Lightroom vs. Photoshop Express: Choose the right app for you.

Workflow and photo management 

The photographer on the go can use Lightroom to make uploading full-resolution images easy. Send them quickly to the cloud where they sync and back up automatically. Customize the image import settings and management features to meet your specific requirements.

Keep track of all your best photos with an image management system that lets you tag images with keywords and metadata to quickly catalog, organize, track, write, watermark, and embed other data in your images.

Lightroom also uses Adobe Sensei, an AI technology, to help you find and organize your photos. Within Lightroom, Sensei automatically recognizes faces and elements within images. It can suggest relevant tags for easy searching. Sensei can even autocorrect images by whitening teeth and reducing red eye.

The mobile editing app for digital storytellers.

Adobe Photoshop Express is the perfect editing program for digital storytellers who regularly post images on social media. This free downloadable app is great for any mobile device, and even works with Windows desktop computers and in web browsers — ideal to quickly edit your images and post them to Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and other channels.

Templates and smart filters for novice photographers

If you primarily use a mobile device to take photographs, Photoshop Express makes editing a snap. Choose from a wide range of templates to make fast edits, overlay text on your photos, and have fun with special effects.

Create single or multi-image collages with collage templates. Add your own signature style with tools that allow you to change image positions, aspect ratio, and background color. Use smart filters to automatically correct common problems such as color temperature and more.

Editing and special effects

Alongside editing tools like cropping and adjustments to brightness, contrast, and saturation, you can add bokeh overlays, light leaks, cutouts, raindrops, smoke, noise, flares, and borders to your shots in Photoshop Express. Plus, make tonal adjustments to Exposure, Contrast, Shadows, Dehaze, and Highlights tools with adjustment sliders. You can also automatically generate scrapbooks and create custom stickers with your favorite photos.

Photoshop Express Premium is a paid subscription version with expanded features such as advanced healing edits, RAW image editing and manipulation, and HSL sliders.