Lightroom mobile has been out just a week and already there’s evidence that what we’re using now is very much a 1.0, with new features in the works. This shouldn’t be surprising: the original Lightroom started fairly bare and aggressively added new features after its release.
One of the top surprises I’ve heard from people is the lack of a way to edit metadata for photos in the app—star ratings, keywords, IPTC data, and the like. I suspect those were probably planned for the app but held back so Adobe could ship the first version on the schedule they set for themselves.
Now, it’s clear that star ratings and other probably other metadata features are being worked on, following a tweet posted by Adobe’s Tom Hogarty this morning:
LrMobile eng mgr(Torsten) and design lead(Kai) talk star ratings over dinner in SJ.(And yes, that's an iphone) pic.twitter.com/doMoJWDTXT
— Tom Hogarty (@LR_Tom) April 15, 2014
Of course, Hogarty doesn’t offer a timeline, but it’s promising to see them work on features that will beef up the app.
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Adobe is way behind. Photogene already has this ability & it is quite a respectable editor as well.