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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/450542-Adobe-Photoshop-Lightroom/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/450542-Adobe-Photoshop-Lightroom/alternatives/) # Adobe Lightroom User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.8/5 - Total reviews: 327 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.4/5 - Customer support: 4.1/5 - Value for money: 4.3/5 - Functionality: 4.6/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 256 reviews (78%) - 4 stars: 65 reviews (20%) - 3 stars: 4 reviews (1%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 1 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - Outside of managing my preschool, I handle all social media and Lightroom is great for editing the photos I take of activities within our program. - Image editing tools have helped elevate my content a lot. - Ease of use across mobile devices and web browsers. ### Most mentioned cons - It has a semi-steep learning curve, the subscription costs can be hard to justify for those just starting out, and my least favorite thing, is the black lettering on a dark gray background for 99% of the menu options making it extremely difficult at times to pick out what you are looking for - Lightroom is expensive, and the subscription can be hard to manage. - Can be very intimidating at first, when using the mobile version, the program tends to crash unexpectedly at times, especially when i got a new phone. And mostly a problem on the mobile version, i wish PNG was an export option. ## Adobe Lightroom customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 327 (page 1). ### Long time Lightroom user (going on 10-years) -- it's a must have for any professional photographer - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Molly B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have been a long-time user of Adobe Products and you simply cannot use anything else if you're looking for professional editing software. I pay for the premium monthly pack of the entire adobe suite, all the software plays nice with each other integrating useful features between them all. I love the libraries in PS for editing on repeat clients with tools and styles. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love that Adobe does useful updates when they update the software. I do love many features about lightroom, speeding up my workflow, consistent batch edits and once you learn the ropes, it's a breeze to use. #### Cons LR just did a major overhaul to their masking and it has been a major upgrade to the previous masking tools. So far I absolutely love it and it is already saving me so many previous headaches in time with masking objects/subjects. I wish they would work on their heal too, it is clunky, slow, and should work more like content-aware in PS, but I'm sure it will eventually get there. :) Nothing that would keep me from using the software. #### Reasons for choosing Adobe Lightroom I did try Capture One for a year in combination with my Adobe LR and PS products for editing. Originally I started using Capture One for the tethered photography options. While it is a wonderfully impactful piece of software, it is very complex and during a busy time I never fully wrapped my brain around using it, it was also quite expensive as a stand-alone software tool when I am probably getting the same value with my LR and PS use. I finally cut the cord and now only use LR and PS. LR has also upgraded their tethering function and it works for what I need. --- ### Lightroom is all you need to edit - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jesse S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have enjoyed using it for several years, mostly using it on my phone and it has helped get several photos in magazines. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love how user friendly, theyre constantly updating, super easy to use on phone, you can easily import to other adobe apps too #### Cons How slowly it syncs between multiple devices or how differently the pictures appear on my phone vs laptop when im editing --- ### Soooo buggy - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Chris V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have been using LR since LR 1. I loved it for years. The move to cloud based functionality while understandable from a Developer-support position has been expensive and extremely frustrating. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Great User interface, solid feature options #### Cons I'm using a new Mac with 16 Ram, just loaded my first job so this Catalog is SMALL and it is very hard to work It wont even hold a filter selection so its basically useless. #### Reasons for choosing Adobe Lightroom Long time user --- ### Adobe Lightroom Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Victor M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered If you're a photographer or want a powerful, no-nonsense editor for professional adjustments, Lightroom is a must-have. For advanced image manipulation, Photoshop might be a better choice. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Adobe Lightroom is one of the best photo editing and organization apps, widely used by professional and enthusiast photographers. It stands out for its intuitive interface, non-destructive editing, and advanced artificial intelligence features. #### Cons Paid plan – Only available with a monthly/annual subscription. Requires internet to sync files to the cloud. Limited editing compared to Photoshop, as it does not allow for layers or deeper manipulations. --- ### My Experience with Lightroom - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Gregor F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Lightroom is my favorite Adobe app for retouching my clients' photos #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I use it for its powerful advanced color correction to get the editing for all pics I take from my clients and transmit all their emotions #### Cons I felt some constraints to reach the best achievements compared to Photoshop --- ### My Favourite Editing Application. