Lightroom alternative? Especially for mobile

[Oíche]

My £4 yearly complete Adobe app cloud expired, I looked at ON1 but read bad reviews about the stability on mobile which I now mostly edit on. I got ON1 effects 2023 free on desktop on my M1 Mac mini but the cganging over was a slow chore as LR mobile was faster and seamless on a Snapdragon 870 phone and now have a faster phone.

I managed to continue to get LR alone (never ever used Photoshop or others anyway) on desktop and mobile for $4.44/£3.50 per month with 140GB cloud which I never use and disable regardless. I've used it since I started and regard it as the best, it is fantastic on mobile and it was costly guesswork and hassle to try anything else.

What on mobile are you using? I'd prefer full LR on a good tablet but most times posting to social mobike is great, just like the LUT stuff coming soon. I have full LR on the M1 Mac on the lounge OLED, and my photography monitor has been in a box since. But even that is inconvenient with a wireless mouse and keyboard. This is how convenience always wins... computer desk dumped to OLED TV, then dumped for a handheld device anywhere you like.

Even that stalwart idea has been surpassed for 'AI' doing it all for you when you say click, although pleasing most wouldn't do it for me, hence the talk about zero creativity and the arts being replaced by an almighty generic technology.

 

[CharlesH]

I have Lightroom on my iPhone but I don't use it much; I normally edit with my computer. So you know much more about using Lightroom mobile than I do. But I do have a prejudice for Lightroom these days. You probably know I have my little rant about liking (real) HDR photos, and how Adobe is the only one doing this right. LR mobile can do HDR photos and they should look great on your OLED TV (and pretty good on your phone if it has a HDR screen). For me that is enough to stick with Lightroom mobile. Also Lightroom recently announced Generative Remove which I find to be fantastic. It makes cleaning up photos that have distractions super easy. I'll post an example I did of a Las Vegas street scene if I get a chance. (They released this good thing at the same time they released AI Powered Lens Blur, which I think sucks. ). But Adobe is on a roll with innovative new features and I'd recommend sticking with Lightroom mobile.

 

[RuleOfThirds]

Did have a thread here somewhere. But not specifically on mobile but raw converters in general.

I bought the LR subscription with 1TB cloud, no photoshop. It is enough for my editing needs. Was pleasantly surprised how good the iPad version works. Now I sometimes use the iPad to cull my pictures. Swipe up or swipe down to reject/accept

 

[Oíche]

I tried the HDR and never thought much of it. Yes both TV and phone is HDR, Dolby Vision OLED etc. I'll maybe have another go later.

Yeah, played with the Generative removal which really is "magic", it's silly removing the main subject but just to demonstrate how good it is for removing real distractions ruining a photograph.

It's truly amazing compared to LR 10 years at a horrible computer desk, monitor screen, keyboard and mouse... I wouldn't have believed the advancement back then!

 

[CharlesH]

I tried the HDR and never thought much of it.

Not much sunshine in Belfast, maybe a feature you don't need.

But seriously, capture some photos with the sun glistening off moving water. Or anything where the brightness way exceeds the dynamic range of an SDR screen.

 

[Progresjon]

I use darkroom, https://darkroom.co/ for my mobile needs on Ios and snapseed on android. Whatever is with me of systems.

 

[Oíche]

Not much sunshine in Belfast, maybe a feature you don't need.

But seriously, capture some photos with the sun glistening off moving water. Or anything where the brightness way exceeds the dynamic range of an SDR screen.

I've loads of RAWs of landscapes/seascapes of exactly that so I'll dig them out.

BTW we have beaches/seaside 5 miles from city centre.

 

[Markuswelder]

I've been using the excellent in camera raw conversion up until now. Then sync to my phone with Lumix Sync. From there, upload to whatever forum or social media its relevant to. I've tried a multitude of different mobile editing apps, never really been that thrilled with them.
Lumix lab has changed the game for me. I still use the in camera raw converter as a start, then Sync to get the photos onto my phone, as Lab is not compatible with my S5, but it will edit photos taken with it in the jpeg editor. I haven't had a proper play with it as yet, as it was near 11pm by the time I got it onto the phone, I have a real job so it will be tonight before I really get into it, but it looks pretty promising so far. As I'm a bit of a weirdo in that I actually like Panasonic colours, and Lab looks like it's continuing the theme. Happy days