Top 866 Lightroom Keywords: Search Volume, CPC and Trends (October 2026)

Lightroom keywords are editing how-tos, presets, the mobile app, pricing and alternatives, plus the photography terms (white balance, temperature, exposure) people look up while editing. Photographers at every level search them; preset sellers and course makers are the advertisers.

The list holds 866 keywords with a combined 43,641,150 searches a month. The most searched are temperature (6,120,000), blacks (5,000,000), whites (4,090,000), creative cloud (2,240,000), image resizing (2,240,000), sign in (1,500,000), competitions (1,000,000), flags (1,000,000), highlights (1,000,000) and shadows (1,000,000).

Advertisers pay most for digital asset management ($13.13 a click), luminance ($4.59 a click), keyboard navigation ($3.91 a click), lightroom free trial ($3.60 a click) and culling photos ($3.42 a click). 10% of the keywords in the list cost $1 or more a click, which marks the commercial end of the niche.

Demand is steady through the year: across the list, the busiest and quietest months are within 1.2x of each other. The trend column shows each keyword's own twelve months.

Volumes are global monthly averages from Google; CPC is the top-of-page bid in US dollars; competition runs from 0 (few advertisers) to 1 (many). Last refreshed October 2026. For any other keyword, the free search volume checker gives the same numbers, and the Keywords Everywhere extension shows them inside Google as you search.

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No	Keyword	Search volume	CPC	Competition
1	temperature	6,120,000	$0.11	0.00
2	blacks	5,000,000	$0.12	0.01
3	whites	4,090,000	$0.21	0.00
4	creative cloud	2,240,000	$0.48	0.08
5	image resizing	2,240,000	$0.02	0.01
6	sign in	1,500,000	$0.53	0.00
7	competitions	1,000,000	$0.71	0.02
8	flags	1,000,000	$0.22	0.48
9	highlights	1,000,000	$0.01	0.05
10	shadows	1,000,000	$0.24	0.04
11	lightroom	823,000	$0.83	0.22
12	profiles	823,000	$0.16	0.01
13	adobe creative cloud	673,000	$0.79	0.37
14	collections	673,000	$0.09	0.03
15	folders	673,000	$0.01	0.48
16	panels	673,000	$0.14	0.21
17	resolution	673,000	$0.10	0.03
18	healing	550,000	$0.37	0.00
19	guides	450,000	$1.25	0.02
20	histogram	450,000	$0.21	0.00
21	psd	450,000	$0.27	0.63
22	watermarking	450,000	$0.09	0.01
23	clarity	368,000	$0.18	0.01
24	feather	368,000	$0.32	0.20
25	feathering	368,000	$0.32	0.20
26	photo editing	368,000	$0.08	0.21
27	ratings	368,000	$0.17	0.00
28	teeth whitening	368,000	$1.03	0.96
29	hue	301,000	$0.40	0.29
30	cloning	246,000	$0.02	0.01
31	contrast	246,000	$0.15	0.01
32	exposure	246,000	$0.19	0.00
33	high dynamic range	246,000	$0.02	0.02
34	keywords	246,000	$0.37	0.04
35	modules	246,000	$0.33	0.01
36	preferences	246,000	$0.19	0.01
37	adobe lightroom	201,000	$0.76	0.39
38	calibration	201,000	$0.53	0.02
39	tint	201,000	$1.00	0.61
40	troubleshooting	201,000	$0.10	0.00
41	jpeg	165,000	$0.08	0.06
42	navigator	165,000	$0.03	0.22
43	photo books	165,000	$1.70	1.00
44	redo	165,000	$0.64	0.01
45	saturation	165,000	$0.48	0.00
46	tiff	165,000	$0.26	0.06
