As you can see from my previous posts, I’ve been using Snapseed pretty heavily for a while for any photo that I take with my phone. It is still a great tool and you can check out this blog post on how to do some cool things with it.

However, when it comes to the way it works - Adobe Lightroom does 3 things better.

It gives me more control over the Light, Colours and the overall look of image

Using the sliders as well as the tone curves, you can really change how the image works. Being able to do split toning (which is also getting an update soon) as well as being able to selectively change the Hue/Luminance and Saturation of each colour channel is pretty sweet too.

Apart from the Light and Colour tools, i’m also a big fan of the Vibrance/Saturation sliders which make it easy to adjust colour tones seperately from skin colour - and the Texture/Clarity sliders which can bring out large/small details in the photo.

Lastly both Noise reduction and Grain sliders can be used to great effect since noise and film grain are treated differently within Lightroom

It syncs with Lightroom Classic

This pretty much sealed the deal for me, now the photos i actually care about editing are going to be automatically synced on the Adobe Cloud and are accessible & editable & can be backed up from Lightroom Classic on my PC.

It’s really easy to use presets

The internet is full of presets and if you’re into photography & colour science you can even create your own. In fact when i combine creating presets on my PC on lightroom classic, with the sync feature it really makes it easier to tweak every thing i want in the preset on my PC - and then just use it on the mobile

I’m launching my own presets!

Together with Sarah “Sosa” Zerafa, we will be launching a number of presets that will be sold under the PresetBubble name (https://presetbubble.com) We also have an offer that will see you get my favourite Black & White preset absolutely for free if you sign up to our newsletter