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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
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Segment
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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
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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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Last updated: October 05, 2024
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1,798 Adobe Lightroom Reviews
4.5 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 21, 2018
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"The Underrated Gem of Photo Editing"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Adobe maximized the ease and integration of Lightroom into Photoshop, especially when it comes to RAW files, allowing the versatility of the product to mesh with the more popular software.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Depending on your hardware, importing files can still be slightly slower than desired.

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

As soon as I open a RAW file, I can get right into editing. I don't have to worry about integration over competing software--I can do it all with the Creative Network Adobe has put together. For me, it's all streamlined quite well.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jun 13, 2018
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4.5
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"Fantastic Produ"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Photoshop Lightroom is highly efficient and quality

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

The program can be hard to learn at first. And is sometimes a little confusing.

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

Easy access to files currently being worked on, easy conversion to other formats. Once a work flow is learned the program helps me accomplish my job very quickly.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 13, 2018
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4.5
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"Fun and powerful"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Its very intuitive, expressive. Built in features like automatically gives you full screen previews on external monitor

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Exporting is a bit of a crazy user flow. It seems to be the weakest link.

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

Quickly make images look pro, polished

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 12, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Intuitive Photo Editing"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I like how easy Lightroom is to use to edit photos. It is very intuitive software.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

I dislike the way you have to import photos that are deep in a folder file on a network drive. It can be cumbersome.

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

Photoshop Lightroom allows us to quickly edit photos that are taken by employees on any device and create better quality photos.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 30, 2018
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4.5
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"Easy to use"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

The best feature is that you can have two photos side by side while editing. It allows you to see your work.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

It can be a little confusing trying to save your new files.

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

Lightroom helps you batch edit saving you a lot of time.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 30, 2018
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4.5
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"Basics for Photographers"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Though mobile photo apps provide convenient on-demand photo editing, the desktop Adobe Lightroom program is a favorite desktop system among photographers. Lightroom's customer friendly layout -- and streamlined editing options prove to be easy to learn and implement.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Lightroom can be overwhelming for people who do not understand what all the editing options do. For people who simply want to increase saturation or crop images -- this is not the program. Lightroom's editing options can become complex, when you start to explore what is available on the platform.

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

Photoshop Lightroom proves to be a solution for lackluster images. The most recent job that I used Lightroom for, required that I provide higher quality images with sharper colors and brand sensible tones. Overall images used for the job's tasks (brand revamping and social media content creation) were streamlined to reflect brand properly.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 18, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Raws rule"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I love using Lightroom to process a large amount of raw files at once.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

I wish lightroom had a little more features

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

We use Lightroom to print bulk posters

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 16, 2018
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4.5
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"Great easy UI design for editing pictures"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Its easy to make presents and mass edit a large amount of photos.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

They are trying to force the cloud based lightroom when many prefer using the desktop version

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

Uniform editing, consisent look of brands in pictures

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Apr 06, 2018
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4.5
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"Lightroom"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Ease of use. It can organize your photos into one large, searchable catalog, and offers a wide range of image adjustments, enhancements and one-click presets. Photoshop is perfect for in-depth image manipulation, but is also set up for artists, illustrators and designers.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

used to not like the subscription. but thankfully that has changed.

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

editing images to have a final image for catalogs

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 12, 2018
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4.5
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"Good Experience with Photoshop Lightroom"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I like this for final touches on photo edits. I do initial editing in photoshop, but I use Lightroom to give images those final few touches.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

I don't particularly dislike anything, though I do with it had more versatility with editing.

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

I'm able to create better quality images for promotion, using this product.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 01, 2018
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4.5
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"Need to edit the look and feel of an entire album of photos? Use lightroom."
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

It is easy to mass edit a ton of photos and synchronize settings such as tone, color, contrast, color balance, and watermark photos. It saves so much more time than photoshop and performs better when it comes to fine tuning photos.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Requires a lot of screen size to use effectively, it may be harder to use if on a laptop. Different tabs and steps for processing may be confusing at first.

