Adobe Lightroom for PC and Mac

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• By ddorrance

  3

  Warning No Red Eye Removal Tool In Version 4.1

  I purchased Lightroom about a month ago and I am new to using Lightroom. There is no Red Eye removal tool, this seems like a big omission for a software package oriented towards photography. I am trying to process some older photographs that were digitized and due to using the flash a lot back then, there are a lot of red eyes to remove. I was very surprised that this tools was not available since I have been using other tools for years that have this feature. It appears that Lightroom classic had this feature judging by the number of videos on the web that show how to do it. Too bad Adobe is forcing everyone to a subscription model so there is not a way to purchase the classic version. Other features are very nice. The auto setting for editing photos is good so that saves a lot of time. Also the Healing Tool is very nice for fixing dirt spots and other unwanted artifacts. I am still on the fence on whther I am going to keep this subscription so far I am very undecided on whether it is worth it for me.

  
  
• By bowbison

  2

  Just annoying

  I know I should have expected this from adobe but it is still really frustrating that there is a $10/month subscription, but I understand that adobe is a high end editing company. But, the even more annoying thing is that you have no idea that there is a subscription until you have downloaded the app, which took my WIFI an hour to do, and after making an account only then does it block the entire application from use and tell you that is is $9.99 a month to use. I do not understand what is so difficult about putting in the apps description "THERE IS A $9.99 MONTHLY FEE TO USE THIS SOFTWARE". they only say down at the very bottom that there is a OPTIONAL fee for "premium" that I cannot even see anything about in the software. I don't know if somehow there is something wrong with the application I got, but there is no functionality to the app except to purchase the subscription, and if somehow that qualifies as "optional" then I guess the app store is more lax about applications than I thought. If I could get a response to explain this i'd be grateful.

  
  
• By Medic8888

  3

  Not bad but need improvement

  Overall I would say this app has great potential to be a top market photo editing program. I only imported 3165 photos and it made the app EXTREMELY slow. I’m not sure if the amount that you import matters but it made the program very annoying to deal with. Also, when editing, some of the tools did not function for me as easily as the tutorials made them out to be. I’m not sure if it was total user error or the program glitching. Particularly when trying to use the paint tool, it just painted a red color everytime. I could not even fix the pictures as the tutorial indicated. Using the radial tool also proved difficult, as it would continually create an oval in the wrong places as well as making the same red color like the paint tool. It could be that I am using a Windows, but I’m not sure really. I have a 500gb SSD and 16gb of RAM, so this shouldn’t be a problem with the operation of the app. Hopefully these issues get corrected.

  
  
• By Elite Guard

  1

  Worse than Lightroom 3!

  I got a new camera but Lightroom 3 couldn't read the raw files from it. So after updating my OS in order to get Lightroom 4 I find that I can't even import my old light room library. Even worse new photos that I import automatically go to the cloud, not my hard drive which is where I want them! There is no way to change the setting either. It's a shame cause some of these new feateures sound great, but it's too much of a learning curve. Plus the connectivity to follow other useres is a complete waist of time and effort. I want to edit MY photos not veiw some one elses. I want MY Photos on MY hard drive, not in some stupid cloud where I loose them if I don't pay the ridiculous subscritpion! Whats worse is that it is impossible to cancel your plan, durring the free trial at least! Adobe's website redirects you to the app store which has no option to cancel it! Not worth the upgrade or effort. DO NOT BUY IF YOU WANT CONTROL OVER YOUR OWN PHOTOS!

  
  
• By Padre de dos

  4

  Lightroom Convert

  I mainly used Photoshop and Bridge for the last 10 years. I always thought Lightroom was a Photoshop Lite type of version. Since I got the whole creative cloud now and always hearing people talking about using Lightroom along with Photoshop I thought I would give it a try and I must say it has been great! The only reason I am giving it 4 stars instead of 5 is because about half of the time I edit photos in Photoshop from Lightroom then for some reason the photos don't come back to Lightroom and if I didn't save to the cloud in Photoshop then the time I spent on them was wasted and I have to redo them again!