You also need to have the Lightroom Mobile (Lightroom CC) app installed on your mobile device. So you need to have Lightroom CC installed on your computer to sync your develop presets with your mobile version of Lightroom. And it’s the software we’ll use to sync with our Lightroom Mobile app. While it’s a boiled down, more streamlined incarnation of the classic Lightroom, it still has all the tools we know and love. Lightroom CC is the new cloud-based version of the Lightroom we knew previously. Adobe calls it the “desktop-focused” version of Lightroom, and what many of us moved from when we switched to the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan. Lightroom Classic CC is the tried and true version of Lightroom most of us remember. I realise these names can get a little muddled up, but bear with me.
If you have a standalone (non-cloud) version of Lightroom you won’t be able to sync your presets with your mobile device.Įvery Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan includes both Lightroom Classic CC and Lightroom CC. To sync your develop presets from your computer-based Lightroom Classic you currently need to be a member of the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan.
Let me show you how to sync your beloved develop presets from Lightroom Classic to your Lightroom Mobile app.
But with Adobe’s newly minted cross-platform support for develop presets, you can carry your presets with you wherever you go simply by clicking a button.
Adobe has announced an update to both Lightroom Classic (to version 10.2) and Lightroom (to version 4.2 on desktop. So how do we get the presets from our computers to our Lightroom Mobile app? Until recently we could do it only by using some unofficial workarounds. Adobe Updates Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic.
This means we can take ALL of our develop presets (purchased and self-made) with us on our mobile devices, which is a huge deal for those of us who use presets for the bulk of our photo editing. To access the sync preferences in Lightroom Classic, choose Edit (Win)/ Lightroom Classic (Mac) menu > Preferences > Lightroom Sync tab. But in June 2018 Adobe upped the ante by fully integrating develop presets into the Lightroom Mobile application. In the Lightroom Sync tab of the Preferences dialog box, you can specify the settings for syncing photos between Lightroom Classic and Lightroom ecosystem of apps. Even the means to post-process our digital images has been ramped up to the point where we can do it on our mobile device within minutes (if not seconds) of making the exposure.įor the past couple of years Adobe has done its best to keep pace with the need for mobile-friendly editing with Lightroom Mobile – the mobile device counterpart of the Lightroom CC flavor of our beloved Lightroom Classic. That’s what we photographers demand from our gear as we keep pushing them to perform at levels that were unheard of a few years ago.