How To Make Hdr Photos In Lightroom

[Michelle Benitone]

Im having issues with Lightroom Mobile. When I shoot in ProRAW on my iPhone 12 Pro, the result is usually crisp contrast and bright whites. However, when I open that image in Lightroom Mobile (using the Apple ProRAW profile) and export it back to the iPhone's camera roll having made no changes, the image is dull and has lost its contrast. I also tried it with Apple HEIC and JPG files, and the same thing happens. It's maddening. I first discovered this when I opened a ProRAW image in Lightroom Mobile to make no changes other than to use the Healing tool to remove a mark. When I exported it back to the camera roll, the image lacked the contrast of the original. Please advise, and thank you for your time.

Thank you for the quick reply. After experimenting further with Lightroom Mobile's color space and other settings, I'm learning that none of that matters. This seems to be an issue with how the iPhone displays photos in the Photos app. An original photo with bright whites, such as sun through an open window, will display as very bright white with plenty of contrast in the Photos app. If I send that photo to another app, such as Lightroom Mobile or Snapshot, the whites appear dimmer. If I export the photo from Lightroom Mobile back to the camera roll (Photos app), the whites appear much dimmer in the exported photo compared with the original. Even if I take a screen capture of the original bright photo, the whites in the screen capture appear much dimmer than the original photo. I can't even send you an example, because if that photo goes anywhere else, the whites are dimmer and the photo has less contrast than the way the original looks in the Photos app. For example, I transfered the original photo and the dimmer Lightroom Mobile export photo both to my MacBook, and side-by-side in Photoshop they are absolutely identical. The same is happening on my wife's iPhone 13. The Photos app seems to be displaying out-of-camera photos with more brightness and contrast than they actually have. This can't be an isolated incident, so I'll search Google for an answer. Thank you again.

Darren, wow crazy that i am having the same issues you did.. I edit on my Macbook and use lightroom CC on my phone to save directly to my Iphone Photos. Noticing that when i saved on some of my ocean images the colors are truly very off and have no contrast. I just want to confirm, that turning off the HDR setting in photos allows us now to keep that same image from Lightroom -> Photos without the loss of detail. This is inherintly non intuitive by apple . thanks

When "View Full HDR" is turned on in the settings, it simply means that the out-of-camera photos in your Photos app will look different in the Photos app than they will anywhere else that you view them. It's altering the way they look in the Photos app only. Turning off "View Full HDR" will allow you to see photos in the Photos app as they would look in other apps, such as in Lightroom Mobile or even in Instagram. If the photos that you take on your iPhone are going to be viewed anywhere other than YOUR iPhone -- like in Instagram, or texted to friends, or sent to your MacBook, or printed, than you'd be wise to turn off "View Full HDR."

Just for clarification, enabling "Full HDR" does not process the photos to make them more contrasty, it actually shows the (already existing) extended dynamic range in the photo in a similar way HDR movies are displayed in an HDR capable tv. That means the brightness of the image is not bounded from 0 to 1 (0 to 255), but can go beyond that.

The fact Instagram (or any other "consumer" platform doesn't show the full dynamic range of the image it's because they only accept srgb images (instagram actually allows to upload HDR videos tho in stories i believe and those are shown in full dynamic range).

(Same story if you transfer those images to a desktop computer, most monitors are still not hdr capable and even if they are depending on the software you may not see the full hdr image. Affinity photo allows you to see the full hdr image with a compatible monitor)

Giancarlo, thanks for replying. I can't think of any reason someone would want to have this turned on. It's giving them a false representation of their photos in the sense that their photos will look different viewed on any other screen -- including social media sites and/or other people's phones (including iPhones). So the user (with Full HDR turned on) edits a photo to make it beautiful, then posts it to Instagram or Facebook, or texts it to a friend where it looks totally different. How is that helpful? It's ridiculous. Any user would want to see their photos as others will see them so that they can make proper edits if needed.

If you print your photos sure you won't get an emissive paper and the brightest pixels of the image will be paper white, but since modern screens are capable of that it's just a matter of time and support.

