I often get asked about editing and sharing images from mobile devices, imagine the scenario - you've taken a few photos on your phone and you want to send them to friends and family but attaching more than half a dozen at original size puts your email above a 20MB limit that many email servers enforce.

Why not resize them, with minimal effort and without importing them into Lightroom?

At least that's how I like to deal with my mobile phone images.

Here it's possible to resize using Adobe Lightroom Mobile using the following steps:

• So here we've opened Lightroom on mobile, in this case it's Android on a Samsung. 

• Let's choose Gallery at the bottom. That will take us to images which aren't in Lightroom's ecosystem, just on the device and accessible.

• Choose your image, make your edits. Here I'm doing a simple crop edit on this image from Dalkey, south of Dublin, and its 14th century castle.

• Once you have finished your edits choose the tick symbol.

• Then in the top right of the image choose the share symbol.

• Then choose Export as...

• Make adjustments here such as image size (here I have reduced the long side to 1548px), quality, file type, watermark and Content Credentials (I will cover these options in another post so if you don't have a watermark don't bother with it at this stage) then the tick mark at the top right to save the exported file.

Here the final image has been saved and will appear in Gallery on Android.

That's it, now you should have a much smaller image in your gallery that allows for easier sharing.

Here we take a look at a new feature in October 2024's Adobe Lightroom (formerly known as Lightroom CC - I know it's confusing) - How to Edit in third party / external applications in Lightroom so not in one of Adobe's products such as Photoshop.

This process has been made a little easier now, so here are the steps.

As you can see here, I'm interested in editing this image of Ireland's largest sea arch Great Pollet which has strong partial lighting across its face.

Now let's say you're not a Photoshop user but you do use Lightroom, you also use a non-Adobe photo editing application such as Affinity Photo.

In Lightroom, right click on the image and choose Edit in > Browse...

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Then choose your app, here I have chosen Affinity's Photo.exe.

A dialog opens up, showing how to proceed; (1)make your edits in Photo (my chosen app), keeping Lightroom open in background, (2) Save your work in Photo then (3) Return to Lightroom.

Here I make my edits in Affinity Photo, let's say using the healing brish tool to remove dust spots. Then File > Save.

After the application, in this case Affinity Photo, opens, the Lightroom dialog changed to (1) Be sure your photo is saved and (2) Choose Finish and of course there is a Finish button to click to ensure the image is brought back into Lightroom. So I click Finish here after having already saved in Affinity Photo in the previous step.

The file now appears in Adobe Lightroom's filmstrip, seen here alongside the original RAW file, in this case as a TIF.

After having edited in your app, it will now appear as an option in future when you Right Click > Edit in > ...

I usually write about Adobe Lightroom Classic but if you're a regular reader here on Panoramic Ireland you will probably have seen my recent articles on Adobe Bridge, Lightroom and Photoshop.

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Adobe has released a raft of updates to Bridge, Lightroom, Photoshop and Camera Raw in recent weeks.

Here, a first look at Quick Actions in Adobe Bridge.

Bridge is interesting software, it's really for those who don't use Lightroom Classic, sitting between Lr and Ps, it allows for image management and editing using Camera Raw.

But it does have useful functionality, and the new Quick Actions will come in handy at times.

Here, I try a Quick Action to Remove Background in the above image with one movement - drag the image to the flyout panel.

The Quick Actions flyout window opens, and works away - this as you can see is powered by Adobe Express.

You are then left with the image with background removed, two options are possible here - Download the image to your computer or Open in Adobe Express.

The latter will open Adobe Express in your web browser where more functionality is possible such as adding the image to animations and videos. Subscribe to stay informed when I make a post on this very thing.

Here I have just decided to download, it's then possible to import the file into Lightroom or use in Photoshop.

You can of course remove the background, or inversely the subjects such as these cows, in other ways such as using Photoshop but this method using Adobe Bridge is quick and easy.

Here it has done a fine job of identifying all of the cows, including those sitting down and those in the background, removing everything else. Impressive, I would say.

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**Update** This issue should have been fixed by now, if you have updated to the latest versions of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop and you can return to editing in Photoshop rather than Photoshop (Beta) by changing back in preferences

September 2024 - Another Adobe update and yet again another problem with the connectivity between Adobe Lightroom Classic and Photoshop 2024.

You might have had the pop-up warning dialog which reads "Photoshop Version Open Warning: Lightroom Classic and Adobe Photoshop 2024 are having issues connecting. Please reinstall Adobe Photoshop 2024 and try again."

This bug has affected me as well so you're not alone. I was trying to edit this image of Ireland's Cliffs of Moher in Photoshop after having made some Lightroom edits but I ran into the problem.

Here are the steps for a temporary fix for the moment:

1.  Go to Edit > Preferences

2.  Under Edit in Adobe Photoshop 2024 click Photoshop version: 

3.  Choose Adobe Photoshop (Beta)

4.  Then click OK at the bottom to make the changes.

CTRL+E or right click > Edit In > Edit in Adobe Photoshop 2024... should now work and allow you to edit your images in Photoshop (Beta)

This should work for now, the Beta version of Photoshop will work fine for all your editing and this workaround saves you having to uninstall and reinstall Photoshop 2024.

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Given the level of complaints about this one I think there will be a fix along at some point but if not then it might be necessary to do an uninstall and reinstall.