47	color correction	135,000	$0.05	0.98
48	print services	135,000	$0.92	0.47
49	sdk	135,000	$0.08	0.03
50	slideshow templates	135,000	$0.29	0.14
51	snapshots	135,000	$0.23	0.01
52	aspect ratio	110,000	$0.07	0.01
53	aspect ratios	110,000	$0.07	0.01
54	remove photos	110,000	$0.08	0.04
55	undo	110,000	$1.76	0.02
56	color grading	90,500	$0.29	0.04
57	deactivation	90,500	$0.01	0.00
58	face recognition	90,500	$0.38	0.21
59	keyboard shortcuts	90,500	$0.15	0.19
60	photography tips	90,500	$0.04	0.02
61	tutorial videos	90,500	$0.43	0.01
62	vibrance	90,500	$0.54	0.27
63	video tutorials	90,500	$0.43	0.01
64	cheat sheets	74,000	$0.10	0.00
65	chromatic aberration	74,000	$0.44	0.00
66	geotagging	74,000	$0.01	0.14
67	lightroom presets	74,000	$0.54	0.48
68	masking	74,000	$0.07	0.20
69	presets	74,000	$0.54	0.23
70	auto sync	60,500	$0.03	0.10
71	before and after	60,500	$0.37	0.00
72	clear history	60,500	$0.03	0.01
73	filtering images	60,500	$0.22	0.16
74	free lightroom presets	60,500	$0.36	0.40
75	lightroom classic	60,500	$1.01	0.61
76	lightroom presets free	60,500	$0.36	0.40
77	photo merge	60,500	$0.16	0.07
78	image sizing	49,500	$0.02	0.04
79	luminance	49,500	$4.59	0.36
80	sign out	49,500	$1.23	0.01
81	tooltips	49,500	$0.27	0.02
82	wildlife photography	49,500	$0.35	0.07
83	background color	40,500	$0.01	0.02
84	data management	40,500	$0.77	0.14
85	digital photography	40,500	$0.49	0.37
86	early access	40,500	$0.47	0.01
87	glossy paper	40,500	$0.01	0.74
88	macro photography	40,500	$0.05	0.06
89	sharpening	40,500	$0.06	0.06
90	dng	33,100	$0.54	0.01
91	knowledge base	33,100	$2.88	0.17
92	map styles	33,100	$0.04	0.02
93	megapixels	33,100	$0.28	0.26
94	page numbers	33,100	$0.05	0.00
95	parametric curve	33,100	$0.00	0.00
96	wedding photography	33,100	$0.67	0.17
97	black and white photography	27,100	$0.42	0.29
98	face detection	27,100	$0.25	0.07
99	filmstrip	27,100	$0.19	0.05
100	lightroom mobile presets	27,100	$0.53	0.85
101	noise reduction	27,100	$0.05	0.13
102	psd files	27,100	$0.41	0.02
103	system requirements	27,100	$0.68	0.00
104	template editor	27,100	$0.19	0.07
105	color space	22,200	$1.67	0.02
106	color spaces	22,200	$1.67	0.02
107	light painting	22,200	$0.15	0.10
108	lightroom online	22,200	$0.76	0.16
109	srgb	22,200	$0.24	0.01
110	adobe id	18,100	$0.41	0.14
111	auto import	18,100	$0.20	0.26
112	camera raw	18,100	$0.83	0.08
113	gps tagging	18,100	$0.04	1.00
114	live view	18,100	$0.10	0.03
115	release notes	18,100	$1.64	0.02
116	adobe support	14,800	$0.00	0.00
117	cloud backup	14,800	$0.37	0.46
118	cloud backups	14,800	$0.37	0.46
119	exif data	14,800	$0.00	0.02
120	external drives	14,800	$0.11	1.00
121	file formats	14,800	$0.33	0.01
122	fine art printing	14,800	$0.74	1.00
123	flow control	14,800	$0.79	0.18
124	lightroom alternatives	14,800	$1.14	0.52
125	lightroom mobile	14,800	$0.15	0.22
126	print to pdf	14,800	$0.12	0.13
127	raw files	14,800	$0.12	0.01
128	reference photo	14,800	$0.23	0.00
129	system info	14,800	$0.24	0.00
130	user guides	14,800	$0.72	0.03
131	white balance	14,800	$0.06	0.03
132	book templates	12,100	$0.71	0.23
133	dynamic range	12,100	$0.00	0.00
