Review by Kendall L. Vaughan

You have got to be kidding me! Adobe has had multiple security breaches on their website which lost customer’s credit card data and now the only way that we can order updates is by giving Adobe our credit card data???? I don’t think so!! Adobe simply has too much competition in this area to continue to deal with them. Products like CaptureOne Pro and the new (free) Affinity Photo are becoming very popular alternatives to LR.

LR Mobile is basically a crippled version of the desktop so not much to get excited about there. Might as well get a laptop and use the much better Mac/Windows version if I need to go mobile and doing that won’t require any subscription service.

Update: Before I wrote this review I was told by THREE Adobe employees that Lightroom was not available for purchase by 3rd party stores. After writing this review a couple of commenters told me that you can order through PayPal on adobe.com. I am not sure what is going on. If the LR6 upgrade is available at 3rd party stores then why are MULTIPLE employees telling me it isn’t available from the 3rd party. Frankly I don’t even want to give Adobe my email address since you know you are going to get a million emails a day nagging you to move off LR6 and over to Creative Cloud just like how Adobe nags you with web banners when you browse the internet. No thank you.

If anyone needs the update to LR6 and doesn’t want to join CC type the following into Google: Here is the direct link to download/upgrade the standalone version of Adobe Lightroom 6