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Adobe Lightroom Reviews & Product Details

Adobe Lightroom Overview
What is Adobe Lightroom?

Designed specifically for photo editing, Adobe Lighting is one of the most popular tools in the market used by professional photographers. Similar to photoshop, it’s considered a gold standard in editing, with a host of pre-sets available to help transform images in minutes. The platform is straightforward, and easy to use and makes it very easy to edit images using sliders, gradient, and brush adjustment tools. The platform is customizable and comes with numerous intelligence features such as facial detection that helps organize images easily.

Company Adobe
Year founded 1982
Company size 10,001+ employees
Headquarters San Jose, CA
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Adobe Lightroom Product Details
Capabilities
AI
API
Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
Adobe Lightroom Pros and Cons
Pros
  • Convenient, customizable, and easy to use environment
  • Blurring and fixing tools
  • Pre-sets and filters available
  • Camera and lens-based corrections
  • Brush and gradient adjustments
Cons
  • Fewer options than Photoshop
  • No layers and blending modes
Adobe Lightroom Features
3D Editing
Automatic Adjustments
Background Removal
Batch Processing
Brush Tools
Clone Stamp
Color Correction
Cropping
Custom Brushes
Face Recognition
Filters and Effects
Gradient Editor
HDR Imaging
Healing Tools
Image Resizing
Layer Management
Lens Correction
Masking
Metadata Editing
Noise Reduction
Panorama Stitching
Perspective Correction
Photo Enhancement
Red Eye Removal
Support for RAW Files
Templates
Text Overlay
Undo/Redo
Vector Drawing
Watermarking
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1,798 Adobe Lightroom Reviews
4.5 out of 5
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 25, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Katy S. avatar
Katy S.
Human Resources Associate
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"Lightroom is an essential tool for photo editing"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Lightroom is intuitive and easy to use. It's a powerful tool that allows you professional edits in a matter of seconds. I use it every single week, highly recommended.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

I wish it had more filter capacity to do filter edits but you really need to export to photoshop to do more of these.

What problems is Adobe Lightroom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lightroom solves the problem of quickly making my Sony A7 photos turn from amateur to more professional. It makes my business look more legit based on the high quality photo renders.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 25, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Best photo editing software. Period."
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Ease of use, preset creation, easy sharing! Lightroom is by far the best photo editing software there is! I wouldn't use anything else now that I've used Adobe Lightroom. Since it's cloud based, you can start an edit on a mobile device, then finish it on a desktop or vice versa! I also have my photos backed up via Creative Cloud and can access them anywhere, which is very nice!

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Occasionally buggy when navigating the app. It will go back to the beginning of my library sometimes, then I have to scroll all the way down to the end (over 6,000 photos in my library) to get back to where I was. This is a minor inconvenience, but something that needs to be addressed by Adobe. I have sent them feedback about the issue.

What problems is Adobe Lightroom solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Lightroom for desktop and mobile to edit photos for both personal and professional use. It makes editing photos easy and enables me to be very consistent with color and tones! I've also been able to create and share high-end presets with a growing online community of photographers. I can also collaborate with people from across the world and have access to learning resources right inside the application!

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 23, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Shreyas J.
Cinematographer
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"Adobe Photoshop review"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Adobe Photoshop is very good for photo editing their is so many options to use in adobe Photoshop

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

It is a paid application if you want to use all the options and very costly

What problems is Adobe Lightroom solving and how is that benefiting you?

Iam the photographer and i personally used Adobe Photoshop on my mobile its is very usefull for quick photo editing and its very fast

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 21, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Gloriously G.
Chief Operating Officer
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"Great software for photo editing"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I like that I can edit my photos on the go on my phone. It makes it easy and quick to showcase your pictures in the best possible light and present stunning photography.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

The software is quite expensive to subscribe to.

What problems is Adobe Lightroom solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am always on the go and the fact that it allows me to edit photos quivkly from the convenience of my phone. The interface is also very intuitive and easy to use.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 18, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Francis M.
Software Engineer
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"the fastest and most easy way to edit photos"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I like how I can create one filter and reuser to all your photos

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

there few guidelines on how to use it since lightroom is mostly used by professional photographers

What problems is Adobe Lightroom solving and how is that benefiting you?

