional you should be able to save a native file to CC. On my Windows system, it even sent it, tried to launch the application and then popped up a message that I needed to install Illustrator. And by "send it directly" it launches the application on every system you're logged into and loads the file. Second, Adobe is really into the workflow where the only way you can get the fully editable project out of an app is to send it directly to the desktop application. Dear Adobe, I know, it would be horrible if a nonsubscriber used the app, but this is one of those cases where hypervigilance makes make the experience worse for the people who are paying for it.ĭon't check subscription status on launch check it when you need to access a CreativeSync service.

Or can't use it because I don't have a network connection. Ooooh, a scene I want to capture with Premiere Clip. Every app makes you log in before you can do anything, and frequently will seemingly bypass the login screen for a few seconds before realizing, nope, you're not logged it. But there are two that stand out across the ecosystem, at least for me.įirst, too many log-ins. No app is perfect and all of these have their irritating tics.
