

Plus you’re likely to use a fair amount of the features that are currently in Lightroom Classic CC (3rd party plug-in support, Books, Publish Collections, etc.) then I would recommend sticking with what you’ve been using. Professional Working Photographers – If you make your living from photography (or you’re very serious about your craft) and you’re shooting hundreds of images a week (especially in Raw) for clients. Should I use Lightroom CC or Lightroom Classic CC?Īt this point it’s actually pretty easy for me to recommend a solution depending on where you are with your photography:

If I shoot into the Lightroom CC app on my iPhone or iPad (yes Android too) the full resolution JPEGs or Raw files get sync’d to the cloud and appear everywhere. If I import my DSLR raw images they get sync’d to the cloud. Now with the NEW Lightroom CC you get full resolution files sync’d and backed up to the cloud no matter where you import them from. If you import images into Lightroom Classic CC, you still have the ability to sync images, but what gets sync’d are smart previews and not the original full resolution JPEG and Raw files. Lightroom Classic CCDidn’t Lightroom (Classic) CC have the ability to sync my photos and have them everywhere? Not completely. This new desktop application now fits in the Lightroom CC family as a seamless way for photographers to have their images everywhere. Lightroom CC doing a search for “tree” and finding images that were never keyworded.OK then what is Lightroom CC? The existing version of Lightroom has been branded Lightroom Classic CC and there is a brand new built from the ground up application called Lightroom CC. The team has spent the last several months boosting the performance of Lightroom Classic CC, which is what we all wanted. It’s much faster in most areas than it was before. There is one change though besides the name.

First off if you were already using Lightroom CC the good news is that Lightroom Classic CC is the same product that you’ve invested time in to learn and have been using for years. Let me try to clear up some confusion I’ve seen out there. Wait, wasn’t there already a Lightroom CC? Yes. Last week during Adobe MAX, Adobe took the wraps off its new photography system: Lightroom CC.