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lise-Mari Anne L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have used Adobe Lightroom for approximately 7 years for my photography business. It has been a game changer for me and really easy to use. The new AI feature cuts my editing time in half which increases my productivity. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like that it offers a simple user interface and allows for more than adequate photograph editing for an affordable price. #### Cons It takes alot of CPU power and can therefore slow down the computer at times. --- ### Lightroom simplifies photo retouching - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Keely W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It's a practical and complete software for my clients's photo retouching. Plenty of configurations to get the perfect light-tone #### Cons It is rather limited compared to Photoshop --- ### i really like lightroom i use it and i recommend it - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Renato V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I consider it to be a complete image editing app due to its wide variety of tools in the field of color, lighting, cropping and more. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I really liked the automatic editing option, it makes editing photos much easier #### Cons the paid tools could have a preview in the paid version so that the user is interested in purchasing the complete package --- ### Pocket photo powerhouse - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Tabarak A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I can raise exposure, lower contrast, and test different colour profiles on my phone without long waits. Overall, that feels quite powerful for a mobile app. #### Cons For the desktop version, even on my strong PC, Lightroom Classic sometimes slows down when I change modules or start a large export. The face‑recognition tool is not always accurate; it often marks my cat as a person. --- ### The Photo Editing Software That Became a Standard - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Jacqueline C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It does what it says regardless of if you're a subscriber or not. it came with my creative cloud subscription so I tend to use it when I want to do some light editing. The app is far more superior than the desktop version. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros What I liked the most is the tools offered for editing and organizing images. Taking a decent image that may have turned out too dark and giving it a lighting adjustment is so easy to obtain. I also liked the option to use a screen reader. The interface is simple to navigate and easy to understand. #### Cons Since adobe moved to a subscription model lightroom is pricey considering the many alternatives that are out there. I don't like that it doesn't default to opening when I pop in an SD memory card. --- ### Excellent tool for new photographer - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Becca S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The pop up tutorials are very helpful for new editors. #### Cons Sometimes the application is slower than I'd like. #### Reasons for switching to Adobe Lightroom Movavi didn't have a lot of the tools I needed. --- ### A Image editing software everyone must use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Zwelibanzi K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. #### Reasons for switching to Adobe Lightroom I just felt like Lightroom had more to offer, I still feel that way. --- ### Adobe Lightroom, The Best Photo Editor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Prateek V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, Lightroom has become the core of my everyday operations, and it's the single software I rely on the most. The initial implementation was a bit rough due to the complexity of Lightroom's Professional Tools but now, it has become integral to my role. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lightroom has everything a Photo Editor can think of. From basic editing like manipulating brightness and contrast, to more advanced features like HSL Split Tone, Masking, Layers, and Tone Curves, Lightroom has it all in one place and is the benchmark product in its industry. #### Cons Starting up with Lightroom as a beginner is a bit steep and challenging. Lightroom has a vast palette of tools and features that appear overwhelming for a newbie but the learning and experimenting is actually fun. #### Reasons for switching to Adobe Lightroom GIMP wasn't simply good enough for making professional photographer-level edits. --- ### Lightroom 5 Stars - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joe G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have been using Lightroom for over 5 years. It is very user-friendly, easy to navigate, and helps you expand your creativity. