Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Editor's Review

Bring out the best in your digital photographs with this must have multiplatform tool.

There are a lot of digital darkrooms and photo organizing apps out there with a number of different and overlapping features. If you serious about photography and want to take serious control of your shots, then you really need the right tool for the job. This is one of the reasons why I like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. It’s a multiplatform tool with the tools that professionals and prosumers need.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software helps you bring out the best in your photographs, whether you're perfecting one image, searching for ten, processing hundreds, or organizing thousands.  With it you can create incredible, moving images. One of the best things about it is that you can fearlessly experiment with state-of-the-art, nondestructive, editing tools. If you make a mistake, it's easy to revert to an unmodified image, or undo the changes. 

Lightroom allows you to easily manage all your images, and showcase your work in elegant print layouts, slide shows, and web galleries. You can also upload them to popular, online, photo-sharing sites.  It's easy to do all of this directly from within this one, fast, intuitive application.

If you're an advanced amateur or professional photographer, you need a wide range of tools to keep your digital projects creative and organized. Lightroom provides all your essentials in one intuitive package.  It has a wide range of new features and enhanced capabilities, including faster performance, new world-class noise reduction, lens correction, support for DSLR video files, a process to create easy-to-share slide show videos with music, and much more.

In some cases, light, or the lack of it, can create unwanted noise in your photos, even if you know what you're doing and you meter and light everything as well as you can.  With Lightroom, you can get just the look you want from every shot with state-of-the art image processing tools that let you easily alter contrast, tune color, convert to black-and-white, add grain, reduce noise, adjust sharpness, and more.  Tools of this quality are important, especially if you're going to go the extra mile and have the photos professionally printed.

Pro’s: Advanced filters and effects, easy to use tools to correct, enhance, organize and share

Con’s: EXPENSIVE, even for students and teachers

Conclusion: I love Adobe's photography tools. The CSx suite of tools offer a great deal of functionality for users that want to take their digital photography and images to the next level.  Adobe's biggest deterrent to getting their software on just about every desktop in the universe is their pricing structures.  The Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is outrageously expensive, and unless you're serious about digital photography or are a professional, their tools will be largely outside of your budget. However, if you can afford them, the tools are simply awesome and really provide users with a number of tools that can improve your pictures and photos.