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Users consistently praise the powerful editing tools and ease of use in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, highlighting its ability to efficiently manage and enhance large photo libraries while maintaining high-quality results. The non-destructive editing feature allows for creative freedom without compromising original images. However, some users note that performance can lag with very large libraries.

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Priyanshu J.
PJ
Social Media Lead
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy, Clean Lightroom Editing That Speeds Up My Workflow Across Devices"
What do you like best about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

I like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom because it’s easy to use and has a clean, simple interface. It helps me edit photos quickly with straightforward tools and presets. I can apply the same edits to multiple photos, which saves me a lot of time. I also like that I can edit on both my phone and my laptop, which is really helpful when I’m switching between devices. Overall, it makes my workflow faster and my results better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

One thing I dislike about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is that it can feel slow at times, especially when I’m working with large files. The UI is generally simple and clean, but some tools aren’t easy to locate at first, so there’s a bit of a learning curve. It also requires a subscription, which can feel expensive for beginners. The AI tools are helpful overall, but they’re not always fully accurate, so I still end up doing manual edits to get the results I want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JC
Global Lead, Storytelling and Digital Content
Computer Hardware
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Intuitive UI and AI Airbrushing That Saves Hours"
What do you like best about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

There's a reason LR remains the #1 choice of the world's top graphics artists, photographers and designers. It's easy to use. Has intuitive UI.

And most importantly to me as a photographer, LR now offers smart AI capabilities to quickly airbrush out objects in the fore- or background without spending excessive time obsessing over the lasso tool.

This AI airbrushing feature alone has shaved almost 4 hours off my daily workload when I am working with 100s of photos to process.

The integration of LR with FrameIO is also wonderful.. it allows me to quickly upload photos to share with worldwide users.

LR is a large software footprint to have on your PC and requires a huge memory investment in SSD storage as well as plenty of RAM to run smoothly.

It performs well only if you have significant RAM resources to not affect the rest of your running apps.

Pricing is TBC as my company has an annual user license fee.

Support is brilliant with a ton of online tutorials and videos as well as quick support from the community forums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

Adobe LR can be complex to use for novices and those unfamiliar with photography processing platforms. There are many many features and this alone requires one to sit through a tutorial to harness its full capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AK
Financial Management Team
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Empowers Quality Photo Editing with Ease and"
What do you like best about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

I like the free presets that Adobe Photoshop Lightroom provides for their users. These presets help us in editing photos automatically with AI-based tools. Whenever we import a photo or video, the platform recommends different types of presets available, which include filters and editing options according to our needs. We can simply select these presets and achieve the desired results with a completely readymade photo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

I've noticed that the mobile version has limited features available when compared to the Windows version of the same tool. I would recommend new users to go for the Windows version of adobe Photoshop Lightroom rather than working on its Android or iOS version because they are useless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ralph W.
RW
Software Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Streamlined, Photographer-Focused Workflow in Lightroom"
What do you like best about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

What I like most about Lightroom is how much it streamlines my photography workflow. It feels like a highly tailored piece of software, precise, and very focused on what photographers actually need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

I still dislike the subscription model, but I’ll give Adobe credit for consistently rolling out updates and optimizations, which at least makes it somewhat more tolerable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BM
Designing Team Leader
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Advanced, High-Resolution Editing with Adobe Photoshop lightroom"
What do you like best about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

Adobe Photoshop lightroom is one of the most finest and advance photo editing tool that I have ever used I mostly use this software to make sure that the photos that we are editing for professional marketing and social media optimisation stays in high resolution. This is a tool that help us in making sure that all of our digital data is secured from fraudsters and they also stays in high quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

As this is the most advanced photo editing tool that I have ever used. So, I would like to say that there is not much con that I have experienced while using Adobe Photoshop lightroom. It is just that if they could add some third party elements during the editing process then it would become a much resourceful software just like Canva but I have no major complains with this tool also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nagesh B.
NB
Sr. Transaction processing officer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
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"Revolutionary Photo Management and Upscaling"
What do you like best about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

I like how Adobe Photoshop Lightroom can now take an old, grainy photo or a low-resolution smartphone shot and upscale it to look like it was taken on a high-end DSLR. The Super Resolution feature is pretty impressive as it quadruples the pixel count, doubling the width and height. It analyzes millions of professional photos to guess where details like hair, fabric textures, or skin pores should be, making an old photo look like it was shot on much newer hardware. I also find the photo searching capabilities really handy, as I can search for terms like 'Greenland,' 'Sunset,' or 'Red Dress' and find every matching photo in seconds, which is great for managing a large library of images. The initial setup is straightforward—you download the app, sign in with your Adobe ID, and you’re basically done. There are no 'folders' to manage; the app simply asks to access your photos, and it starts syncing to the cloud immediately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

