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About Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom is a cloud-based photo editing solution, which provides features such as collaboration tools, customizable presets, custom categorization, mobile access, image labels, level adjustment, intelligent image search, cropping and rotating, focus shifting, and import/export.

Using Adobe Lightroom’s collaboration tools, users can benefit from the ability to share an album of photos with collaborators to edit the photos together before sharing them.


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(290)
Value for Money
4.2/5
Features
4.6/5
Ease of Use
4.4/5
Customer Support
4.1/5

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Larry
Larry
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  • Industry: Photography
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Adobe Lightroom - The Field Photographer's Must-have Software

Reviewed on 2022/02/15

Without Adobe Lightroom, my business would experience longer delivery times to publish content....

Without Adobe Lightroom, my business would experience longer delivery times to publish content. Lightroom enables extremely fast import of new image files and export of finished art. Lightroom enables lightning-fast search and retrieval of images I need to review and select for published content. And lastly, Lightroom handles all aspects of image file management - of over 140,000 images located on multiple hard drives. Lightroom is a competitive advantage in my business.

Pros

I have been a Lightroom user since the beginning of Lightroom, and it has become a critical part of my business processes. I really value Adobe's technical support and frequent updates to the product as new cameras and new capabilities are introduced to the market. One feature of Lightroom that literally saves me hours every day is the keyword tagging and search feature. As a writer and book publisher, it is critically important to me that I be able to find specific photos in my archive of over 140,000 images. Using Lightroom, I can enter a few keywords and Lightroom finds images tagged with those values within seconds. This capability alone is the difference between published a finished book layout in time, or missing a deadline.

Cons

There is not much that I don't like about Lightroom, but I must admit that there is one aspect of the product design that sometimes confuses novice users. That aspect is the data architecture it assigns when importing images, which assures that the original photo file is untouched. Essentially, Lightroom never changes an original image because it records the "path" to the location where each image existed at the time of import. Then, as edits are made to an image, a text file is created to record edits made, such as "increase contrast by +2" or "adjust horizon by -21 degrees." The most common complaint I hear from novice users is "my image disappeared from Lightroom." Invariably, when I help these individuals I learn that the user had changed the folder name, or the location of the file on the computer, which changes the "path" Lightroom uses to find the underlying image - remember, Lightroom does to protect the original file from accidental changes.

Bruno
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Lightroom Features and Usability

Reviewed on 2022/06/15

In general, I see a friendly program that I can import my photos, edit them, put them in collections...

In general, I see a friendly program that I can import my photos, edit them, put them in collections and export them in a very
fast and dynamic. I managed to solve the delay in my daily workflow with photography. TODAY is essential for my workflow
and I do not intend to exchange for similar programs on the market.

Pros

The amazing and time-saving features are the import and export menu. In import you can easily import and analyze
all photos and put them in collections, and quick export to generate the final file type.

Very easy to use of course, dedicated to learning. Later we understand that the program is very easy and intuitive.

It integrated with my current programs and especially photoshop. It is even possible from within the Lightroom interface to export to photoshop
with just one click.

Cons

I miss a feature that works with videos more thoroughly. I know that little by little this can be implemented.
I find it a little difficult to customize tabs and menus on the desktop.
Regarding the integration requirement, I liked the way it integrates with Photoshop and when it comes to exporting to the cloud, it's easy.
It was a very powerful feature that Adobe put in.

Alternatives Considered

Adobe Photoshop

Reasons for Switching to Adobe Lightroom

Because it has powerfully adapted to my flow, with importing, editing, cataloging and exporting very dynamic. The others are programs that lack resources and end up delaying processing time much longer, even losing money.
LucyLui
LucyLui
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  • Industry: Entertainment
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

There's better out there for less money

Reviewed on 2022/07/01

Pros

Was good at the time but there are better programmes out there now

Cons

Outdated, better for more photography rather than social media marketing

Lea
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  • Industry: Photography
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The one-stop solution for smaller shoots

Reviewed on 2022/05/17

I am happy with the software and can't imagine life without it. I have created so many custom...

I am happy with the software and can't imagine life without it. I have created so many custom presets for myself, it became really easy to use. If you take some time with it, you will learn it in and out and you will be able to speed up your workflow a lot.

Pros

I love how with all the new features it is so easy to edit an entire shoot in Lightroom. Now I can even do smaller skin edits and background edits with it, many times for smaller shoots I don't open Photoshop next to it, only maybe for a handful of selected images at the end. I like that it's fast. And super easy to create and upload presets, easy to customize them, very smart tools, I overall love how easy it makes photo editing. With a little work you can change the image quality SOOO much!

Cons

I'm not sure if it's only on my Mac but sometimes I do have little technical issues, mainly with the selection tools, sometimes it has a hard time showing me the parts that I selected to edit them separately. But overall it might just be some bug that will disappear with an update.

Zwelibanzi
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  • Industry: Photography
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

A Image editing software everyone must use

Reviewed on 2022/04/15

In my honest opinion, I feel that lightroom is the best color grading software I have ever used....

In my honest opinion, I feel that lightroom is the best color grading software I have ever used. The filter copy and paste option make it so easy for me to batch edit pictures for clients, helping me save time. Although many feel that it's super expensive, I think that it's worth the price. It's a great value for your money.

Pros

I started using it about five years ago. For the longest part of my life, I did not understand why I should edit a picture. But when using editing Lightroom, I saw the quality of my images go to another level. That makes it one of the best photo editors available today. If you know how to use Lightroom, you can do some premium editing. I have never seen such a variety of filters in any other application. It provides some next-level editing. There is the convenience of being able to copy and paste the same filter you wish to use on a few or even all images, which saves time on back-to-back editing.

Cons

There's only one thing I don't like about Lightroom, which is exporting the files to Photoshop to perform intensive image retouching. Because I am knowledgeable about all Adobe Creative Suites, this is not a big deal for me.

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Adobe Lightroom FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Adobe Lightroom.

Adobe Lightroom offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$9.99/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Adobe Lightroom has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000

Adobe Lightroom supports the following languages:

English

Adobe Lightroom supports the following devices:

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Adobe Lightroom offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base

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