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Lightroom Mobile Adds One-Tap Open Eyes AI
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Why it matters
- →Brings high-quality portrait retouching to mobile devices without desktop software.
- →Shifts from reference-based stitching to generative synthesis for better lighting/pose matching.
- →Demonstrates Adobe's strategy of gating advanced AI features behind subscriptions on mobile.
Adobe has updated Lightroom for iOS, iPadOS, and Android with a generative AI feature that opens closed eyes in portraits with a single tap. Unlike the legacy Photoshop Elements tool which stitched eyes from other photos, this version uses generative models to create realistic replacements based on lighting and pose, referencing other images of the subject in the library for consistency. The feature is available to free users twice before requiring a Creative Cloud subscription.
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- 1Adobe's AI Camera App Critiques Photos
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