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Many smartphone can capture in raw format, usually in a Pro mode.
I took this photo of a pier in the UK with my Samsung Galaxy 23 Ultra smartphone, and edited it for the final image using Adobe Lightroom Mobile.
Expert Raw provides manual, semi-automatic and automatic control of the camera configs depending on preference.
Most smartphones will have an equivalent Pro mode.
Since the aperture in smartphone cameras is fixed, you wont have to worry about this.
I took this photo of a pier in the UK with my Samsung Galaxy 23 Ultra smartphone, and edited it for the final image using Adobe Lightroom Mobile.
Most apps also allow you to view a live histogram to aid exposure if you find this useful.
The same options were copied from my phone to the tablet to ensure the results are identical.
This is achieved simply by clicking on the highlighted button to correct vertical and/or horizontal distortion.
This can be adjusted further using the Distortion Control slider if necessary; a grid appears to assist.
For this shot, setting the Temp to 4300 and Tint to 0 produced the best result.
Applying noise reduction
This shot was taken at ISO 3200, so there’s some luminosity noise present.
Unprocessed Raw file(Image credit: James Abbott)
Color noise is dealt with by a default automatic setting.
Here, a Linear Gradient was applied to the sky, then Light was selected to reduce Exposure.