134	lightroom web	12,100	$1.12	0.10
135	map view	12,100	$0.08	0.01
136	matte paper	12,100	$0.19	0.39
137	smart collections	12,100	$0.05	0.23
138	voice control	12,100	$0.01	0.05
139	cloud sync	9,900	$0.92	0.23
140	cloud syncing	9,900	$0.92	0.23
141	contact sheet	9,900	$0.66	0.01
142	contact sheets	9,900	$0.66	0.01
143	date formats	9,900	$1.10	0.00
144	digital asset management	9,900	$13.13	0.45
145	language settings	9,900	$0.15	0.00
146	lightroom presets download	9,900	$0.22	0.21
147	monitor calibration	9,900	$0.21	0.25
148	password recovery	9,900	$0.58	0.02
149	event photography	8,100	$1.27	0.17
150	file naming	8,100	$0.00	0.00
151	icc profiles	8,100	$0.51	0.01
152	lightroom pricing	8,100	$0.86	0.76
153	night photography	8,100	$0.03	0.01
154	photo contests	8,100	$0.23	0.15
155	windows support	8,100	$1.22	0.05
156	black and white conversion	6,600	$0.22	0.01
157	color masking	6,600	$0.08	1.00
158	crop tool	6,600	$0.13	0.11
159	focus stacking	6,600	$0.06	0.02
160	grid overlay	6,600	$0.26	0.01
161	keyboard navigation	6,600	$3.91	0.00
162	lightroom vs lightroom classic	6,600	$0.31	0.11
163	lightroom vs photoshop	6,600	$0.04	0.24
164	password protection	6,600	$1.35	0.12
165	performance tuning	6,600	$0.45	0.24
166	slideshow creation	6,600	$0.77	0.57
167	track logs	6,600	$0.33	0.03
168	vignetting	6,600	$0.00	0.00
169	beta programs	5,400	$1.12	0.00
170	edge masking	5,400	$0.00	0.00
171	edit in photoshop	5,400	$0.10	0.14
172	email photos	5,400	$0.16	0.00
173	eraser tool	5,400	$0.09	0.09
174	network storage	5,400	$0.18	1.00
175	new features	5,400	$0.30	0.01
176	print settings	5,400	$1.00	0.06
177	print templates	5,400	$0.42	0.03
178	printer settings	5,400	$1.00	0.06
179	selective color	5,400	$0.27	0.02
180	time formats	5,400	$0.00	0.00
181	version history	5,400	$0.00	0.00
182	version updates	5,400	$0.01	0.03
183	adobe rgb	4,400	$2.66	0.03
184	book layouts	4,400	$0.99	0.10
185	community forums	4,400	$2.44	0.04
186	cylindrical projection	4,400	$0.00	0.15
187	dng conversion	4,400	$0.17	0.04
188	edge detection	4,400	$0.73	0.00
189	file handling	4,400	$0.24	0.45
190	grain effect	4,400	$0.40	0.01
191	grid view	4,400	$0.00	0.00
192	lightroom cc	4,400	$1.16	0.46
193	lightroom creative cloud	4,400	$1.16	0.46
194	lightroom subscription	4,400	$1.22	0.77
195	pdf export	4,400	$0.06	0.22
196	photo organization	4,400	$0.29	0.99
197	plugin manager	4,400	$2.99	0.00
198	shared albums	4,400	$0.96	0.04
199	watermark design	4,400	$0.25	0.07
200	brush feather	3,600	$0.01	0.62
201	color profiles	3,600	$0.32	0.02
202	composition techniques	3,600	$0.08	0.01
203	dehaze	3,600	$0.51	0.01
204	dodge and burn	3,600	$0.71	0.02
205	exposure adjustment	3,600	$0.22	0.01
206	file renaming	3,600	$0.11	0.01
207	lightroom editing	3,600	$0.77	0.26
208	multiple exposures	3,600	$0.00	0.00
209	page setup	3,600	$0.00	0.00
210	text overlays	3,600	$0.29	0.00
211	trial version	3,600	$2.41	0.00
212	xmp files	3,600	$0.00	0.00
213	camera calibration	2,900	$0.67	0.02
214	diagnostic reports	2,900	$0.36	0.01
215	gpu acceleration	2,900	$0.65	0.05
216	graduated filter	2,900	$0.19	1.00
217	graduated filters	2,900	$0.19	1.00
