Adobe for the Android version of the Lightroom mobile application added Ultra HDR image editing support. Ultra HDR is a new image format supported by Google’s latest Android 14 system, which allows our smartphones to take better-looking photos.
Importantly, Ultra HDR isn’t the bad kind of HDR, it uses a wider range of light and dark tones to represent an image – closer to what we see with our own eyes, appearing as brighter whites on the HDR display rather than the flatness that we usually associate with “HDR” photography. “Ultra HDR is how Android phones record and read HDR photos, and the files are in the standard JPEG format, so they’re also backwards compatible with SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) displays.
Adobe Lightroom added new HDR support in Android version 9.0.0, which is now available on Pixel 7, 7 Pro and 7A phones running Android 14. After turning on the option to import HDR photos in Settings, when importing an Ultra HDR image for editing, you’ll see a new HDR icon in the upper-right corner, and tapping on it will show you a histogram with additional HDR highlights visible. If you’re using a device that doesn’t support this feature, this part of the histogram will appear in red.
Viewing HDR images requires an HDR display in addition to apps that support HDR images, and apps like Instagram remove the metadata from images when users upload them, so you can only see SDR images. Currently, Adobe recommends exporting images to AVIF format, which is the format supported by Google Chrome.
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