A new generative AI tool in the Lightroom mobile app opens closed eyes with a single tap, works on solo portraits and group shots, and pulls from your own library to match the person's eyes.
2026-10-20 · by Moe Ameen
Adobe added Open Eyes to the Lightroom mobile app, a generative AI tool that fixes closed or blinking eyes in a photo with a single tap. Adobe announced it on the Adobe blog on October 19, 2026, alongside a second mobile tool, Generative Expand, which extends the edges of an image to fit a target aspect ratio for social sharing.
Open Eyes surfaces as a Quick Action: when Lightroom automatically detects that someone in a photo has their eyes closed, it presents an Open Eyes icon over the image, and you decide whether to generate the fix. It is not a manual brush or a face-swap step — the detection runs first, so the option only appears on shots that actually have a blink. Adobe says it works on single portraits and on group shots, and that it edits only the area that needs fixing rather than recreating the scene.
The detail that sets it apart from older closed-eyes fixes is how it sources the correction. If your Lightroom library holds other photos of the same person, Open Eyes can use them as a reference to match that person's eye color, shape, and size — so the result looks like them, not a generic pair of open eyes pasted in. Adobe frames the whole thing as a way to rescue a photo where someone blinked at the wrong moment without reshooting.
Open Eyes is free to try, and multiple outlets covering the launch reported that free users get a limited number of attempts before Lightroom suggests a Creative Cloud plan with more AI credits. At launch the tool is exclusive to the Lightroom mobile app and has not come to the desktop versions. Treat the exact free-tier limit and platform availability as a snapshot — confirm current details in the app or Adobe's release notes, since AI-credit policies change often.
Open Eyes is a rescue tool — it takes a frame you would have thrown away because someone blinked and hands it back usable. The question creators actually face next is what to do with a good people photo, and that is where Kompozy picks up. Kompozy is a content generation and publishing engine, so a single saved portrait or group shot becomes the seed for a whole run: Photo Posts and Infographic Photos built around it, a Carousel Post that tells a story across slides, a Quote Graphic, a Text Post, a Blog Article, and a Newsletter — every piece kept in your voice by the Persona Brief, then scheduled and published across the eight social platforms plus blog and email from one queue. One rescued frame goes from "didn't delete it" to a week of on-brand content everywhere you post.
Be clear about the seam: Lightroom's Open Eyes retouches the pixels of a face on your phone, and Kompozy does not open eyes, swap faces, or retouch portraits — it takes finished images and produces the multi-format, multi-platform content around them. It also generates things a photo editor can't: persona and avatar video (Persona Shorts, Persona HeyGen), Clipped Shorts from long video, and VFX hooks. So the clean division of labor is fix the capture in Lightroom, then run it through Kompozy for everything downstream. For creators who shoot people constantly, that pairing means fewer wasted shoots and a far bigger content output from each one.
Open Eyes is a generative AI tool in the Lightroom mobile app, announced October 19, 2026, that opens closed or blinking eyes in a photo with a single tap. When Lightroom detects a blink, it shows an Open Eyes icon as a Quick Action; it works on solo portraits and group shots and edits only the area that needs fixing.
If your Lightroom library contains other photos of the same person, Open Eyes uses them as a reference to match that person's eye color, shape, and size, so the correction looks like them rather than a generic set of open eyes. Without reference photos it still generates a fix, but the library match is what makes the result most accurate.
Open Eyes is free to try in the Lightroom mobile app, and outlets covering the launch reported that free users get a limited number of attempts before Lightroom suggests a Creative Cloud plan with more AI credits. At launch it is exclusive to the mobile app and is not available in the desktop versions of Lightroom. Confirm current limits in the app, since AI-credit policies change.
Yes. Lightroom opens the eyes on one frame on your phone; it does not publish it. Kompozy takes that finished photo as a seed and generates the surrounding content — Photo Posts, carousels, quote graphics, a blog, a newsletter, text posts — keeps it on-brand via the Persona Brief, and schedules and publishes it across the eight social platforms plus blog and email.