Lightroom on mobile offers a wide range of editing tools that you can use to enhance and improve your photos in a variety of ways.

This includes complete control over the light and color characteristics in the scene, and much more.

Hi, I'm Seán Duggan with the Adobe Learn team.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use some of Lightroom essential Edit Tools to make your photos look their best.

Before we dive into the Edit Tools, I'll start off with a Quick Action to fix the tilted angles in the image.

Lightroom detects that some of the architectural angles in the scene are a bit off, and it offers a way to correct them.

So, I'll tap on Fix angle.

And that looks great.

If I press and hold on the photo, we can see the Before view and when I lift my finger off the screen, here's the After.

Much better.

Now let's move on to working with the light characteristics in the photo.

In the Edit view, I'll tap on the icon of the three sliders to display the Edit Tools.

There are several categories of adjustments that you can make.

The Auto adjustment is a good place to start and I always give it a try.

If you don't like it, you can always tap Auto again to turn it off, or you can modify the settings, which is what we're going to do.

In this case, the Auto tone did lighten up the darker parts of the scene, but I think that we can do some more with this image.

You can see that there is a small white dot under the Light and Color icons.

This indicates that adjustments have been made in those sections.

I'll tap on Light to reveal the controls, and you can see the changes that the Auto adjustment made.

I'll lighten the Shadows some more by moving that slider to the right, and I'll reduce the brightness of the Highlights, which helps even out the sky.

I'll also increase the Contrast a little bit.

When you're moving the slider, you can see the precise adjustment value at the top of the screen.

By the way, here's a really useful shortcut: You can reset any slider in Lightroom on mobile just by double-tapping it.

Now let's move on to the Color settings.

The photo looks a little bit cool to me, so I'll use the Temp slider to slightly increase the yellow to add some warmth.

I'll also adjust the Tint slider to add a bit of magenta.

Then I'll swipe up on the Control panel, and I'll increase the Vibrance to make the colors pop a bit more.

Next, I'll tap on the Effects icon and work with the Dehaze slider.

If I go to the left, it increases the haze effect, but for this image, I want to move the slider a little ways to the right to lessen the haze and make the sky a bit more dramatic.

Dehaze is great for reducing atmospheric haze, and it's definitely something to try out with landscape photos.

The last edit I want to do is removing the exit sign in the background.

I'll double-tap on the image to zoom in, and I'll use a two-finger gesture to zoom in even more.

In the Toolbar, I'll choose the Remove Tool on the far right.

This actually includes three tools, and if you tap on the blue icon, you can see these: Remove, Heal, and Clone.

I'll leave it set to Remove, which is good for removing smaller objects that are surrounded by detail that's not too complex, like the wall around this sign.

With the Remove Tool, you can also use Generative AI, which can be very useful in some situations.

For this sign, however, I don't think I need that, so I'll turn Generative AI off.

As I do that, notice how the blue Tool icon changes.

I'll adjust the Size of my brush, and I'll paint a loose scribble over the sign to tell Lightroom that this is what I want to remove.

My brush stroke does not have to be very accurate, because Detect objects is turned on and Lightroom sees that object, expands the brushed area, and does a great job at removing the sign and filling in the area with the surrounding detail.

I'll tap the Checkmark to apply that edit, and then double-tap on the photo to zoom out.

Let's compare the current version to where we started.

I'll press and hold on the screen to see the Before view and then release to see the view with the current adjustments.

That's quite an improvement.

In this tutorial, we've only worked with a few of the many powerful tools for editing and improving your images in Lightroom on mobile.

Start exploring these tools to see how you can use them with your own photos.