Lightroom Photo & Video Editor 12+

The only Adobe product I use. Lightroom combined with 1tb or more of cloud storage is so good. Having access to my whole photo library dating back to 2000 on all my devices is just amazing. And with the editing capabilities LR has to offer, I could for example be sitting on bus editing a photo I took back in 2006 on my phone.

Most impressive of all is the search capability. I remember on one occasion when my son was 3, I was telling him about the papaya tree we used to have in the back yard. A quick search for ‘papaya tree’ in Lightroom, and within a few seconds all the photos I took of that tree years earlier were there for my son to see. No having to worry about tagging photos or scrolling through thousands of photos to find what you’re after.

I have just one major complaint. I have all my photos segmented into months. Now if I open a month’s worth 400 photos and scroll down through them, then minimise that month, instead of going back to that same month as it should, the scroll position will be on whatever month is the same distance down the page as the 400 photos I had open. For example, if open the month of January 2020 where I have 506 photos and scroll to the bottom of all 506. When I minimise those photos the scroll position will then be at December 2017. So I either have to scroll back to the top of that month’s photos before I minimise, or scroll all the way back there anyway. It’s very annoying! Please fix this Adobe.

I’ve been using this app for years now and I love it, favourite app by far! I get so many compliments on my photos and it’s thanks to this and the presets I have. I look like a pro! Get this app, learn how to use it, get some epic presets and you’ll never look back!

One tiny thing I’d love team LR, if you’d please change it back to how we used to load in the specific photos we wanted to edit in LR, rather than now, since an update, having all your photos from your library automatically populate in. It makes it so hard to find, organise and keep track of photos you want to edit. Especially if they weren’t recent. And it makes it a little slower too, probably because I have about 150,000 photos in my phone. Still the best app! But would love this to change back, or have the option of which one you want to do. 🙏🏽

I love this app,
But I just have to ask why, as I’m going through an album of edited photos (without editing them, only sometimes looking at the original) it is such an intensive task for my iPhone 14 pro Max, that it must dim my phone screen and heat it up? Looking through photos and doing some editing, for the power I have in my iPhone, should this task be so energy demanding that my incredibly powerful iPhone processor should need to cap itself at around 60-70 percent brightness?
Either there is a software problem, or my phone technologically speaking is just bogus. And I doubt the latter. This also occasionally happened on my iPhone 12Pro, but I thought it was just outdated. Now that I have the 14Pro, I’m pretty convinced it’s the software.

Now on my iPad Pro M2, I’d rate this app 5 stars. With hours of editing it would not struggle at all. But when I’m editing a few photos on the fly and don’t happen to have my iPad for larger workflows, I’d really love for my iPhone to be able to do more than just read the photos—and even then still struggle. It’s cooling down already as I write this! With the brightness this phone can offer—I’d love to be able to actually use it!