Adobe Lightroom Android version 9.0.0 update: added support for Android 14 Ultra HDR image editing

Thank CTOnews.com netizens soft media Xinyou 1933769 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, Oct. 12, Adobe has added Ultra HDR image editing support to the Android version of the Lightroom mobile app. Ultra HDR is a new image format supported by Google's latest Android 14 system, which allows our smartphones to take better pictures.

Importantly, Ultra HDR is not a bad kind of HDR, it uses a wider range of light and dark tones to express images-closer to what our own eyes see, showing brighter white on the HDR display, rather than the plain gray tones we usually associate with "HDR" photography. Ultra HDR is the way Android phones record and read HDR photos, and the files are in standard JPEG format, so they are also backward compatible with SDR (standard dynamic range) displays.

Adobe Lightroom has added new HDR support in Android version 9.0.0 and is currently available on Pixel 7, 7 Pro and 7A phones running Android 14. When you open the option to import HDR photos in the settings, when you import a Ultra HDR image for editing, you will see a new HDR icon in the upper right corner, and clicking on it will show a histogram with additional HDR highlights. If you are using a device that does not support this feature, this part of the histogram will be shown in red.

According to CTOnews.com, in addition to a HDR display is needed to view HDR images, applications like Instagram also need to support HDR images. Apps like Instagram remove the image's metadata when users upload pictures, so they can only see SDR images. Currently, Adobe recommends exporting images to AVIF format, which is supported by Google's Chrome browser.