P: Add Color Labels

You’re welcome 😉
I can’t help you with your decision, since both have advantages and disadvantages. I’m sure there are other threads treating of this. If you don’t need any sync and mobile functions and don’t like the subscription based model, there are now very good,  alternatives to LR with excellent migration tools. To bear in mind 😉 

Dear Antoine-
Thank you soooo much for your words and expertise, can't tell you how much i appreciate it. 

I was thinking Classic CC might be good for me because instead of using cloud I have a series of NAS drives for storage- hmm interesting to know about the shift in development focus...

(Thanks again so much x)

1) Lightroom desktop, here, is the new “cloudy” version of Lightroom, not Classic. Both are desktop app, but Lightroom is a cloud based app, whereas Lightroom Classic is a desktop-centric app withe limited (crippled) cloud functions. There’s a pinned post about the naming.

2) Yes! You can upgrade your catalog from LR 5 to Classic as this is successor without any loss. But be extremely careful: whatever upgrade you’d choose (The new Classic, version 9.x or “cloudy”), you’ll rent the software and not own it. (Monthly pas instead of one time purchase).Lastly, Adobe won’t agree, but many people feel the development focus has shifted away from Classic. Just so you’d know.

dear Rikk, thanks for your comment, but I am left confused by it. Lightroom Classic is desktop focussed, no?!  Could you please explain?

(copied from adobe: https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom-classic/lightroom-cc-vs-lightroom-classic.html 
Lightroom is the new cloud-based photo service that works across desktop, mobile, and web. Lightroom Classic is the desktop-focused digital photography product. )


.. so Rikk, 
1. what do you mean by 'Lightroom Desktop does not as the Ecosystem clients do not have labels'  
2. does existing hard work/labelling/edits transfer across from Lightroom 5 to CLassic CC with the thousssssands of images/years of work i could not bear to lose?

thanks for your time 😉

Hi Rikk hope you get the point that an essential feature is missing in cc called color labels. Or is that so complicated to develop ? Joke. Adobe wake up and code that which takes a bunch of hours.

Lightroom Classic has always had labels.  Lightroom Desktop does not as the Ecosystem clients do not have labels (Desktop, Mobile and Web). If you upgrade from your Lightroom 5 to Classic 9.2, the same labels are there. 

same here. I want to merge Lightroom 5 to Classic CC and cannot afford to loose colour labels- has this been resolved?

It's also on my wishlist since the beginning.

Functionality as in lightroom classic, ability to color label photos. This is part of my workflow in order to quickly know which photos still need to be edited. 

Same here. Please add Color Label support in Lightroom CC. This request is asked for about 2 years ago. I ́m wondering, if it ́s really such a big job to implement it?