Lr is simple, no frills, just imports the photos you select, lets you apply a preset if you want and organizes them into albums. You’ll notice immediately that the import screens set the stage for many of the differences – LrC allows you to apply presets and add metadata, keywords, add to collections, change the destination, and more. If you go into your CreativeCloud account, you’ll see these three options: you want Lightroom Classic. If you have the Photography Plan, Lr is the “default” to download. So, what’s the difference? (for simplicity, I’m going to just mimic the app icons, and call them LrC – for Lightroom Classic CC, and Lr – for Lightroom). For a professional/aspiring photographer, you’ll want the full capability of the Photography suite, and specifically, Lightroom Classic CC.Īll of our trainings/brushes/presets are intended for Lightroom Classic CC users. For a casual user, just the cloud version of Lightroom might be totally fine. Both plans are the same price (as of the publication of this post – obviously we don’t control Adobe’s pricing structure now or in the future).

When you first sign up, you can subscribe to either the Lightroom Plan (Lightroom, plus 1tb of cloud storage), or the Photography Plan (Lightroom, Lightroom Classic CC, Photoshop, plus 20gb of cloud storage). The newer product has since just been renamed to Lightroom. The original Lightroom product was renamed Lightroom Classic CC. Back in ~2017, Adobe introduced a new product, called Lightroom CC (for Creative Cloud), designed to be a cloud-based “ecosystem of apps” that works across desktop/mobile/web. Most common answer – you need the other version of Lightroom.įor those who have been around for a while, Lightroom has long been a desktop-based photo editing/organizing solution. The most common support questions we get are from students who are either enrolled in Embracing the Storm, or who see one of Twyla’s videos where she does an edit, and can’t get their brushes to work, can’t figure out how to install presets/plugins that are mentioned, or can’t find the modules they see on the screen. Lightroom vs Lightroom CC vs Lightroom Classic… what’s up?

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