Using Adobe Cloud for smartphone photos
Saturday 21 February 2026, 16:32 by Nando Harmsen | 1,659 views | 2 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Do you use Lightroom? Do you also take photos with your smartphone? You can easily get your smartphone photos into Lightroom and catalogue them straight away.
Do you regularly take photos with your smartphone? Then you probably have a lot of photos on your smartphone, which may also be stored in iCloud or Google Drive, or one of the other cloud services.
Do you use Lightroom or Lightroom Classic? Then you can also use the cloud storage included with your subscription for your smartphone photos. They are then immediately available in Lightroom and Lightroom Classic.
All you need is Lightroom Mobile on your smartphone. You can install it for free, and with an Adobe subscription you can link it directly to Adobe Cloud. Import the photos on your smartphone into Lightroom Mobile and they will be stored in the cloud storage.
The moment the photos are in Adobe Cloud, they are also available in Lightroom. You can catalogue, edit and export them, and even share them with friends if you want. It's that simple.
Do you use Lightroom Classic? Then you do not use Adobe Cloud storage directly in principle. But you can. Enable the synchronisation function and the photos in Adobe Cloud will appear in Lightroom Classic.
This gives you a very easy way to get the photos from your smartphone onto your computer, and into Lightroom Classic as well. The advantage is that you have all your photos in one place this way.
Don't you use the Adobe cloud storage included with your subscription yet? Then this may be a reason to take another look at it.
About the author
Nando Harmsen has been photographing for more than 40 years. He specialises in wedding photography and landscape photography. Nando also gives talks, workshops, masterclasses and photo trips, and regularly reviews new and interesting equipment.
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2 comments
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bram.stanja@gmail.com wrote on Wednesday 25 February 2026 at 10:24
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Another nice thing is that you can also shoot in raw in Lightroom mobile with an iPhone. Handy when I don’t have my camera with me and the standard photo still needs editing. And on vacation to occasionally edit raw photos from my Sony and make a backup using the iPad. Saves me taking a laptop along.
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