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Giant software company that dominates the creative software industry. Adobe publishes not just Photoshop and Lightroom, but Premiere Pro and After Effects video editing software, InDesign page layout and Illustrator vector drawing software and a whole lot more as part of its Creative Cloud ecosystem.

Adobe Lightroom review (2025)

May 12, 2025 by Rod Lawton

Adobe Lightroom (2025)

Adobe Lightroom (2025) verdict: 4.1 stars Adobe Lightroom does something pretty amazing. It makes all your photos available to organize and edit anywhere, on any device. But this does come at a cost. One drawback is that you have to pay for Adobe’s Creative Cloud storage, which is now included in its subscription plans. Another is that this version of Lightroom is slicker and more streamlined than the original Lightroom Classic, but also sacrifices some organizational features.

Filed Under: ReviewsTagged With: Adobe, Lightroom (CC), Photography Plan (Adobe)

Is this a real photograph or a fake?

April 8, 2025 by Rod Lawton

Adobe Firefly AI generated image

It’s a fake. Good, isn’t it? The reason I know it’s a fake is because I made it myself using Adobe Firefly Generative AI. In fact the only creative input involved was how I worded my text prompt. The trouble is, when AI generated images get this good, how can we tell what’s real any more?

Filed Under: OpinionTagged With: Adobe

Adobe Lightroom: what is it, where do you get it, what does it cost in 2025?

March 2, 2025 by Life after Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom is not one program but three. You could easily call it an ecosystem. At heart, it’s a tool for both organizing your photos and editing them. So how do you get it, what does it cost, and which version do you need?

Filed Under: General, SidebarTagged With: Adobe, Lightroom (CC), Lightroom Classic, Lightroom mobile, Photography Plan (Adobe)

Adobe Lightroom Classic review 2023

December 4, 2023 by Life after Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom Classic

Verdict: 4.5 stars Lightroom Classic is the traditional, desktop-based version of Lightroom. Its editing tools are powerful and versatile, aided by new and steadily improving AI masking tools. Lightroom Classic continues to be the professional cataloguing and editing tool by which all others are judged, though it’s not always the best.

Filed Under: ReviewsTagged With: Adobe, Cataloguing software, Lightroom Classic, Organizing, Photography Plan (Adobe)

Lightroom vs Photoshop: which program should you use and when?

April 15, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Lightroom vs Photoshop, which is best? It’s not that simple, as anyone who uses them will know, because although there is some crossover (well, a lot of crossover), they have very different roles and very different strengths and weaknesses. One is not better than the other because it depends on what you want to do. […]

Filed Under: ReviewsTagged With: Adobe, Adobe Camera Raw, Bridge (Adobe), Cataloguing software, Lightroom (CC), Lightroom Classic, Organizing, Photography Plan (Adobe), Photoshop

Cataloguing software explained

March 29, 2022 by Life after Photoshop

Cataloguing software can organize your entire photo collection, but how does it work and what do you look for?

Filed Under: General, Photography explainedTagged With: Adobe, Bridge (Adobe), Capture One, Cataloguing software, Lightroom (CC), Lightroom Classic, Organizing

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