Adobe Lightroom Reviews & Product Details

Lightroom is the absolute best. It makes my good shots way better!

Adobe CC is really expensive. It pains me that I might have to try and find something more affordable.

I make my photos better for our webpage and recruitment materials.

Lightroom makes it easy to work with large numbers of images -- and get through them quickly. With most new releases, functionality continues to get better, and often I don't need to do further image editing in Photoshop. Love how it has scaled my workflow.

The RAW processing engine isn't quite what it is in some other applications (I'm looking at you, Capture One). Also, there has been some feature bloat that I just don't use (Blurb books integration, maps, etc.). Previous versions have had some performance issues, but those have been significantly improved with version 2018.

Quite simply, speed and volume.

Very useful tool for batch processing photos. I love how easy it is to come back in after capturing a series of photos, and then realizing that they all need one touch-up or improvement, you can simply apply a change to all of a series, or group of photos. I like the batch edit that you can apply simultaneously to many photos instead of having to open one file at a time. I also like how easy it is to see the adjustments that you are making before you apply them (the historogram. I also love how easy it is to organize photos into folders or projects in lightroom. On a PC you have to create the folders indipendently outside of a program, but while in Lighroom you are allowed to create folders and organize them all while in the program.

I dislike how many of the more powerful photo manipulating tools, found in Phototshop, are not available in lightroom. Its simple for me to understand why Adobe has them broken apart. They can make twice as much selling 2 products that could have been written into one program.

I use lightroom to manage my photo library. Its great at handling lots of images, quicker than priview (MAC) or Windows photo viewer (PC). I use Lightroom to manage file names and folders.

Great organizational and solid library management features.

Just like any Adobe photo editing tool, it eats up RAM and can run slow.

We use Lightroom to process all of our RAW photos from our events and programs.

I like the batch process editing of lightroom, the auto features, and certain effects you can add.

This program can't quite encapsulate all the things I would like to do with certain photos. I can't edit on a very specific pixel perfect level, it's for overall photo editing/corrections.

It's good to use the auto features, and create your own. Good for amateur editors.

I love the editing tools and that I can edit a group of photos all at once.

I wish there were more tools from photoshop. Not everything I'm used to is there.

I can edit photos quickly and export them together so I can post them in a timely manner.

Complete end to end workflow with category management and more. Really streamlined managed of all the photos and great user support and plugs. A lot of the plugin support is user provided so there's a lot of free options to choose from. I also like that your images are kept from a historical perspective so you never have to worry about overwriting it. I do wish there was more support to deal with duplicates better.

Cumbersome editing tools, photoshop is much better for one on one editing with high flexibility. Usually I export out to photoshop. Duplicate and exporting library is a bit wierd.

We mostly work through prototyping with this software.

The straightforward but flexible organizational catalog system, good RAW processor, integration with adobe photoshop, "Smart Previews" are incredibly useful for working on the go.

Performance and speed moving through and editing larger numbers of images. Performance also suffers greatly when a lot of adjustment brushes have been applied to an image. The RAW processor is not as strong as others (Capture One) but also lacks the precision and control of Photoshop. Updates for new camera bodies aren't as timely as they could be, despite Camera RAW being updated for photoshop/bridge.

Keeps me and my files organized and the addition of smart previews has allowed me to more easily edit large batches of photos while on-the-go without having to move too many files around

It's like Photoshop but enhanced 20X better

Some things are easier in photoshop than in Lightroom

No problems

I love the fact that I can save photo editing settings for 1-click fixes, then export all of the images to a folder with my logo watermarked!

The menus aren't all user friendly. I need to take more time to learn the more advanced settings.

Batching social media images are are bright, clean, and crisp.

I can access lightroom on my phone, on cloud and on my desktop. It is an absolutely great tool for turning your photos into magically brilliant.

It is a little complex to use while importing pictures from an external source to my desktop.

I am using it to edit my freelancing photography assignments and photoshoots.

Easy to insert a watermark on multiple images, great for quick/generic color correction

Interface is pretty vastly different from other Adobe software. For new/inexperienced users it's probably great, but for people who have been using Adobe software for years, there's a bit of a learning curve as the tools are minimized and rearranged.

