You can get lots of different profiles and presets for Lightroom, but these pale in comparison to the scope and variety of the effects in other programs like the DxO Nik Collection, Exposure X6 or ON1 Photo RAW 2021. And to keep your images organized you need a tool like Lightroom to use alongside it.īut even this double-act doesn't provide a whole lot of creative inspiration. If you need to open a raw file it has to go through Adobe Camera Raw first, and that's not even the best raw processor out there. Despite its mighty reputation, Photoshop is just a photo editor.