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros If I had to pick only one feature, I would have to say the AI Generative Denoise feature. It gives you the ability to edit a photo a little more effortlessly while keeping the quality and maintaining low grain visibility. #### Cons Lightroom is amazing. I don't love the mobile app as much as editing from my desktop. Outside of that, Lightroom is fantastic! --- ### Largest lightroom - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ravi G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My experience is to good to use in daily work and doing project also #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like most about adobe lightroom You can always go back to the original or tweak previous adjustments. #### Cons I like least about adobe lightroom classic can be slow, especially when handling large catalogs or high-resolution RAW files. --- ### Great for a beginner - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nick O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Photography - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I've used it on and off in the past (the mobile version is fantastic). I might look at using Photoshop or something a little more technical at some point in the future, but for now, I really enjoy it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lightroom has been an easy start into editing photos for my new photography business. #### Cons It's quite intense on my hardware and slows everything down while using it. --- ### Great app and easy to use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jessica B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Furniture - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Easy to use, great for having presets to enhance the quality of your pictures and the ease at which you can change settings to get your desired look. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros How easy it is to use on my phone. I can crop and get the quality pictures I need and want with a few easy clicks. Then you just save to your phone and you are good to go! #### Cons The storage on the computer always seems to fill up fast. We need to be reminded to take them out of the program and save them in a separate file. --- ### LIghtroom at a Glimpse - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mark Oliver R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I learned how to use photoshop first starting on and used it for the longest time (years), when asked a photographer friend of mine before what i can use other than photoshop that is easier to use for multiple images, he showed me lightroom lightroom, just like photoshop, have been my bestfriend since discovering then way before I even graduated college. its a part of my personal and professional life now. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Lighroom is much more than an image editor, it helps to organize your images by importing or exporting and managing your images easily making you able to keep track of your edits and images, in short it's an editing software and an image managing tool combined into one. you dont have to need to worry about ruining your image while editing as the edits only appy to an exported image not the original. Fast and easy photo books, slide shows, and web galleries this is much easier to learn than photoshop. #### Cons if you are switching to lightroom because photoshop is clunky when it comes to editing multiple images at once, you might be in for a surprise coz lightroom doesnt support layering like photoshop has. Lightroom is made for photo enhancement so its image manipulation tools are limited unlike photoshop. --- ### the best image editor - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nathália M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered It is a complex application, mainly due to its many functions, which also makes it a very complete application for editing. In addition to exporting everything with great quality. I highly recommend it, if you have difficulties at first, persist until you understand each feature, it's worth it #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I wouldn't say that the application is easy to use, especially for those who are not familiar with image editing, myself, when I installed it, two years ago, I found it quite difficult and I looked for many videos on youtube that could help me. But once you get the hang of it, get more familiar with the tools, you won't want to edit anywhere else. I find the application very complete, with several functions, with the option of filters saved by the user, which make it very easy as well. One thing that might seem small, but I really like it and haven't seen it in similar apps, is the option to "zero" the edit I was doing quite easily. #### Cons it's been a while since, in the "mask" option you could select only the sky, or a "subject". I only managed to do this once! Every other time the app restarts and I lose everything I've edited. So, this function, which is not that new, doesn't work on my device, nor on my husband's device. --- ### Premium Image editing software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rahul R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I had a fantastic experience with the app as I do lots of image editing work and need professional-level tools to work on high-definition images. The app provides me a platform to create content and these contents are used for posters and online ads for my business. All thanks to adobe lightroom for giving me some pro-level image editing experience. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The best thing about the software is that it has premium-level image editing tools like masking and Image optimizer. One feature which I always use is the recommended presets that lightroom provides, they are so amazing that you won't need to do anything and lightroom will do all the work by recommending self-edited presets and trust me all of these presets will be worth exploring. #### Cons Everything is great about the software but the main problem is its price. It is a high-cost app if you buy it's premium and also the windows version is a little difficult to understand as it has lots of professional-level image editing tools and it will take a lot of time for a user to get comfortable with the software interface. --- ### No better batch photo editor out there! