Adobe Lightroom Reviews & Product Details

The ability to make adjustments to such fine detail across all frequencies of light is incredibly useful. You can make all the same adjustments in Photoshop, but it is exponentially easier to make the lighting adjustments on Lightroom. I also love the feature that auto-calibrates the photo depending on what camera body and lens you were using.

I honestly can't think of anything about the program that I dislike. The interface is flawless and runs absolutely smoothly.

Lightroom helps to make the adjustments to lighting that I would normally do in Photoshop, but so much easier. These days, I'll first edit my photos in Lightroom then do some last minute polishing and filtering in Photoshop.

I love how user friendly it is. It is very easy to figure out the new features from update to update.

The amount of numerous updates, would rather have 1 new product every few years that has all the updates.

I wish there were more tutorials for new users

The ability to apply identical adjustments to various photographs at once. It organises your photos very well and has tons of profiles from which you can do lens correction. I recently got the new version which i haven't tried yet.

you need to set it up correctly or else you gonna end up with tons of duplicates

Batch image editing and organisation.. Also manipulation of perspective lines in architectural photos

Its simplicity. Lightroom is very easy to use, assuming you understand some photography basics. With the adjustment of a few sliders, I can have my desired look in no time at all. The same type of edits in Photoshop would take me much longer to do. I also love how the edits are non-destructive, so I never have to worry about saving over an original image file.

There isn't much I dislike about Lightroom. It has a very particular function and it does it well.

Often great photographs can go overlooked simply to due to poor color balance. Lightroom literally allows you to take a average photo and bring it to life within minutes. This has been become a staple within our marketing tools.

i like that one can make changes on photos and such.

i hpe that it doesnt get too complicated .

finishing films.

The best thing about linghroom is the ability to edit the hue of the picture so quick and easily, I also enjoy the effects and filters that can be used. Plus there is a lot of tutorials around to help beginners get up and designing/editing very quickly with this software.

The only thing I don't like about this software is you must use Lightroom CC to get to apps.

I have realized Lighroom is my Go-To when I am digitally enhancing any of my projects.

its very easy to use but at the same time it's very powerful.

it's not very good if you are using brand other than nikon and canon

able to retrieve light and it can save a lot of time from using other program

Easy to organize a lot of photos of products.

It takes some getting used to. Not super intuitive user interface.

Photo editing of products. Helps to select best picture out of a batch.

The overall usefulness and functionality of the software coupled with an exuberant amount of features. The integration with the rest of the Adobe stratosphere is a reason to stay!

Not a fully functional as Photoshop, however it's intended to be strictly for photo retouching. So having it be stripped down makes sense.

The benefits are definitely the integration of the

I love how we can edit and enhance the photos that were taken. All photos can be manipulated to create a whole new vibe and feel to the photo.

I dislike how we cannot cut and mask out parts and the stamp tool does not work very well. I often have to export the photo into photoshop for further edits.

We have taken many product photoshots and edited them in Lightroom to enhance each product photo. I have realized that all photography needs post edit after each initial shot.

Cataloging system, non-destructive editing, ability to add metadata, custom export features.

Some issues reading video files, catalog errors resulting in corrupted catalogs. When program crashes it can take a little while to reverify catalog when starting up.

Photography editing, archiving, exporting. Web galleries. PDFs/book

Lightroom is incredibly easy to use, and allows me to make quick photo touchups.

There isn't really anything that I don't like about Lightroom, perhaps the only thing was the initial learning curve, as it was the first adobe program I had ever used

Lightroom gives me a fast, easy, and consistent way to edit real estate photos. I can batch edit as well, which is extremely helpful when adjusting for the lens I am using, or for light.

My favorite feature of Adobe Lightroom is definitely the ability to batch edit photos by copying and pasting adjustments and applying them to many photos at once. This allows me to make general overall adjustments to large batches of pictures shot in the same setting or with same lighting - particularly useful for me as an event, portrait, and wedding photographer. The sliders make it so easy to make beautiful adjustments that are non destructive on both raw files and jpegs, tiffs, etc. I enjoy not having to use layers almost as much as I like being able to batch edit.

Lightroom has a tendency to get bogged down and run slowly/get stuck when working with a large catalog even on a lightning fast computer. I use some of the best hardware to date and the software just can't handle going through huge amounts of photos. I also wish it had a better sharpening feature. the built in sharpening just is not as good as an external plugin like Nik software, so I always have to pull my photos into Photoshop to do final sharpening. if this feature was improved, I wouldn't need photoshop for anything other than doing major photo manipulations.

Lightoom allows me to quickly batch edit and deliver huge amounts of proofs and even finalized photos to clients. It has cut my retouching time down by half as opposed to just using Photoshop. This software is absolutely necessary for all photographers no matter what kind of work you do. The time it saves me is the greatest benefit.

