Verdict: 4 stars Lightroom is Adobe’s bold vision of a cloud-based photo organizing and editing tool where all your images can be organised, edited and viewed anywhere on any device. For mobile users and content creators it’s a clever and effective proposition, but for regular photographers, while its editing tools now include AI masking, A lens Blur and the rest of Adobe’s latest Lightroom features, its restrictions, the closed nature of its editing ecosystem and its cost remain a major barrier.
Catalog (image organization)
This is a database file used by programs like Lightroom and Capture One to organize and search a large photo collection often spread across many different folders and locations. An image catalog typically contains image thumbnails and previews, a link the original image file, image metadata such as keywords, and any image adjustments applied.
Cataloguing software explained
Cataloguing software can organize your entire photo collection, but how does it work and what do you look for?