Adobe just announced Photoshop for the iPhone, a free app with an upgrade path to a new paid Photoshop Mobile and Web plan that provides more advanced tools. Adobe indicated the Android version will be available before year’s end.

Download it now for iPhones.

The free app includes core imaging tools like Layers, Masks, and  popular Firefly-powered Generative Fill as well as access to the library of hundreds of thousands of free Adobe Stock assets. Users can bring Photoshop files to Adobe Express for free, to add animations, music, etc., and schedule social posts across all major platforms and much more. 

Adobe’s new Photoshop Mobile and Web fee-based plan delivers more advanced image editing capabilities including tools for precise selections, targeted adjustments, advanced color corrections, expanded access to commercially-safe AI with Firefly-powered generative AI tools, full format support for opening and editing any Photoshop document, and more.

Pricing and Availability
The Photoshop iPhone app is free and offers premium upgrades to the new Photoshop Mobile and Web plan at $7.99 per month or $69.99 annually.

Per Adobe
“The introduction of Photoshop’s new mobile app marks the first time image editing and design features and capabilities at this level of power, precision and control have been available for free in a single mobile app. Creators can fully customize every element and pixel, make advanced edits with Photoshop’s iconic tools like layering, masking and blending and utilize creator friendly, commercially safe AI tools powered by Adobe Firefly to ideate, edit more quickly and bring images to life with ease.”

Download it now for iPhones.

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This quick tutorial with instructor Chris Baitson will get your creative juices flowing by illustrating how to give landscape photos a fine-art look by removing the horizon line. Once you understand this simple Lightroom trick you can go back and give an artistic boost to images you’ve edited in the past.

Baitson is a notable landscape photographer based in the East Yorkshire region of England who, interestingly, prefers shooting with micro four thirds (MFT) cameras. Today’s inspirational episode demonstrates how easy it is to change the mood and impact of an image with a few quick adjustments in Lightroom.

Baitson’s sample image, straight out the camera, depicts an iconic rock formation just off the coast of Scotland. The shot isn’t particularly compelling until he makes the horizon line disappear. The impact is further enhanced by converting the shot to b&w, and Baitson demonstrates the step-by-step process to accomplish both tasks with ease.

With the b&w conversion complete there’s a couple important preliminary steps: One is to straighten the horizon, and the other employs AI to remove two small distractions in the lower corners of the frame. Baitson also uses masks to accentuate the key subject and provide a minimalist appearance to the overall scene that includes plenty of negative space.

Now it’s time to say goodbye to the horizon line and doing so is far easier than you may think. The first step is grabbing a large Radial filter. Baitson doesn’t want to include the rock formation in the selection, so he chooses Subtract, Select Subject and now the hero of the scene is no longer defined within the mask.

Baitson now scrolls down to Clarity, Texture, and Dehaze and uses these tools to “smudge” the horizon line which is now all but gone, but additional refinements are required. To that end he returns to the Remove tool and draws a line over the remnants of the horizon. As you’ll see, there are three options for completing this step.

A few more minor enhancements are all it takes to complete Baitson’s artistic transformation. Check out the before/after examples and you’ll be very impressed. Then head over to his instructional YouTube channel for more helpful shooting and editing how-to videos.

You’ll also find some inspiration in the earlier tutorial we featured with another accomplished outdoor shooter who demonstrates several unconventional techniques for capturing unique landscape photographs with a wide-angle lens.

Many of us spend hours meticulously editing a set of photos, all the while wishing we were back out in the field with a camera doing what we love most. Today’s tutorial with instructor Rob Dryburgh will grant that wish by demonstrating “eight must-know shortcuts that will boost your workflow and make post processing a breeze!”

Dryburgh is an accomplished pro based in beautiful Newfoundland, Canada with the goal of helping others “unlock their passion for photography” with straightforward shooting and editing tips that anyone cam master in minutes. The helpful hacks in this seven-minute episode span the gamut from automatic adjustments to helpful before-and-after views.

These timesaving techniques are all about more efficient ways to use common Lightroom tools and a few keyboard shortcuts that you’ll want to start using today. He begins with a trick for adjusting sliders, explaining that “if you hold the Shift button and double-click on a slider Lightroom will automatically adjust the slider to what it thinks is the proper adjustment.”

Next on the list is a simple way to automatically invoke the Crop tool by tapping the “R” key. And once the Crop guides appear you can hit the letter “O” to cycle through various cropping options from the Rule of Thirds, Golden Ratio and other helpful aids for switching up composition.

Dryburgh moves on to a discussion of Lightroom’s oft-ignored Solo mode, describing what it does and the most-efficient method for using it to accelerate your workflow by collapsing unnecessary panel to simplify the workspace and keep you on track. There’s another cool trick that enables you to adjust exposure by clicking on the histogram and dragging left or right.

The foregoing shortcuts are just half of those you’ll learn by watching this lesson until the end. Other tricks include an easy method for syncing multiples photos, dimming the interface by hitting the letter “L” and accomplishing fine slider adjustments. The lesson concludes with a quick tip for comparing before/after images in a split screen by simply tapping the letter “Y” on your keyboard.

Dryburgh’s popular YouTube channel offers a variety of how-to videos that will help level up your post-processing skills.

And on a related note, don’t miss the earlier tutorial we posted with another pros’s advice for avoiding seven image-killing mistakes that may disrupt your Lightroom workflow and compromise the quality of your photographs.