The new destkop app ditches the complicated Folders & Collections setup of Lightroom Classic in favour of a much simpler approach consisting simply of Albums, which can be organised in folders.

In Adobe’s words, it wanted to create an interface that was powerful but simple, with everything you need but nothing you don’t. The core tools are similar to Lighroom Classic’s, but the interface has had a major overhaul. The new Lightroom CC looks very different. You can add images to Albums and store Albums in folders, and that’s it. The organising tools in Lightroom CC are now very much simpler. If 1TB storage isn’t enough, Adobe says you can increase the amount, but at a cost of a further £9.98/$9.99 per 1TB per month. You can see a full breakdown of the new plans at the end of this review, but the bottom line is that this 1TB storage will cost in the region of £9.98/$9.99 per month extra, though your choice of plan can reduce this figure. Adobe has increased the number of different Photography Plans to three (four if you count new mobile-only plan), and introduced 1TB online storage into the mix. Lightroom CC vs Lightroom Classic: 13 things you need to knowĬlearly, if you’re going to store your image library online, you’re going to need a lot more storage space.So photographers now have a choice between the new Lightroom CC’s ‘cloud first’ storage approach, and the traditional ‘desktop first’ approach of Lightroom Classic.

The ‘old’ Lightroom CC will continue, but has been rebranded Lightroom Classic. Second, there is a new version of Lightroom where your images are stored online on Adobe’s own servers so that all your photos will be available everywhere, on all your devices, and at their full resolution.Ĭonfusingly, this new version of Lightroom will also be called Lightroom CC. First, new camera support and updates for Lightroom 6 will end at the end of 2017, so effectively, the subscription-free version of Lightroom is being withdrawn. Lightroom CC has been the version included in Adobe’s subscription based Photography Plan, while Lightroom 6 has been a standalone version you pay for just once.īut two things have happened. Until now, Lightroom has come in two versions. It can also process and edit raw images without any intermediate conversion process, just as if they were JPEG, TIFF or Photoshop files, with both global and localised adjustments. You can use it to catalog your entire image library and organise and search your photos in any way that suits you.

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