It's perfect for photos that just need light correction and watermarking and are just going to be used for social media. Much faster than doing them individually in Photoshop.

Ability to color correct photos, even those that have previously been edited by someone else. Batch editing, side by side views, tons of features get the exact effects you're looking for. Great tutorials whether you're just getting started or becoming more proficient. Plenty of export options.

Overwhelming when you first start to use the software, takes a bit to get used to things as it doesn't have the same layout and features as the rest of Adobe's Creative Suite.

Thumbnail views are a big time saver, as I don't have to open each photo in preview or Photoshop before being able to weed out the good from the bad. Batching is also a big time saver.

I mostly enjoy the adjustment brush feature, which allows you to pinpoint changes you may want on one part of the photo, and not others. I also love the ability to save presets.

It sometimes doesn't play nicely with plugins I have for it. No matter what plugin I use, it seems to crash once in a while, which is very frustrating.

When a client brings me a batch of many photos they need correcting, I always choose Lightroom, over Photoshop. I'm able to make changes, copy the effect and apply it to many other photos in that batch, with a few clicks.

The best features of lightroom are the ease of editing and the management of large groups of files. Adjusting RAW photos is quite powerful, and allows you to create presets to quickly apply changes to an entire set of photos. For example, a set that was shot with the same conditions and camera settings will require the same general edits. In addition to editing, the filehandling is quite helpful. You can quickly and easily rate photos using hot keys and later filter your folder by rating. This makes it easy to quickly scrub through a shoot, rate your favorites, and get right to editing the best shots.

In some cases Lightroom (on Windows 7) would "hang" for a minute or so when handling my Nikon RAW (.NEF) files. Perhaps a cache issue, but I never noticed this with RAW files from other camera manufacturers.

We needed a solution to filter and edit a huge cache of photos for an NGO that had a number of photographers working in several locations. We never had a good "over-the-web" solution to gather RAW photos more quickly and in smaller batches, as internet was too poor in the regions where the NGO worked. So we needed something that would allow us to get through huge photo dumps. Lightroom seems to be designed for this precise task and is the preferred tool for this job.

The presets in the software make it easy to correct common photo errors such as over/under exposure, incorrect lighting, light temperature, etc.

I do not like how images are imported into the program but not actually saved as a lightroom file. It is not always clear when you want to return to editing an image where it is located. The image stays in its original folder outside of the program - if you do not export the edited image technically it is not saved...its just housed within the program. Its a setup that is much different from the other adobe products - so it took a while for me to get used to the filing system and how to find my images when needed.

There are still instances when I need to use adobe photoshop to make complex edits to a photo but for quick fixes and photo specific problems (exposure, lighting, temperature) lightrooom is my first choice because the tools work pretty intuitively. The learning curve was low - When I first began using the software I just opened up the program and began clicking buttons and soon I was up and running with it. (I did have prior experience with other adobe product).

This is by far the best batch processing (for any kind of media).

I dislike the catalog system. I'd prefer to use my OWN sorting methodology that would selectively update/sync.

Time-saver when processing thousands of images.

Ease of importing and processing images; overall functions are helpful for working efficiently.

I would LOVE to be able to use my Lightroom database via Dropbox to keep my photos synced between my desktops and my laptops.

I use Lightroom to process my photography and apply watermarks to collections of images for use online.

So much Power! I can manipulate the photo's any way I want. This makes your photo's into art. I sometimes get on a roll and create a library of stock art to work with. Do not be intimidated, take a class if you are overwhelmed.

Icons could be bigger so that I could see them. I realized how dated my PC was getting, it takes a long time to load pictures. could have an easier to read interface. The icons are hard to understand unless i hover the mouse over them.

I can do my own advertising without the need for hiring an outside firm. This used to cost us much money.

Photoshop Lightroom allows you to select and process large numbers of photos much more quickly than you could in Photoshop.

Waiting for photos to pop open. But a small wait is to be expected when you're opening dozens of images!

This speeds up my workflow anytime I want to edit a full batch of photos I've taken. I primarily use this for my personal photography. The color balance alone makes a stop in Lightroom en route to Photoshop for fine-tune retouching worthwhile.