Lightroom

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “unfortunately i'm still pulling out my macbook for video editing and for lightroom”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-18

• “i have to break out my macbook for lightroom and premiere still”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “The last update of Lightroom classic runs so damn slow on my Mac mini (M4). Was super annoyed yesterday while working on some pictures.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “Lightroom's selection/masking tools are pretty good and for basic tasks it is fine”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “the requirement to learn Lightroom in advance just to understand the photography teacher is the real trap here”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

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

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “The AI features in Lightroom, for example, are very well received by photographers (myself included). Automatic subject, background, sky, body part masking, content-aware/generative fill and generative remove are genuinely helpful and time saving.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “I can get the 300 GBP it costs me to have Lightroom and Photoshop for one year, in an afternoon.”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-05-19

• “I'm paying $16/mo for Photoshop and Lightroom. I have to imagine that the majority of people who post to HN can afford $16/mo”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-05-18

• “Using Lightroom classic on the Pro is largely best done from the keyboard, but there are certain workflows where using the touchscreen or a stylus is much better than a touchpad. The fact that it's limited doesn't mean it isn't a good idea.”

  LUKEWARM · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-25

• “Even though I spend more money on the coffee than on Lightroom”

  MIXED · price · Hacker News · 2026-04-20

• “Lightroom is designed around editing lots of photos. It has tons of batch processing features and it's UI is designed to make it easy to edit lots of photos in minimal time”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-19

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

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-14

• “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”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-14

• “Lightroom lets you fine-adjust sliders by pressing shift so that instead of rotating an image by HUGE AMOUNTS BACK AND FORTH you can easily remove a 0.4% tilt without having to type in the numbers into an "angle" text input box like a savage. 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.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-14

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

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-14

• “I like how Lightroom simplifies a lot of the editing process”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-14

• “Lightroom doesn't even process IQ4 150 (RGB) files correctly either, there's in back calibration that is missing, resulting in a bunch of lower right corner amp glow(?)”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-24

• “regularly edit 36MP photos on a similarly specced device without slowdown in Lightroom”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-12

• “I have 15 years of lightroom databases over 100k photos so switching is hard”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-10

• “ex-heavy Lightroom user that has been very happy with their transition to C1”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-07

• “I paid the $120 a year for photoshop/lightroom because $120 is way less than 6hrs of my life”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-03-05

• “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. We are getting milked for every nickle and dime for no reason other than shareholder value.”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-03-05

• “Word, Excel, Lightroom, Garageband, MainStage etc work just fine. Youtube videos up to 1080p play without stuttering in Floorp. It's not quick, but it is useable.”

  LUKEWARM · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-04

• “Lightroom for iPad is quite capable but it requires some power.”

  LUKEWARM · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-02