Lightroom Updated
Posted: Thu 19 Oct 2017, 08:44
The last major iteration of Lightroom was well over two years ago and an update has been overdue for a while. Adobe has just announced what it has been working on and it is going to be controversial. DPReview, no doubt with the other usual websites has a full overview, so I will simply summarise the main changes here.
https://www.dpreview.com/news/979335364 ... om-classic
The biggest change is that Lightroom is becoming a subscription only product. Lightroom 6 is the last version for which it is possible to purchase a perpetual licence. Adobe has only been supplying updates to Camera Raw for new cameras and that will cease at the end of the year. RIP Lightroom 6.
Lightroom CC, the subscription version of the Windows and Mac desktop software becomes Lightroom Classic CC. Adobe has been been reworking the code to improve performance, which many will welcome.
So far, so good for anyone who has committed to the former Lightroom CC. Now for the controversial bit. There is a new cloud based version, only available by subscription, which confusingly takes over the Lightroom CC moniker. Adobe has already been dipping its toes into those waters with Lightroom Mobile and this appears to be a development of that. The good news is that by being in the Cloud users' files will be available everywhere. The downside is the more images users upload, the greater the tie in to Adobe.
At present, the new Lightroom CC is not as fully featured as Lightroom Classic CC, but DPReview does not expect that to remain the case forever. The clue is in that Classic name. Lightroom CC is going to be the way forward and at some point Classic users are likely to be in a similar position as Lightroom 6 users are now. And that day might arrive sooner than you think.
https://www.dpreview.com/news/979335364 ... om-classic
The biggest change is that Lightroom is becoming a subscription only product. Lightroom 6 is the last version for which it is possible to purchase a perpetual licence. Adobe has only been supplying updates to Camera Raw for new cameras and that will cease at the end of the year. RIP Lightroom 6.
Lightroom CC, the subscription version of the Windows and Mac desktop software becomes Lightroom Classic CC. Adobe has been been reworking the code to improve performance, which many will welcome.
So far, so good for anyone who has committed to the former Lightroom CC. Now for the controversial bit. There is a new cloud based version, only available by subscription, which confusingly takes over the Lightroom CC moniker. Adobe has already been dipping its toes into those waters with Lightroom Mobile and this appears to be a development of that. The good news is that by being in the Cloud users' files will be available everywhere. The downside is the more images users upload, the greater the tie in to Adobe.
At present, the new Lightroom CC is not as fully featured as Lightroom Classic CC, but DPReview does not expect that to remain the case forever. The clue is in that Classic name. Lightroom CC is going to be the way forward and at some point Classic users are likely to be in a similar position as Lightroom 6 users are now. And that day might arrive sooner than you think.