Adobe Lightroom

“All the things you mentioned are applicable to Adobe (!) as well. Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere..”

“without any of the most basic colour profiles and adjustments that Lightroom applies”

“Library management is where Lightroom (and honestly CaptureOne) still wins”

“Being able to organize and move around your library is a core feature.”

“I don't think the UX of LR and Photoshop is particularly good, especially in recent years.”

“the AI stuff like masking in the latest Lightroom versions is crazy good”

“Lightroom's selection/masking tools are pretty good and for basic tasks it is fine, but the masking workflow is (IMHO) fundamentally limited”

“Lightroom courses will brainwash you that AI "select subject, select sky, select object" workflow is the only modern way”

“Lightroom mobile (only) is pretty cheap (still a subscription obviously) and does RAW. Depending on your workflow and device its not bad.”

“as a total package Lightroom always came out on top for me. The AI masking is a huge improvement.”

“I on an aging Lightroom version and wouldn't mind something that works well on Linux”

“The AI features in Lightroom, for example, are very well received by photographers”

“I don't want to use Lightroom through x86 emulation, I want Apple to bitch slap Adobe into porting it to native”

“I can get the 300 GBP it costs me to have Lightroom and Photoshop for one year”

“I can't even tell which buttons are supposed to be clickable and which are disabled/grayed out.”

“Adobe's seems to have a good balance for still looking relatively natural and not trying too hard to generate missing detail.”

“if you bought Pro today it'd work with all current gen cameras from the major manufacturers, and probably get updates for a couple of years”

“Lightroom is designed around editing lots of photos. It has tons of batch processing features”

“LR's editing has made huge strides on top of something that was already top notch.”

“Lightroom is still a great package. The alternatives are either way less powerful”

“I'm a hobbyist, and the new "AI" masking has saved me a lot of time during my edits.”

“I have no idea wtf it lags when I open and close panels on a pretty hefty desktop”

“have given Adobe thousands of dollars over the past decade just to keep using Lightroom or Photoshop”

“its photo editing features (it's primary mission) still exceed the capabilities of its competitors”

“It's a tough time to charge a subscription for something that's getting actively commoditized.”

“Lightroom has very good support for previews, decoupling the library metadata from the physical media”

“I can’t think of a time where I’ve been unable to achieve my color goals in still photography with PS’s or Lightroom’s tools.”

“Lightroom's crop and rotate controls do a "constrained crop" by default so that you don't get black wedges in the corners of the image”

“with the new AI denoise, it seemed even harder to move away from it”

“This is my last year giving them money after all dark patterns they use so you pay / don't leave.”

“Meanwhile Lightroom can export 16-bit PNGs, wide-gamut, true HDR, HDR gain maps, JPEG XL, etc, etc.”

“I like how Lightroom simplifies a lot of the editing process. I swear it gets slower and slower with every update.”

“One thing that LR does well is leverage Adobe Camera Raw and its great support for many raw formats.”

“only this time I didn't have the choice to buy a new standalone version, I had to subscribe”

“For about the price of 1/year subscription, I could have purchased a fixed version of Lightroom with support for my camera and not had to buy it again for another 10 years.”

“Even lightroom you are just using the algorithm they decided for you already with parameters they decided are fine.”

“there really aren't that many great commercial alternatives to Lightroom that don't also have a subscription model”

“some things better than Windows (such as Lightroom and PS which don't run at all on Linux)”

“downloads the entire of your library locally, with all pictures, all edits, everything”

“I've seen Adobe trying gentler methods to point out new features in Lightroom, such as a filter that can automatically weed out photos where people have their eyes closed”