Lightroom Photo Editor 12+

Great, but wish I could put it on my laptop

Absolutely love this app it’s amazing such a good tool for photography. I do wish however though I could access it from my laptop as I only have login from my phone and the app wants me to charge again when I’ve already paid for a full years subscription, apart from that really really good to use, and to be honest, I wouldn’t use anything else Photoshop and the rest of them out the water it’s really easy to use even on a phone version like I said I just wish I could have it on my computer on a bigger screen as it would make my life so much easier when it comes to editing.
Do you have it on a computer? It’s just the fact you cannot transfer and sign in as the same person if you’ve already paid for it on your phone so you have to then pay for another subscription again which I do think is rather cheeky.

Latest update has caused some big issues!

I have always loved this app. It’s incredibly powerful and I’ve always used it as part of my photography editing workflow, however… I’ve just updated it and it has caused some serious issues! Firstly, the whole app just feels slower & more laggy. It takes longer to upload photos to the app and A LOT longer to render and save images. Previously a render & save for a large dimension 100% quality jpeg would take less than 10 seconds and that’s with numerous masks added and adjustments made across the board. Now it takes just over 5 minutes to do the same! I tried it a few times and the same thing every time! 5 minutes for a single photo is crazy, especially when it used to be lovely & quick. Secondly, the new blur feature just crashes the app. As soon as I touch the blur function the whole up freezes and I have no option to force close the app & reopen. This isn’t a huge issue for me as I probably won’t use it much but still needs to be resolved. Lastly, I’m not a fan of the new layout, but that’s my personal opinion and probably something I’ll get used to. I hope these issues are fixed quickly, especially the speed issue, because that could be a deal breaker for me and I’ll have no choice but to use another app.

Developer Response ,

Hello! We acknowledge your concerns regarding the recent update causing performance issues. Our team is currently investigating this matter to improve your editing experience. Your feedback is valuable to us, and we encourage you to share it on forums.adobe.com for further assistance. Thank you. ^rc

Let down by common sense.

There needs to be a thorough rethink in lots of areas of this app. For a start don’t advertise a new feature (lightroom now added to shortcuts) if it doesn’t work! I’ve tried to make a shortcut on both my iPhone and my iPad Pro; each time greeted with: ‘could not run import to Lightroom. An unknown error occurred’.
I use shortcuts regularly so I’m confident in my own handling of it.
Another thing which boggles my mind out of all sense is inability to export DNG to a lossless format from the app. If I want a png or tiff I have to do it on my desktop and airdrop it to my iPad. It’s totally retarded. This needs to change entirely before photoshop is released (if ever) as NO ONE will be prepared to spend hours editing a lossy jpg on their iPad photoshop when they could be doing lossless on desktop.
If I had to characterise the faults of Adobe with one sentence it would have to be: too slow to adapt. You need to seriously realise people are moving to mobile platforms; my 2018 iPad Pro has power that is going wasted because companies like this are dragging their heels and maintaining a desktop only environment.
I hope when photoshop is released these issues have been resolved, I hope this won’t be a token app with no thought behind it, after all affinity photo is pretty much perfect right now, so adobe won’t be able to coast on this.

Developer Response ,

We're sorry you've experienced trouble with the shortcut. At this time, we're not able to reproduce the issue so it'd be great if you could reach out to our support team so we can try to troubleshoot. Drop us a line at lrmobile-feedback@adobe.com.

We are working on adding in more export options, including lossless export in a coming release.

We do appreciate the feedback and are constantly at work to make the app better and better. /jh