Also, if you shoot RAW with a decent camera the RAW file itself already has a larger dynamic range than a standard JPEG (brightness is linear and can go above 1) and you could in theory make an HDR photo with that. The problem is software support, both by editing software and viewing apps.

And something is already moving:

Also, I had turned off video HDR (which is under camera settings), and you could see the difference between the photos and videos in the iphone photo library. Now I have turned off HDR in photo settings, and things are much more consistent [especially when I import to my desktop!]

So, some new info: In LR mobile under app settings > Import, there is an 'HDR edit mode for new photos'. This processes HEIF/HEIC and JPEG images in real time as you open them - with an RGB histogram showing this happening. Doesn't work for DNG's.

[Another thing: Make sure you have your colour space warnings turned on so you can keep track of things when using Bridge / ACR / LR / PS etc. iphone jpegs and HEIC/F's seem to come with the P3 space].

Thank you! I couldn't figure out what was happening. I toggled that off. I'd rather have consistency and loose the brightness. There is one app that seems to support that setting. It's called Retouch. That software also supports HEIF.

I'm forced into using Lr CC, because Lr 6 -- like every other version I have (had) -- has developed erratic dysfunctions, i.e., constant crashes segued into disappearing catalogs, making it frustratingly unreliable. I will slog on, but never wanted to store my work in the clouds. Ironically I got an alert that said my 20 GB cloud storage was full. When I clicked on Adobe Creative Cloud link, I found just 7 images on the site -- only one of which was RAW. Where are the rest of the images? It's infuriating enough to lose my work in the older Lr platforms, but I want to empty cloud storage and be done with it: It's interfering with my work. My recent experiences lead me to think that Adobe merely wants to sell me more expensive storage space at the cost of my sanity. The Lr CC has been stable, so far, but is completely reliant on hard-to-navigate cloud storage. Please tell me how to disable Lr CC's connection with cloud storage.

I'm forced into using Lr CC, because Lr 6 -- like every other version I have (had) -- has developed erratic dysfunctions, i.e., constant crashes segued into disappearing catalogs, making it frustratingly unreliable.

As of "disappearing catalogs" I've found the most common reason for this is the user not knowing where he stored his catalog as Lr handles this normally. Me too I would need to look at where I put the catalog. And I know that I customized it that way that my automated back-up takes it and backs it up. That was, done, if I remember well with my 5.7 version of Lr. Since then, I did not care anymore about the location (I will probably need to clean-up the old catalogs, but I'm that lazy with such tasks).

Adobe gives you the choice to use either one or the other. Lr CC (the cloud storage based Lightroom) uses the cloud to upload the pictures and it is not possible to change that. If you do not want using the cloud, you need to switch to Lr Classic CC which is basically an updated Lr6. It is clear that when using Lr CC, you need to buy cloud space...

I too have this same issue but the delete lightroom library didn't free up the space. It still shows half my space used and I have deleted the files from everywhere and cleared all caches, emptied the recycle bin and it's still half full.

I had the same problem of my cloud storage being full. I used Lightroom Downloader to make a local copy of my cloud content on my PC HDD. Then I followed your procedure to empty my cloud storage. However, it seems to have deleted all the pictures that were stored locally in my iPhone Lightroom CC library as well! (i.e. not only those that were in the cloud, but also those that weren't because my cloud storage was full). This is definitely not what I expected... hundreds of pictures gone. Is it normal? How could I retrieve them?

Do you primarily take images with your phone? If you do then possibly LR CC is not for you. Or you also need to use LR Classic CC on your computer. Or you need to the subscription plan that give you 100GBs of cloud storage.

I actually use Lightroom CC on my iPhone as my everyday camera. I prefer to take images with it than with the native iPhone photo application. I use the dng raw format and I'm very happy with the postprocessing functionalities of Lightroom CC and the Photoshop suite on my Phone. I'm not a big user of Lightroom on the computer (although I should, since my photo library is a mess... but that's another story).

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