Remarkably, any organizational changes you make here are then synchronized back to the Lightroom desktop and Lightroom Mobile apps – though of course the speed of your Internet connection will play a part, so these changes could take a few minutes to filter through. You can carry out basic organizational tasks, too, such as moving or copying photos between Collections and even creating new ones. These web galleries aren't just for show. The synchronization process automatically creates an online version of the Collection which you can view in a web browser and share with other people by sending them the link – they can even share comments.Īny Collections you synchronize are automatically added to online web galleries you can view in a browser and share with other people. The Lightroom Mobile synchronization has an additional advantage. This is one of Lightroom Mobile's limitations – there are many other things you can't do, such as creating virtual copies, adding keywords, applying optical corrections and so on.īut then Lightroom Mobile is designed as a companion to Lightroom desktop, not a replacement, and provided you accept its limitations it really opens up the way you can browse, share and enhance your pictures without having to be at your computer. You can carry on doing this for all the images in the Collection if you want to apply a single preset look quickly and easily. The best you can do at the moment is to create adjustments manually on one image, swipe to the next and tap the 'Previous' button – this applies all the adjustments from the image before. You can also apply presets, though here there is a slight catch – these are designed specifically for Lightroom Mobile and you can't add custom presets of your own in the same way you can on the desktop app. However, Adobe uses much smaller Smart Previews based on its own DNG format – they're small enough to synchronise but can store all the editing data needed for the full-resolution version on your computer. You can even edit raw files! This sounds like a major technical hurdle because raw files are much larger than JPEGs and would take a long time to synchronise. Synchronized Collections appear automatically in the Lightroom Mobile app.