There is no 'buy it once and own it' option. For hobbyists who only edit photos a few times a year, paying a monthly fee forever can feel like a heavy burden. If you stop paying, you lose access to the Develop module- the editing tool, effectively locking your photos behind a paywall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ishan S.
IS
Manager and Dietician at Chaitanya Homoeo Clinic, Medical Store Owner, Content Creator
Hospital & Health Care
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Delivers Professional Grade Before and After Images for Clinic and Health Education"
What do you like best about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

I work as a Dietician and Nutritionist, manage a homeopathy clinic, and also create health education and teaching content. In my daily professional work, images play a very important role for documentation, education, awareness, and patient motivation. Because of this, maintaining good image quality, clarity, and consistency is very important for me.

What I like best about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is how well it supports real, practical clinic work without making the editing process complicated. In weight gain and weight loss cases, patients are guided to follow specific diet plans, lifestyle changes, and nutritional routines over a period of time. To track progress properly and explain results clearly, before and after images play a very important role. These images are also useful for educational and motivational purposes, as they help patients visually understand the impact of diet and treatment. Lightroom allows me to adjust exposure, highlights, shadows, and clarity so that changes are visible and easy to understand, while keeping the images natural and honest.

In homeopathy practice, skin-related conditions also require proper visual documentation. Conditions such as fungal infections, acne, pigmentation, and other chronic skin problems often need before-treatment and after-treatment images for awareness and education. Along with homeopathy medicines, diet recommendations are also followed in these cases. Using Lightroom tools like texture, clarity, vibrance, selective color adjustment, and highlights control, I can improve skin detail and overall balance of the image without exaggerating results. Features like dehaze are helpful when photos are taken in uneven lighting conditions, which is common in clinic environments.

These edited images are not limited to clinic records only. I also use them while preparing health education material, writing diet and medical-related articles, creating presentations, and making educational or awareness videos. High quality visuals make explanations more effective and help students, patients, and viewers understand health concepts more clearly compared to plain text.

Lightroom is easy to use and does not feel overwhelming, even for someone who is not a professional photographer. Importing images, making basic corrections, and maintaining a consistent look across multiple photos is straightforward. I use it frequently for clinic documentation, patient education material, and content preparation. The tools are well organized and practical, which helps save time during daily work.

Integration with other Adobe tools also works smoothly. Edited images can be easily used in documents, presentations, design files, or videos without losing quality. This helps maintain visual consistency across different types of educational and clinic content.

Overall, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom plays a very important role in my professional workflow. It helps me manage, enhance, and present medical, diet, and treatment-related images in a clean and professional way. It supports patient education, motivation, progress tracking, and content creation, making it a reliable and valuable tool for real clinical practice and educational use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

One small issue I notice is that Lightroom can feel a bit slow when working with many high-resolution images at the same time. During clinic work, when I am editing multiple before and after images for weight management or skin-related cases, the performance sometimes depends a lot on system speed.

Another practical limitation is that Lightroom focuses mainly on color and light correction. For very detailed retouching or fine corrections in skin-related images used for education, I sometimes feel the need to use another tool. Lightroom works best for overall image improvement, but not everything can be done inside it.

Also, managing cloud storage and syncing can be slightly confusing in the beginning. For clinic and education work, I mostly prefer a simple and clear file organization, and it takes some time to get fully comfortable with Lightroom’s storage system.

But all these are minor and manageable issues. They do not affect my regular work much, but with smoother performance and simpler file handling, the experience could be even better for daily clinical and educational use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tim M.
TM
Web Designer, Marketing Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A Key Everyday Tool for Bulk Editing and Library Management"
What do you like best about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a key tool in my everyday photography and editing workflows. Being able to edit bulk images and visually see my library at once has kept me going back to Lightroom. Plus, the app itself improves with every update! I have been a lifelong Adobe user and Lightroom has been an essential tool in my image editing learning and growing. The tools are easy to implement and cross-compatibility is great. I can connect straight to my other Adobe products to really keep everything in a nice flow. Customer Support is always quick to answer any troubleshooting or questions I've had in the past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

The image stacking tools in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom are not my personal favorites and does not give me as in-depth layer and image control over my standard stacking tools in Adobe Photoshop itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sheeba T.
ST
Digital Marketing Manager
Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Lightroom: Essential Image Editing & Management tool for Social Media Pros"
What do you like best about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

Adobe Lightroom has an important role in my social media marketing journey. In my job, the quality of images matters the most. From being visible to being most engaging or having a better conversion rate or a good brand online image, all this depends on the image quality. For this, we always look for a good camera and a good editor. Adobe Suite is used by all of us daily, and it has a great image editing and management tool called Lightroom.

