How to Sort and process images in Lightroom on iPad

Gesture control

Before you begin, you should note a few useful gestural shortcuts. Tapping on an image with three fingers reverts it to its original state, and double-tapping any image attribute’s slider resets it to its original position.

Check image attributes

Tap an image until it opens fullscreen. Tap the “i” icon (top of the screen) to show information about the image’s file at the top left – tap this data to cycle through information such as EXIF data, star rating, and so on.

Open the editor

Once your images are synced and flagged, swipe to the left of the toolbar at the bottom of the fullscreen view to reveal the editing panel. This is where you can begin the process of finishing off your images.

Adjust gradient filter

To rotate your graduated mask, tap its middle line, then tap the exposure tool below your image and, in the case of a landscape like this, reduce that attribute a little. You might also want to raise the saturation a little.

Adjust a color channel

Tap the compass-like icon just above the color sliders then tap anywhere on the image. Now slide your finger left or right to reduce or raise the saturation of the color you tapped. This is useful to make blues bluer, say.

Add a gradient filter

Gradient filters are just as useful in the mobile version of Lightroom as they are on the Mac. Choose Selective on the right-hand side of the toolbar, then tap and drag downwards on your image to produce a graduated mask.

Selective saturation

This is a useful color technique. Tap Edit at the bottom of the screen, then the left-most icon to display different sets of editing tools. Tap Color/B&W and you can use the various sliders to change individual colors’ saturation.

Fix with a lens profile

Tap the left-most icon again and pick Lens Corrections. This tool doesn’t have the power of its Mac counterpart, but if you trust Lightroom’s built-in lens profiles you can quickly correct problems like barrel distortion.