Adobe Lightroom

“Without really knowing your personal/financial situation, it’s hard for me to tell you flat out that Lightroom is worth the investment. However, if you can float $10/mo, I can state with certainty that it’s the best app to improve your photo editing skills. It is one of the best RAW editors I’ve ever used and it has a vast amount of photo management and editing tools. The $10 Lightroom plan also comes with 1 TB of storage, which is great because you can sync your photo library in the cloud (assu”

“AI content flagged on 100% real images: So disappointed that Lightroom is considered an AI photo editor now when I’ve been manually editing my real photographs for 20 years with this program. Now even using a linear gradient on the foreground or sky of a 100% real photograph will get your picture flagged as AI on social media. Most people don’t respect that and I’ve lost credibility. It dings your reputation, your integrity as a human. Severely disappointed in this shift. Will be moving away fro”

“Once you decide photography is going to be a strong interest for you into the future, yes, Lightroom is great if you have a decent desktop machine to work on. It’s the gold standard for photo editing and storage management. There’s a wealth of tutorials built on Lightroom. Also, most third party players in the photo world have plugins for Lightroom that make things easier [as you grow deeper into photography] Moving to Lightroom today will be easy. Trying to migrate to Lightroom 4 years from n”

“Absolutely, yes! Shooting in RAW and creating your own customized edits of photos in Lr makes a huge difference. It's not too dissimilar from taking film photos and developing them in a Dark Room. And at $10/month you can get a bundle that includes Ps as well. Even the best photographers use Lr. Those who claim that they only use what comes out of the camera have a unique talent all on their own which is massively difficult and takes years to master.”

“I get the Photoshop / Lightroom combo for $10/month and I think it's absolutely worth it. I used to pay twice as much for Netflix and got a hell of a lot less value.”

“Since Adobe change their product prices and now want to charge me 17,30 chf (22 USD equivalent) per month for a Foto-Abo (20GB) instead of 10,75 CHF which is what I used to pay, I refuse to continue that subscription for that price. Now I m looking for alternatives to pay less. I have realized that different online shops sell the yearly subscription for Lightroom, and here in Switzerland is currently being listed for 140 CHF approx. (179usd). Which I still find to high. At the same time I have f”

“It's a good product, but it's FAR FAR too expensive for the hobbiest. You'll end up paying thousands of dollars for it over the years. And you're at the mercy of price raises, etc. Myself I have the last single purchase version from before they went to a subscription model. It's great, and I still use it. But if I need to replace it I'll look into anything else. IMO, software subscriptions only make sense for business use, not home/hobbiest use.”

“Not worth it: It’s great until you need to contact support. They say I don’t have an account when I give them my email. But they dang sure took the money out of my bank account.”

“This is a game-changer photo editing app. It’s easy to learn and easy to get hands-on with. It’s basically a download-and-use app and doesn’t require any complicated integrations. With the Creative Cloud app, it’s straightforward to install and get running. These are what I feel about the app so far: 1. Exceptional workflow efficiency: Non‑destructive editing, fast RAW handling, and reliable catalogue management make it ideal for large shoots and multi‑day content production. Sorting, filtering,”

“Hey people. I've got that problem with Lightroom. I can't even use my own saved preset, it shows always that screen. I did install the latest version, patched with GenP latest version, I already installed Adobe Photoshop latest version and patched the same and also installed CameraRaw just to use Lightroom Presets. But still no luck. Can someone help me? Thank you!”

“Lightroom Classic user here. I often work with my laptop not connected to the internet. On flights, WiFi off to conserve battery, etc. Just recently without being connected to the internet, I used a built-in preset that I have been using for many years. I have used it thousands of times while not being connected to the internet. When I click on the preset now, the photo flashes with the preset and then going back to how it was before, and I get a notification that LC needs to connect to the ”

“Classic has become brutally slow on Windows for me. It takes several seconds to -> from one image to the next. I really don't understand this. My machine is old but has a best-available-at-the-time 4-core/8-HT CPU, a 1080 Founders, 32GB of RAM -- it shouldn't be crawling. I have 160k photos, which is a "large" catalog but isn't even remotely "huge." The "feature most in need of update" IMO is the book module. I'd love to be able to use it for some of the "newer" MagCloud formats like digest ”

“Your best option is not to try learning / using some "free alternatives" to Lightroom Classic, because they are not real alternatives. They don't offer the organizational and workflow capabilities of LrC, nor the powerful Camera Raw editing engine. Instead you should get the, now available, "true monthly" LrC / Lr subscription, which can be cancelled after a month or two, without any penalties. I explain this in detail in this older comment. Since you don't use LrC often, this would be the b”

“Can't even crop an image anymore, every update is slower and more obnoxious. The tools section has been replaced with an AI assistant and the actual tools have moved. Many contests and artist opportunities don't allow art that has used AI in the process. AI being integrated into all of the tools, even tools that weren't labeled that way before has made this basically unusable for me as an artist. I wish you would give us the choice to disable AI tools completely.”

“I'm in the same boat and I'm now trying dark table. I think it's just a bit too powerful and quirky. The UI designers made some questionable design choices, definitely. It seems you need an MSc in Darktable to do something that would be simple in Lightroom. But it was either that or paying for a subscription I won't be using all too often.”

“It all depends on what you need. Lightroom was best for me when I was doing heavy shooting. As it had the best hierarchical tag so I could state "Shooting Location" and it would auto add in city, state, etc. And I never found any other program to work as well for large catalogs. Plus it has a lot of good quick editing tools. A weekend convention studio shoot for cosplayers (around 400 raw studio shots) I can trim, edit, and color correct all of them within 2 hours now. This isn't "Wedding leve”