I mostly use Lightroom for my personal use if I need to edit photos

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 17, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Caroline M.
Marketing Coordinator
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"The best software to edit!"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I LOVE that i can add presets to Lightroom. Presets can make editing time so fast and easy. The presets also make all your photos have the same look and feel. Lightroom is easy to edit any flaws and enhance the color and brightness of your photo.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Sometimes when you add a photo in, it can take a minute to register. Also, I don't particularly appreciate how it syncs to your camera roll. If you don't want it to do that, you have to go into settings to change that.

What problems is Adobe Lightroom solving and how is that benefiting you?

The benefit i realized is that people will comment how they like my filters. And it is all because lightroom lets me save filters/presets so my photos look similar and artistic. It also helps me edit out any flaws on someone's face or background.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 17, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Susanta R.
Technology Security Analyst Team Lead
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"In one word Excellent product"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Application Features are fantastic, straightforward, and helpful tools. I have been using it for quite a long time for many of my projects. Reliable Product.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Application is weighty resource hungry. The company can try something lightweight application.

What problems is Adobe Lightroom solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's a faster application, and very quickly, one can edit the picture. It has many preloaded photo filters.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 15, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Vanessa T.
Principal Digital Designer & Creative Strategist
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"Powerful Industry Leader for a Reason"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I love Lightroom because it keeps me out of Photoshop. Transitioning from doing photo editing in Ps to Lr was a transformational change for me. I am a consistent enough photographer that the global edit feature meets my needs for 90% of the editing I do in a corporate environment. What's more, the Lightroom presets are good already, and expansion packs are abundant if you need a particular effect, an occasional thing for me. More importantly, the performance versus what I've experienced in Photoshop is night and day. I was editing photos on an airplane in the non-classic version of Lightroom, which is a bit more nimble, and was able to transition back to Classic in seconds. The workflows I use are intuitive and efficient because the tool is.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

I have succeeded in pushing the limits of the tool as a semi-professional photographer in a corporate environment. If you needed features such as advanced color-matching, light correction without crazy amounts of masking, a more robust organizational system, you might find better elsewhere, although I'm not sure this isn't a weakness of the entire industry right now. Notably, I'm not too fond of the workflow to import my photos into a library and then move to Develop and think it could be either simplified or made more powerful. Right now, it sits solidly in the middle as a "meh" aspect of the software. I would also say that while I appreciate the difference between Lightroom CC and Classic, it would be great to see the best features of both combined into one UI. I accidentally open the wrong program all of the time, which can be a bit annoying.

What problems is Adobe Lightroom solving and how is that benefiting you?

We see the most significant benefit from Lightroom in two areas - first, event photography editing workflows as a whole. We try to turn around photos very quickly; otherwise they can stack up and never get used in our communication and marketing efforts. To speed things along, I can create presets that adjust for the specifics of different locations, tag the photos taken at that location if they aren't automatically tagged, and do global edits. We also use the feature to build a consistent photography style for particular campaigns and share across users. Secondly, Lightroom is great for quick sharing through their web-based tools. I also appreciate the web-based sharing tools that Lightroom offers. This feature keeps us from needing to expend additional money hosting photos we wish to share by using a third-party site if we don't want to do so or we want to keep the images more private than a public link might allow.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 14, 2021
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"LIGHTROOM review"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I love almost everything about LIGHTROOM. I love that it stores my picture as they are and I do not always have to add them. I love how it sync in both my laptop same as my phone. I love presets feature when I can just set one preset and use it all over again with small adjustments.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

There is basically nothing I dislike about Lightroom.

What problems is Adobe Lightroom solving and how is that benefiting you?

I edit all my pictures in lightroom and if needed I move to photoshop but they are sync together as well so whenever I want to go back it still have the most updated picture.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 08, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Shazia A.
Founder
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"Bringing life to your images"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Lightroom does wonder to an image. The presets can be used in the future without the pain of doing all the steps all over again.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Each tab can have a small video explaining the use for beginners.

What problems is Adobe Lightroom solving and how is that benefiting you?

The images for my travel website get edited using lightroom. I change the mood of the pic as required. and if learnt well, it's quite a handy software for the photographers.