This is very useful for Social Media Team, Content Creators, Graphic Designers, Professional Photographers, TikTokers, Instagrammers, and YouTubers.

It is available in Mobile, Web, and Desktop versions.

Right from capturing to applying a filter to editing to organizing to storing. Lightroom can do all of this. It can handle thousands of photos at once. The editing is layer-based and reversible. We can tag/label photos with keywords. We can prepare high-quality images for social media platforms, catalogues, brochures, websites, and ads. It enhances portraits, landscapes, and product photos.

We can prepare wallpapers and portfolios by being as creative as we can. We can start the editing right before capturing the pic with different modes and filters. There is an Auto mode and a Professional mode. We can Geotag photos. We can set the timer to 2,5 and 10 seconds. We can divide the lens in grid, halves, or Golden. There are 2 file formats, JPEG and DNG. There is an interesting compass in the grid that aligns at the center.

Lightroom provides tools for batch-editing photos with adjustments like exposure compensation, white balance, color grading, cropping, changing background, sharpening, noise reduction, and lens corrections.

We can import pics from our gallery and refine them in Lightroom.

AI-powered features include Generative Remove for removing objects, Lens Blur for portraits, Adaptive Presets, and Select Landscape for masking.

Additional capabilities cover panorama stitching, video editing basics, and integration with Photoshop for pixel-level work.

We can sort the images by the dates of Capture, Import, and Modified.

The 'Remix' feature is the coolest one. It also has an option where we can play the step-by-step edits done on an image. We can have our edits and share with the Lightroom Community.

The Lightroom Community is fun. They share remixes. We can like, share, and follow them and add our remix. There are categories of images to explore, like people, travel, food, animals, nature, architecture, and close-up. We get inspired and ideas for editing.

Lightroom is known for cloud sync, quality edits, the process of editing,g and creative effects. Though not so easy to use. It takes a while to understand the whole software and use the feature to our requirements.

It enables cross-device editing. Lightroom integrates smoothly with Adobe Photoshop.

Lightroom is an expert in photo editing more than its competitors, like Affinity, Google Photos, and Capture One. It is said to be working well on flagship devices like Samsung Galaxy S24 and OnePlus 13R for obvious reasons of high-performance processor, large storage, and high-quality camera.

The customer support is great.

If you are passionate about photography and always find moments to capture, then you can certainly work on Lightroom for effortless editing, cutomizing photo,s and organizing seamlessly. Allow Lightroom with limited or complete access to your library and do limitless editing.

There are two versions of Lightroom.

Lightroom Classic is generally better for professional photographers due to its advanced local workflow tools, superior performance with large catalogs, and extensive customization options. Lightroom (cloud version) works well for pros prioritizing mobile syncing, but falls short for high-volume, precision editing. The choice depends on specific needs like catalog size and device usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

It is pricy. Lightroom is only available via the Creative Cloud subscription. It is not for a lifetime. If you stop paying your monthly fee, you lose access to the editing modules.

The speed of processing is slow. Lightroom requires a significant amount of RAM and a fast processor, especially when handling high-megapixel RAW files or using AI features.

It is not so easy to start as we do editing on Instagram. A little bit of learning is required. While the interface is clean, a lot of options and settings to manage like Tone Curve, Lens Corrections, and Transform, can be overwhelming for a beginner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tom l.
TL
sales and marketing
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Effortless Editing with Seamless Integration"
What do you like best about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

I love the ease of use in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, it makes editing photos for marketing materials a breeze. The quick import of photos and the user-friendly slider editing model stand out to me. I also enjoy using the Creative Suite to integrate Lightroom with Photoshop and Illustrator, allowing seamless movement of photos for adding text and headings. The ease of installation through Creative Cloud was another plus, as it was extremely easy to install alongside Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?

There is nothing i dislike about lightroom. It works so well with creative suite and I have been unable to identify a missing feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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