Adobe Lightroom mobile can now open closed eyes in photos with a simple tap
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Adobe Lightroom mobile can now fix closed eyes with one tap. It uses generative AI and pops up automatically when it spots sleepy faces.
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Adobe has added a small but very specific edit to Lightroom on mobile: if a photo has someone with their eyes closed, the app can now open them with a single tap using generative AI.
The feature is coming to Lightroom on iOS, iPadOS, and Android. When the app detects that a person, or even a group of people, has closed eyes, it surfaces a new Open Eyes Quick Action right on top of the image.
That makes the tool hard to miss and easy to use. Adobe is clearly aiming at the old problem of almost-perfect photos ruined by one bad blink, the kind of thing people used to fix manually or just give up on.
This is not the first time Adobe has tackled the problem. Photoshop Elements has offered a way to save a photo by opening a subject’s eyes for nearly a decade, though DPReview notes that Elements gets the replacement from another photo.
The mobile Lightroom version now folds that idea into a faster, more direct workflow. One tap, and the app does the awkward part for you.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the kind of AI feature that feels useful instead of theatrical. Fixing a blink is boring, which is exactly why it works. Adobe keeps proving the best generative tools are the ones that quietly patch up human clumsiness instead of pretending to be magic.
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