Galaxy S23: Adobe and Samsung Partner to Bring Pro-Level Photo Editing
Exclusive: If you're an enthusiast shooting with the latest Samsung smartphones, Adobe's software will handle their raw photos and sync them to Samsung PCs.
Adobe and Samsung have banded together to ease one of the difficulties of advanced smartphone photography. Samsung's new Galaxy S23, S23 Plus and S23 Ultra phones will exclusively use Adobe's Lightroom software to handle the raw-format photos that pros and enthusiasts prefer.
Most of us are fine with plain old JPEG and HEIC, the formats that phones use to store photos. But raw photos, stored in the Digital Negative format, DNG, that Adobe invented, offer higher image quality and more editing flexibility when you want to fiddle with exposure, color balance, sharpening and other factors.
The problem is that raw files also are a pain to handle, which is why the Samsung-Adobe partnership — revealed exclusively to CNET — is notable. Once you take a photo using Samsung's Expert Raw camera app, you can open them directly in Lightroom with one tap, the companies said. Read More…