Lighroom without the cloud solution.

How about Adobe answering this question!!!

While Adobe sells subscription plans for single CC apps, Lightroom Classic does not appear to be one of the options.

Lightroom Classic is available in the Creative Cloud Photography plan(s). The Photography plan includes Photoshop, Lightroom CC (cloud), Lightroom  Classic (desktop), Portfolio, and Spark.

Variations (well 2) on the Photography plan exists, this involves how much cloud storage you want (us old salts could care less about)

As stated Adobe does not sell standalone or perpetual copy’s any longer.

Photoshop CC and Lightroom Classic do not require use of the cloud for storage. Normally they do not require connection to the internet for use, they do occasionally require connection to the internet to verify contract standing (payment).

Note that a key component of all this is the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop (ACCDA) (free) that is used to check for updates, license status, activation, cloud sync (part of) etc. How often that app needs to hand shake with Adobe to verify license status varies upon payment type (monthly, yearly, individual, company, etc), oh, and a grace period varies.

One odd issue involves the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop Application. It has a place where you are signed in. If you sign out, then disconnect from the internet, and then try to run LR, it might fail, if you just stay signed in, even though you are not on the internet, LR works, so just do not sign out even if you are not connected. Apparently LR is happy as long as ACCDA thinks it is signed in, and apparently Adobe prefers if you sign in via ACCDA as opposed to login via LR.

Oh, and while this has not happened for awhile, do nit trust ACCDA fir 100% accuracy on auto updates. File that under things happen.

Not an Adobe employee. extra bit about ACCDA thrown in, because it can become an issue.

Hi Kurt,

You can use Lightroom Classic an application without working or dealing with the cloud. Lightroom uploads images to cloud only if they are set to sync, you may pause the sync and keep using the catalog based application where you import, edit and export images locally.

Over the time we have evolved Lightroom for all type of users where they can choose to sync or not keep their images on cloud.

Also, you can use any of the Adobe apps in offline mode with a valid software license. The apps attempt to validate your software license every 30 days as you receive a reminder to reconnect to the Internet to validate your license.

Thanks,

Akash