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

I have done mass photo editing and saved myself hours of time. It has also saved me time in quickly seeing which photos are salvageable and which ones are too blurry/off focus.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 31, 2018
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4.5
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"Excellent Photo Editing Software"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

This software brings in life to the photographs. with so many diverse editing and enhancement options.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

The software is not free ware and you need a licensed version to have full access to all tools

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

lightroom is of best use for bloggers and professional photographers as well as graphic designers.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 28, 2018
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4.5
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"Best editing Software to date!"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I can easily apply the same editing, ie brightness, contrast and any editing that I do, to multiple images in a click. Very basic, I can blur certain parts by just easily selecting them, which is my favorite tool! Gives it a very natural edit.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

That the edit can not be dragged to any other Adobe software.

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

Helps in editing images very naturally. I can also add logo to all my images in one click.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 26, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Great Workflow Tool For Photographers"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Lightroom makes it easy to edit and improve a large amount of photos. There are also a wide variety of features that are easy to use. While photoshop really shines with layers and manipulation, Lightroom is great for organizing storing and sharing photos.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

The cost is a little on the higher side and sometimes uploading can take a long time.

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

I recently took portraits of all everyone in the company, Lightroom made is easy to upload and organize all the photos. It was easy to apply a desired filter on the photographs. The batch processing definitely saved me a lot of time editing.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 16, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Excellent photo editing and management software."
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Lightroom brings the brilliance of adobe photoshop into a simple streamline program. It offers many features to make photo editing and management so much easier. The lightroom helps you sort, tag and rate photos you've added with ease and even upload them to most social websites straight from the program. An over all great photo editing program, that brings the best editing features of photoshop into a stripped down, easy to use application.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

It goes very well with photoshop for complicated editing but lacks the features themselves. Sometimes organising the catalogue can be complicated, especially for new imports etc. and is something you will want to keep on top of or you'll get very confused.

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

Lightroom saves us a lot of time, which helps to do the work faster and take on new work quicker. It creates professional finishes every time and manages to recover a lot of photos that you would immediately think were rejects.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 16, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Best for Workflow"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

I like how it organizes all of my photos and allows extensive organization (collections, smart collections, etc.).

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

I HATE how I can't export multiple files from the develop or library window to a wider variety of color profiles. I work at a newspaper, and I want to be able to export to a better color space that isn't sRGB. But in order to export to the right color space, I have to go to the print window and export each image one-by-one. It's a total waste of time, so I just send them in sRGB with less saturation... which is NOT a good fix. Also, Lightroom shouldn't be a CC program. There isn't enough to it that people actually use.

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

I can quickly pull together multiple photos for packages and so forth.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 15, 2018
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4.5
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"Must have for professional or personal photo management and light editing"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

-easy to use interface -an ability to organize images into collections, assign keywords, and create folders -editing tools that are sufficient for most simple photo correction needs -map feature if your photos are GPS tagged -variety of file format options for web and print -ability to create books and slideshows

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

-importing large amount of images can be slow and sometimes the application crashes -can be tricky to learn all the tools in the beginning, but video tutorials and support are readily available -not as many advanced retouching options as actual photoediting software such as Photoshop -best suited for photos as opposed to other image types

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

I have been using Lightroom for years to organize our photo and image collections and do most of the editing (using Photoshop for advanced editing only)

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 14, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Easy to use and organize"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Lightroom is an easier solution for simple photo editing in comparison to photoshop. Great way to upload, organize and store photos.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Sometimes importing images from camera SD card can lag or take several times to prompt it.

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

I use lightroom to organize and store photos. Creates an easy way to search photos

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 11, 2018
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4.5
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"Great for Photographers"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

You can easily import photos from your memory card and have them stored within Lightroom. You can easily make edits and corrections to one photo or multiple photos at one time. Photos also can be easily imported into Photoshop for more invasive editing.

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

Improvements to the UI on the left column on the Catalog/Folders/Collections - it's very stark. Doing more corrections to photos that aren't shot in raw.

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

File Saving and Organization - we have used Lightroom to easily store our collections of photoshoots in an organized manner. Time Saving - we are able to make multiple corrections at once instead of editing each photo in Photoshop (very time consuming).

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 10, 2018
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4.5
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"Modification of images"
What do you like best about Adobe Lightroom?

Adobe photoshop is a fairly simple application, user friendly, easy to access and light, it can be used in any PC

What do you dislike about Adobe Lightroom?

You may lack some tools to make the job easier, even though it is quite complete

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

I have modified images for clients

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