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Inspiring
October 19, 2017
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P: Ability to sync Lightroom Classic keywords with the Lightroom Ecosystem

  • October 19, 2017
  • 375 replies
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Keywords do not sync correctly: When added on the mobile app (iOS), they do not appear in LR classic and not in LR Web (I deleted the new LR CC immediately, this version does not make sense to me).
Same problem into the other direction: Keywords from LR classic do not appear on the mobile app. 
Attention: At this stage the whole keywording within the iOS app should not be used!

375 replies

Participant
March 6, 2019
This is insane (and you’d be just as angry as I am if you had to deal with Adobe’s HORRIBLE customer service for the past 48 hours).

Why can I not, after loving and using Adobe products to support my photography workflows for more than two decades, have the needed functionality from Lightroom Classic and the ability to sync keywords back and forth between my Mac and iPad?

This needs to be rectified now. Like NOW, now.
Antoine HLMN
Inspiring
March 3, 2019
Exactly!
Participating Frequently
February 23, 2019
Sad keyword (from sensei)not accessible or automatically visible (like google photo for example). But I can understand. Everybody use sensei to add keyword and finally remove, making no more money earn for Adobe. 
I wonder if keyword can be recorded in file or xmp side file or if it is only in the data base of CC (because of no sync with classic etc limitation.. marketing... segmentation)
Participating Frequently
February 23, 2019
We need to put things in perspective. Evolution (?) is very marginal.
LR classic costs a whole 144€/year ti use a software we already own and add some HDR pano (great) and profiles. does it  worth this price to pay???
As usual we will ear from defendant : for this price you have PS (who cares if you don't use it) and CC.  But CC is far from usable (fast but weak or limited or marketed limitation).
Furthermore Mac and iOS version are far from aligned and for example does not synchronise signature
Antoine HLMN
Inspiring
February 23, 2019
Bottom line, I feel like they are keeping classic alive until CC cloud is mature enough to switch classic down. I don’t see any reason for them to keep developing 2 versions of LR forever.
That day will be without me 🙂
Califdan2
Inspiring
February 23, 2019
.... And, profiles are really part of ACR as well.
Antoine HLMN
Inspiring
February 22, 2019
There are updates, but many people feel like it’s “just to keep people happy”, not real updates. And the vast majority of them are in ACR and can easily be “recycled” in classic.

HDR Panos is great, but is not really new, just a process improvement.

Profiles is... ok... a way to apply presets before touching sliders...
robgendreau
Inspiring
February 22, 2019
Does not evolve? I disagree. Classic has had many changes and even new features recently, from the profile system changes to HDR panoramas to various little fixes and improvements.
john beardsworth
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 22, 2019
No, but it is correct. You can prove it by testing.
Participating Frequently
February 22, 2019
It is obvious Classic does not evolve and probably will not less and less. Ressources are not infinite , even for the creator of the monstrous adobe reader and flash and so on.

But the strange thing is Adobe (it is what I can read here) creating 2 category :
One with the old way using a desktop with a slow Classic and poor cloud functionality.
Second with a fast app for desktop and mobile (really a great piece of software) with no power functionality or no basic functionality (print, keyword,smart folder...).
But you are ready to use the powerful app at home or at office and want to use some cloud functionality we are said to not understand the way adobe create the 2 app’.
That is just crazy the 2 solutions does not communicate better (for example about creating folder /collection, keyword) to comply with people who need the best of the 2 world.

For apple / Mac / iPad users, the only chance I see in a near future to see our best wishes is to wait for the arm cpu MacBook and the marzipan project. We will have the best of the 2 worlds and probably some competitors to LR. Resulting in a rush at adobe office to listen to their customer.

Beg your pardon, English is not my mother tongue.