Photolemur touts itself as a photo enhancer and automatic photo editor. You literally drag and drop your photos into the interface, and Photolemur does the rest. If you’re looking for a quick and dirty way to edit your photos so that they look better and more professional and you can’t or don’t want to use a more fully featured tool like Lightroom, I highly recommend Photolemur.
Before and After Photolemur
My use case for using Photolemur
We come home from family trips and events overloaded with photos— and most of them collect dust in the cloud. One of the biggest reasons for that? I keep putting off looking through and editing them, save a handful. As a result, many go unseen and forgotten.
Photolemur makes it super easy to enhance, review, and save a lot of pics all at once, which helps me get past the procrastination/perfection hurdle that as a mom, I just don’t have room for. I just want to enjoy looking at, sharing, and getting prints of my family photos!
Use cases when Photolemur might not be the right tool (at least not by itself)
Photolemur is not enough if you want to perform any of these more advanced techniques:
- Cloning and healing to remove unwanted objects and artifacts
- Selective or graduated edit application
- Granular tweaking using sliders, curves, etc.
You can enhance your photos, save them and be done with them— or you can leverage Photolemur with Adobe software. Photolemur installs as a plugin for both Lightroom and Photoshop, making it easy to incorporate the time-saving and effortless features into your existing workflow.
Considerations
- Photolemur costs $34.99 for a single device or $49.00 for up to 5 devices. Both Windows and Mac OS are supported. It’s also available as part of a monthly Setapp software suite subscription for Mac OS.
- Supported image formats include JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and even RAW! (Check here for camera compatibility for RAW image files.)
- As mentioned above, you can use Photolemur as a plugin for both Lightroom and Photoshop! That means you can use Photlemur’s nifty automatic within your normal Adobe workflow. After you’ve enhanced the image, it goes right back to Lightroom or Photoshop (whichever one you started with) so you can continue working on it.
- Plugin instructions
- Mac OS: Lightroom / Photoshop
- Caveat – I’m a Mac user, and as of today (July 28, 2018), I haven’t been able to successfully install the Photoshop plugin, and I’ll be reaching out to the Photolemur team for assistance. The Lightroom plugin installed just fine and works great!
- Windows: Lightroom / Photoshop
- Mac OS: Lightroom / Photoshop
- Plugin instructions
Additional thoughts
Not long ago, I participated in a brief beta testing program for the current (version 2.3) release of Photolemur. After submitting feedback, their team responded cheerfully within a business day. I didn’t expect a response to my feedback at all, so I appreciated the effort made to close the loop on my comments! Although I haven’t yet contacted their team for support, the beta testing experience leads me to believe that contacting them would be an easy, hassle-free experience.
Our overall verdict
I’ve been a Lightroom user for about a decade, and while this is far from a replacement, for quick, effortless photo editing, Photolemur is worth the $49.00 price tag. The automatically generated enhancements are incredibly convenient, and it’s a really great way to get through lots of family vacation photos in no time at all. That means fewer forgotten photos languishing on your hard drive! The plugin compatibility with Lightroom and Photoshop is icing on the cake, and we think this is a worthy app to install on your computer!
