Comments on: 12 Best Adobe Lightroom Alternatives in 2023 [User Tested]

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 21:00:55 +0000

In reply to Lawrence Mannato. What issue are you having exactly?

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 21:00:18 +0000

In reply to Lawrence Mannato. Hey Lawrence - Luminar Neo should be enough to start with, but if you find yourself juggling photos in multiple locations, Mylio Photos can be a great way to bring them all together.

By: Lawrence Mannato

Lawrence Mannato — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:45:25 +0000

Hi Mark

I abandoned Adobe Photo Shop several years ago and purchased Affinity Photo. I now am looking to replace Lightroom with a comparable program with photo storage and management…….a “library”. Is Skylum Luminar Neo all I need or do I need also Mylio Photos? Please advise me.

Thank you.

Lawrence Mannato

By: Lawrence Mannato

Lawrence Mannato — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:34:18 +0000

I am unable to connect from your web page to the Luminar Neo.

By: Mark Condon

Mark Condon — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:35:58 +0000

In reply to Vedran. Thanks for the kind words, Vedran! Let me know how you go with Exposure X7 - it's a great piece of software.

By: Vedran

Vedran — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:48:09 +0000

Woah Mark, thank you for a wonderful and detailed review. I’ve been a LR user since 2007 so now Im trying to find a replacement for it. From my analysis I’ll first try out Exposure X7 (the newest at the moment of writing). Thinking this might be the best for catalog management, batch processing and raw editing. Thanks once again and its great site you got running here.

By: Mark Condon

Mark Condon — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 18:47:37 +0000

In reply to Petri V. Thanks for the feedback - yes, hopefully Neo works better on your computer.

By: Petri V

Petri V — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 07:42:10 +0000

Hi Mark,

Tried the Luminar AI this winter holiday season since couldn’t have Luminar 4 anymore but it was very very slow and lagging on my Dell Latitude 5400 with 16 GB RAM and Intel i7 laptop. Managed to tweak it a little bit as setting app as high performance and increasing page file size but still too slow and unresponsive for my usage. I hope that the new Luminar Neo will sort these performance issues (on Windows 10 at least).

I’m a long time LR (v1 to v6) user but now there’s only monthly subscription plans and I can’t no longer even download LR. I absolutely loved the Luminar AI approach and think it is something I would like to have. I’m also evaluating darktable but the learning curve is very very deep there :(. Now I’m about check some others, so thank you for great article.

By: John Harcourt

John Harcourt — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 01:26:50 +0000

Have you reviewed Corel’s AfterShot? I’ve been using it for several years and have found it very capable. I’m curious if you’ve had an opportunity to give it a whirl.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 19:29:18 +0000

In reply to Steve.

Affinity Photo is a fantastic Photoshop type app. this article was about Lightroom alternatives… It would be awesome if Serif got into the Lightroom type apps…

By: Brandon H

Brandon H — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 01:45:05 +0000

In reply to Mark Condon. Thanks for a great article and comment ;)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:30:24 +0000

Very interesting article…. I have been using Adobe products since around 1998 at college and university, then in work (Web Production), and since 2015 I subscribed to the CC mainly for my photography hobby.
This last week, my Lightroom came up with a message saying “Can’t connect to Adobe server”, and after a few attempts, all my Adobe products have been locked and I’m unable to use them.
Apparently they have changed their server so that it no longer lets Windows 7 machines access it.
The thing is, I have six to seven years worth of photos and edits stuck in software that worked perfectly well – in fact ten times better than it ever did on my Windows 10 laptop – and just because of this change I cannot use the software that I am paying a monthly fee for!
Adobe tried to get me to update my operating system from Win 7 to Win 10 but that is not something I really want to get into, especially with my experience of a laptop that runs like a three legged dog.
I think I’ll have a look at some of the trial versions on here.
I already downloaded Affinity Photo as a possible Photoshop alternative – it’s a pity they don’t have the LR alternative to accompany it yet.

By: Mark Condon

Mark Condon — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 23:54:25 +0000

In reply to Steve. No, I haven't been there yet, Steve! Looking forward to one day though ;-)

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:22:44 +0000

For crying out loud; a huge great article about alternatives to Lightroom, paid and free, and you don’t mention Affinity Photo?

Have you been on Mars?

By: Mark Condon

Mark Condon — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 02:25:28 +0000

In reply to M. From my own experience, these included software programs are usually rather basic and not very user friendly.