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sam C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Graphic Design - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Regarding my workflow, Adobe Lightroom has substantially improved photo categorization. I take images on a regular basis, so having them all in one spot is quite convenient. I can quickly locate a one-off old photo that I require, make a fast edit, re-export and tag it, and move on to my next task. This is useful when I'm using photographs from more than a year ago in current marketing materials. Overall, Lightroom is a must-have for those looking to improve everything about photography—especially workflow and aesthetic adjustments. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I like how Adobe Lightroom allows me to edit RAW files in a comprehensive manner. I can batch-edit RAW photographs more easily than I can with Photoshop. I appreciate being able to rapidly switch between presets and preview them. The simple keyboard shortcut that allows me to rapidly change between my altered photo and the original RAW shot is perhaps my favorite feature, allowing for easy comparisons when editing. #### Cons There aren't many things that Adobe Lightroom does poorly. Lightroom occasionally has long photo export times, which is the only drawback I can think of. For example, exporting a batch of 50 photographs can sometimes take up to an hour or more. It's not a major concern because I'll just be leaving my computer for a few minutes, but I'd like to see speedier photo exporting, or one that works better on computers with less RAM. --- ### Adobe Lightroom review by a Self taught photographer - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Babu S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My overall experience with Lightroom has been really good and I am already prescribing it among my friends and collegues. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Adobe Lightroom has an user friendly interface and it allows any beginner to use the software without any prior knowledge or specific training. Importing a file is easier, sharing the file is even more easy. we can also use another person's design from the cloud without having to pay for it #### Cons Unable to load images with huge size. Version control can be a little messy Can't edit layer by layer like how we do it in Photoshop --- ### It's a must - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Szabolcs S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I can successfully organize my pictures, i can retouch and perfect them with ease, I can go from desktop to mobile and pick up the work and continue - I like this the most. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros If you are a photographer, be that on a professional basis or a hobbyist, you can't expect to create awesome shots with the camera only. A good post-processing software is needed. Lightroom is the "industry standard", every other editor is compared against it, in the features, in organizing tools, sharing features, with Adobe family software integrations #### Cons It's a little annoying, that it needs a little too much resources, cpu and ram. I had to switch hardware because of this. The 20gb cloud space offered in the basic subscription is too little. --- ### Fabulous editing software in the market. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ansh R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Automotive - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience with adobe lightroom was amazing as I like image editing a lot. I have produced some of the premium-level edited photos just by working a few minutes on the software. All thanks to adobe for making my editing experience great and giving me results which directly helped my business social media pages to grow with better content. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The best thing about the software is that it works on Android devices which makes it more handy and efficient. The editing tools which lightroom has are extremely powerful and are capable of giving you the best results. There are real-time editing tools like masking and animations. The best thing I liked about the app was inbuilt presets recommendations which will give you premium results even without much efforts. #### Cons The premium of the app is a little costly which can be difficult to afford for newbies and it has a huge variety of editing tools so they will also need to take a professional course to understand working on this app. Some time app crashes by itself and shuts down without any reason. I think this is something in which adobe should work on by removing these small bugs for a better user experience. --- ### Why you need Lightroom if you are in the Media industry. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joyce M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Media Production - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Lightroom has improved my media business threefold. It allows me to be efficient with my time, therefore, providing my business with a better profit margin. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This software besides being affordable is reliable, user-friendly, and efficient. I prefer Lightroom over other editing software because it is easy to understand, learn and use all the different tools it offers. It has cut my post-processing time in half and allows me to do all the post-processing steps like importing, selecting, editing, exporting into many customizable formats and sharing through my other devices all in one place. I cannot live without this software. #### Cons The only feature I dont like it is: With one of the recent updates, the importing process now also makes a 2nd copy of the master file on your computer/hard drive therefore now having the original, a copy, plus the exported image for a total of 3 files for the same image taking up storage space. #### Reasons for switching to Adobe Lightroom Based on user friendliness. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/450542-Adobe-Photoshop-Lightroom/reviews/?page=2) --- Adobe Lightroom Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice