You can start an edit on your phone while in the field and finish it from your computer at home without skipping a beat. The interface is unified (as much as can be) across desktop and mobile platforms, and just about everything - even your RAW files - are automatically backed up to the cloud and accessible from anywhere. The first thing to understand about Lightroom CC versus Lightroom Classic is that it presents an entirely new workflow paradigm. If you haven’t made the switch yet, it’s time to at least take a look. I finally decided to try making the switch again, and am pleased to report that I, too, haven’t looked back - even if, at times, I have to force myself not to. Disheartened, back to Classic I went - and that’s where I stayed for the next several months.įortunately, Adobe scrambled to bring new features to the app over that time, and Lightroom CC has grown into a competent photo editor. But while I instantly loved aspects of it, I quickly found it lacked features that were indispensable. Naturally, I downloaded the app as soon as I possibly could and started working in it that afternoon from my hotel room. If one of the most experienced Lightroom professionals on the planet had been living happily through buggy, pre-release versions of the new software for that long, then certainly it would work for me. Even Adobe’s Bryan O’Neil Hughes proudly proclaimed in his presentation that he had made the switch a year and half earlier, and hadn’t looked back. Why not just call it Lightroom Jurassic? Recycle its binary bones into fuel for software better adapted to the post-PC era. After all, it was the new app that took the Lightroom name the old version received a tailpiece that all but destined it for wherever legacy software goes to die. Lightroom CC, by comparison, looked modern and streamlined, with a renewed focus on the simple thing that gave it reason to exist at all: Your photographs.Īdobe continues to update Lightroom Classic, but there was a general feeling that day at MAX that the company was gently trying to corral users toward Lightroom CC. Sure, other photographers no doubt had uses for those other modules, but Lightroom Classic was foremost an image organization and editing tool - one that had grown fat and slow in its old age. The 5 biggest announcements we expect from Google I/O 2023 One of last year’s most luxurious smartwatches finally has Wear OS 3

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