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The Profiles option comes next
and here you can apply numerous
artistic filters and colour enhancements to
your original picture. There are a number
of different Presets available, with sub-
categories within each. With each Preset
applied, you can tap and hold the image
to see a before and after shot.
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The next options are Light and
Colour. In the Light section, you’re
able to adjust the exposure, contrast,
highlights, shadows, whites and blacks.
The Colour section concentrates on
adjustments to colour temperature, tint,
vibrancy and saturation. You can also
convert the image to black and white.10
You also have options to reset your
image, copy settings and create
your own preset, show the histogram,
save to device and more. You can also
flag your images and apply a star rating.
Once you’ve applied the edits, you can
sync it to Lightroom on your computer
or other devices.8
The Effects edit option allows you
to change the clarity, which is the
mid-tone contrast of the image, along
with dehaze, vignette amount, midpoint,
feather, roundness and highlights for the
image. You can also alter the Split Tone
and adjust the colour balance using the
strip colour charts.9
The next tool, Optics, is a
technique used in most Adobe
products. It corrects common lens
aberrations such as barrel and
pincushion distortion. Next to that is the
image Geometry distortion tool. This
lets you alter the vertical and horizontal
geometry of your image.5
The next option, Crop, is self-
explanatory. However, it offers more
than the simple cropping of an image that
some mobile image editors manage. The
Crop tool not only crops but also rotates,
flips horizontally and vertically and can
snap to grid. It’s worth playing around
with the image to see how it works.
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