One tap and closed eyes open again. Adobe has added a feature to Lightroom for mobile devices that fixes lowered eyelids in portraits, selfies and group shots. The update is available for iOS, iPadOS and Android and works through a Quick Action that appears automatically when the app detects a person, or a group, with their eyes closed.
The mechanism is simple to use. When Lightroom spots a subject with closed eyes, an icon called Open Eyes appears among the Quick Actions. A tap starts the replacement: the app uses generative AI to create a new pair of open eyes and place them in the photo. According to reports, the result takes into account the subject's lighting and pose, so it does not look like a patch.
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The key difference from a feature offered for nearly a decade is the reference. Photoshop Elements has long provided a similar function, but it takes the eyes from another photo of the same subject, with results that depend on how closely the two images match in light and angle. In Lightroom mobile, generative AI works without choosing an alternative shot and, when other photos of the same person exist in the library, uses them as reference to reproduce the real colour, size and shape of the subject's eyes.
The fix is not unlimited, however. Users of the free version can try the feature twice, after which they are prompted to subscribe to an Adobe Creative Cloud plan that includes more credits for AI-powered tools. The same kind of correction is possible in other Adobe apps such as Photoshop, but there it is not a one-tap operation.
The launch comes as Adobe pushes generative AI hard across its tools. Photoshop received an AI Assisted Editor mode at the end of September, which lets users describe the change they want in words, such as "open closed eyes", without marking each area by hand. On mobile, the same logic now arrives in an even more immediate form.
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