As a photographer, Lightroom's quick and easy raw photo editing features make it something that I could not live without. Lightroom allows you to organize your photos the way you want to and work with your photos in raw without sacrificing speed. The editing features offered are easily accessed and seen in real time. The program itself is easily navigated and on the whole yields awesome results for almost any photo. Additionally, presets allow me to further cut down on my work time.

The keyboard shortcuts are not easily found in the application itself. You'll need to do some research to get your hands on some of the tricks involved. I wish that photos could be reordered within filtered results.

Photoshop Lightroom allowed me to take a tedious and time consuming task and reduce my work time down to a small fraction of what was once required. As a real estate photographer, I am able to export photos in formats that meet my clients needs exactly.

Lightroom helps you edit an entire session consistently. You can create and save your own presets so if you're constantly shooting images that you want to turn out a certain way, you can just click the preset and voila! I highly recommend this program.

As of late, I've had a hard time re-ordering my photos. Also I wish it could auto-sync with my computer files so that if I moved files, it would know.

I'm a photographer that doesn't have time to spend editing photos after a shoot. With this software, I cut editing in half and am able to enjoy the important things - like my family!

It's easy and quick to use. I love the batch editing, through the "sync" option. I love the ability to tag photos, rate them and flag them. I am also a huge fan of the "plug ins" that make uploading to websites and exporting photos a snap! I also love the ease of using a preset as well as custom edits.

I wish their was a better way to build collages and a better way to add text.

Lightroom sorts and organizes photos so well. It's a great program for people/companies who need to organize large volumes of photos. It allows clients to tag, flag, and rate photos which makes for easy searches.

The ability to quickly edit multiple photos at the same time. I especially like being able to apply the same color corrections to a number of photos if the lighting/coloring is similar.

It takes a while to upload and export photos

I was using photoshop a lot but needed to do hundreds of photos for a website. This proved to be a more practical product

Lightroom is a specialized software, easy to use, and it shares its interface with the rest of the adobe family, so you pick it up quite fast from the beginning. I really like the way you can combine filters and settings and then saving that savings to reuse them anytime later.

I don't like the way Lightroom creates a image library, I hate seeing not work-related images taken automatically to the software library, it's the same reason why I don't use similar softwares like iPhoto.

One of the most efficient things about Lightroom is that you can treat and edit photos by batches, this makes the workflow much more efficient for both professional and amateur photographers.

My absolute favorite feature of lightroom is the ability to save settings and apply them to batches of photos at the click of a button. This is incredibly useful when you have tweaked a photo that was part of a large session. Typically the settings will be the same for each photo, and with lightroom, you can essentially paste the tweak settings and then batch export! Awesome.

The one think i'm not crazy about is the photo organization. I find that my library is really just a bunch of folders, and I tend to prefer the timeline style organization that is seen in iPhoto (Photos) or Flickr. The organization is good for professional use, but not as family friendly for chronological even order.

I am constantly using lightroom for enhanced photo manipulation for clients. The range of looks available able and the ease of application is awesome. Setting the right tone for clients through imagery is important. I used to do most of this tweaking in photoshop, but i now I've changed my workflow to start with lightroom and go from there. I love the software and the power than the presets and plugins provide. There is so much power there

Lightroom and Photoshop are two tools I use everyday and they take up 80% of my workflow. Lightroom helps me process the RAW files, making them more suitable for the editing. Lightroom has a powerful rating system: that's invaluable help when it comes to selecting your raw shots. I wouldn't be able to work as fast as I do without such feature. Another powerful feature then is the filters: after rating the shots, you can easily isolate them and move on to the second step of selection. I've got the CS6 version and it's just amazing: you can do a lot on the RAW files and it's really helpful to be able to do such a thing in an environment where you can also organize, rate and filter shots. I used to use Camera Raw for RAW editing, but now there's no point in doing it anymore. Lightroom also has astonishing implementations such as the "Edit in..." and the new "Photomerge" which, together with the feature that allows you to build up pano photos and HDR photos, make this tool a must have for photographers. Lightroom is such an all-out piece of software that it can also be used as a standalone tool for those who don't feel like going as far as using Photoshop. In fact you can also automatically place watermarks, save and convert in the format you want and many other actions on multiple images at the same time. Photoshop doesn't do that.

It's only a bit complex when it comes to the cataloguing, I mean the Library part. I'm never very clear on which pictures it still has in its library and which pictures have been removed. And the bottom bar as well is not so easy to use. I mean, it's probably because of me, I use a 13-inch MacBook Pro 90% of the time: maybe people with larger screens will feel more comfortable using the bottom tool.

I've been able to process RAW files way faster than before, being able to organize them clearly and to go over a three-step selection by using rating and filtering. Not little, I'd venture to say.