218	lightroom color grading	2,900	$0.31	0.08
219	lightroom for ipad	2,900	$0.84	0.19
220	lightroom updates	2,900	$1.06	0.06
221	lightroom vs darktable	2,900	$0.58	0.03
222	macos support	2,900	$0.83	0.03
223	margins and gutters	2,900	$0.00	0.00
224	organizational strategies	2,900	$1.00	0.06
225	people tagging	2,900	$0.00	0.00
226	perspective projection	2,900	$0.00	0.00
227	print layouts	2,900	$0.37	0.02
228	reverse geocoding	2,900	$0.50	0.07
229	stacking photos	2,900	$0.37	0.04
230	tone mapping	2,900	$0.00	0.00
231	watermark editor	2,900	$0.05	0.04
232	color labels	2,400	$0.56	1.00
233	color range	2,400	$0.99	0.41
234	file naming conventions	2,400	$2.01	0.01
235	flip horizontal	2,400	$0.19	0.01
236	keyword suggestions	2,400	$0.79	0.14
237	lightroom free trial	2,400	$3.60	0.31
238	lightroom keyboard shortcuts	2,400	$0.27	0.02
239	lightroom shortcuts	2,400	$0.27	0.02
240	mobile editing	2,400	$0.07	0.03
241	online sharing	2,400	$0.31	0.07
242	smart objects	2,400	$0.30	0.02
243	sync errors	2,400	$0.00	0.00
244	auto crop	1,900	$0.21	0.07
245	book settings	1,900	$0.82	0.00
246	color management	1,900	$0.46	0.02
247	culling photos	1,900	$3.42	0.22
248	custom profiles	1,900	$0.38	0.05
249	device syncing	1,900	$0.48	0.01
250	dpi settings	1,900	$0.00	0.00
251	lightroom filters	1,900	$0.55	0.69
252	lightroom masking	1,900	$0.19	0.02
253	lightroom tutorials	1,900	$0.45	0.15
254	memory usage	1,900	$0.00	0.00
255	portfolio reviews	1,900	$0.53	0.15
256	postprocessing	1,900	$0.50	0.02
257	private galleries	1,900	$0.01	0.16
258	sample files	1,900	$0.00	0.00
259	saved locations	1,900	$0.01	0.01
260	screen modes	1,900	$0.00	0.00
261	storage management	1,900	$0.52	0.13
262	batch rename	1,600	$0.31	0.02
263	book module	1,600	$0.00	0.02
264	brush masks	1,600	$0.17	0.94
265	brush size	1,600	$0.36	0.65
266	camera info	1,600	$0.12	0.15
267	camera profiles	1,600	$0.00	0.04
268	exposure bracketing	1,600	$0.00	0.00
269	file settings	1,600	$0.00	0.02
270	fullscreen mode	1,600	$0.00	0.00
271	high contrast mode	1,600	$0.00	0.00
272	image stacking	1,600	$0.36	0.02
273	import photos	1,600	$0.64	0.05
274	keyword tagging	1,600	$0.33	0.01
275	lightroom focus stacking	1,600	$0.63	0.02
276	lightroom for android	1,600	$0.50	0.11
277	lightroom for iphone	1,600	$0.43	0.09
278	lightroom import presets	1,600	$0.03	0.07
279	migration tools	1,600	$1.15	0.15
280	missing files	1,600	$0.18	0.01
281	missing photos	1,600	$0.02	0.03
282	model releases	1,600	$0.92	0.04
283	performance issues	1,600	$0.00	0.00
284	photography plan	1,600	$1.10	0.33
285	sky selection	1,600	$0.87	0.07
286	smart filters	1,600	$0.68	0.52
287	subject selection	1,600	$0.30	0.02
288	supported cameras	1,600	$0.15	1.00
289	synchronize folder	1,600	$0.92	0.08
290	text search	1,600	$0.70	0.04
291	video support	1,600	$0.01	0.06
292	zoom tool	1,600	$0.30	0.09
293	android support	1,300	$1.26	0.02
294	batch editing	1,300	$0.60	0.12
295	dcp files	1,300	$1.38	0.03
296	face tagging	1,300	$0.03	0.13
297	gps data	1,300	$0.06	0.03
298	gradient masks	1,300	$0.00	0.00
299	hardware requirements	1,300	$0.00	0.00
300	ios support	1,300	$0.41	0.01