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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
Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Dec 17, 2020
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Mrinal M.
Senior Member Of Technical Staff
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"Very crisp tools to handle editing and illustrations"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

All filters, tools and prominent use of light options

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Customisations are too independent to run at times

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

Branding images and content

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 15, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Ellen B. avatar
Ellen B.
Travel Agent
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"Great unique photo editing features for professional quality."
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I love the selection tool where you can edit lighting and color of just one area of the photo -- selected as a circle or drawn area. I also love that you can edit individual colors on the photo for saturation, hue, and brightness. Both of these features make it easy to edit photos to look very professional.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

For some reason on my desktop computer it is tricky and time-consuming to upload new photos. They load extremely slowly. And then when I'm ready to export, they only export to my "recent" file folder, and I am not able to select the export destination.

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

My photos look much more professional as compared to other photo editing programs I have used. I think the primary reason is how easy it is to edit lighting differently in different areas of the photo. I can also make my own presets which is fun to try!

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Dec 14, 2020
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Overall Rating:
5.0
MD
Matthew D.
Photographer
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"Lightroom is almost the only photo program you will need"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I like that it is a toning/editing software as well as as database. It's catalog has been essential to my workflow.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

It hogs so much computing power. If you are a professional, and have large catalogs, it can really bog down. It isn't as fast as Photo Mechanic, nor as good at DNG processing or RAW processing (for some files) as Capture One (nor does it tether as well as Capture One), but is a truly all-around photo solution. By building the catalog, it has to manage it, and that takes processing power. It is both its strength and its Achilles Heel.

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

LR allow me to edit and export almost any assignment. This includes batch processing, batch renaming, and batch color correcting photographs. I keyword images, set copyright, and choose all of the metadata I want in the photographs. Then, upon export, those metadata are carried with the photographs anywhere. Personally, I export straight to PhotoShelter, which produces a plugin for LR for just this purpose.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 10, 2020
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"I have so much fun using Lightroom!"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I really like how easy it is to use Light room and how accessable it is.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

I don not have anything that I do not like!

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

The benefits I have gotten from this program is how easy it is to manuvoer everything.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 07, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Creative Bal Bi R P.
Art Pro Finalizer
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"Best For Both Beginner to Pro"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

The best part is festive photo colour grading, most of the time the AUTO button has done the job and save lots of time, but tweaking with the brushes is my favourite.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Nothing only archiving is not so helpful. I would like to have an option through which we can export each album with a catalogue setting with album name on it so that we can open it in any system anywhere with all the setting intact and we modify something and export new versions.

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

I'm a photographer so lightroom means a lot to me, first I tried On1, then Apple Aperture now past 4 years Lightroom becomes the default. frankly, its a time saver or I can say lifesaver for the photographers.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 02, 2020
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Overall Rating:
5.0
LK
Leanna K.
Founder
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"Very user friendly"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I love how user friendly Lightroom is. I've been using it now for a few months and have installed some presets that make it super easy to use. I would say I am still a beginner, but I was able to figure Lightroom out really quickly.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

I still have a lot to learn as to what all lightroom can do which is a bit overwhelming.

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

I have installed presets so that I am able to quickly edit my photos for Instagram and Facebook posts and stories. It has been super easy to use and I love how my photos have turned out. I now have an IG page where all my photos give a nice light & airy look to the page. I would HIGHLY recommend Adobe Lightroom to anyone who wants to quickly edit their photos to look amazing. It truly is amazing what a little change in lighting does to a photo.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 24, 2020
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Overall Rating:
5.0
KW
Kayley W.
Electives Instructors
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"Lightroom for Easy Photo Edits"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

One of my favorite things about Lightroom is the ability to download and add presets for my personal photos. It makes editing quick and easy.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

There are several applications that vary from photo to photo so sometimes I feel like to do not receive a standard edit. That could be due to my photos, it is hard to say.

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

I am able to make my pictures more professional. Lightroom enhances what I was unable to do before I started using it.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Nov 23, 2020
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Overall Rating:
5.0
JK
Jordy K.
Founder
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"Takes our photos to another level, quickly"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I love importing easy one-click presets to instantly enhance our photos. We use Lightroom almost daily, and our photos wouldn't be as professional looking without it. As all photos are different, I also enjoy using the light slide bars to make sure the exposure and contrast looking between images is a cohesive look.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

I would like if they offered an easy one click batch editing. I've seen a few old tutorials for this, but none have worked for me. If they added that, my photo editing efficiency would be off the charts!

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

The benefits for Lightroom, to me, is being able to edit images to another level relatively quickly! We haven't had any problems to solve directly with Lightroom.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 18, 2020
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"For photographers, this is a must have."
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

The ease of use to quickly process my RAW files into their best presentation.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

The fact that Adobe puts more effort towards their web lightroom solution.

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

95% of the photographic workflow. 5% still stays in Photoshop (at least for me).

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 17, 2020
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Awesome app for iphone"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Easy of use within the app, especially the ability to save presets and use them to bulk edit photos

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

While using the app on my phone, it uses a large percent of my battery life in comparison to other apps

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

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom app has allowed to me edit photos to look professional quality in an inexpensive and efficient way