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March 9, 2020
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upgrading from 6.14 - maybe

  • March 9, 2020
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Howdy!

 

I’ve been hesitating to upgrade Lightroom from 6.14 on my iMac, but feel there’s been too many additions and updates to the software to not take advantage, or perhaps jump to a different platform entirely. One major advantage to how my setup is working for me is the fact that the app resides on the computer, and both my wife and myself use separate ‘users’ on the iMac, allowed each of us to have our own settings, libraries, etc, without any interference, and only one license. Neither of us are ‘power users’, and are using Lightroom to edit our personal photos, for the most part. 

 

Neither of us us have any interest whatsoever in mobile features, or cloud-based features. Just want to be able to edit photos. Will a single license for Adobe products allow both our iMac users to use the app the way we’re using Lightroom 6.14 now?

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    GoldingD
    Legend
    March 10, 2020

    One thing to understand. Adobe has really reley fouled up in marketing. The marketing staff has renamed the various Lightroom products to the anger of everyone.

     

    So, be aware

     

    Lightroom Classic is the natural progression from your Lightroom v6.14. Current version is v9.2

     

    Lightroom, is a flavor of the app that while it runs on your desktop, it stores photos on the cloud

     

    Lightroom is far less capable than Lightroom Classic.

     

    When you consider the plans Adobe offers for the subscription model, the Lightroom Plan only provides Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic. It comes with 1 TB of cloud storage.

     

    Adobe does not offer a plan with just Lightroom Classic

     

    Adobe offers the Photography Plan, this plan includes Photoshop, Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, it comes with either 20 GB of cloud storage or 1 TB of cloud storage.

     

    You probably want the 20GB version.

     

    note, both the LR plan and the Photography plan also include Brudge, and some misc apps.

     

    Known Participant
    March 12, 2020

    Thanks David!

    dj_paige
    Legend
    March 9, 2020

    The current version of Lightroom classic (version 9.2) makes cloud and mobile features optional, you never have to turn them on. Almost everything else appears the same as Lightroom 6.14 (plus some new sliders and features).

    Known Participant
    March 9, 2020

    I’m hoping that’s the case, I just want to confirm unequivocally that it’ll allow uninterefered use between two Mac users. Do you happen to know if this is the case, for certain?

    dj_paige
    Legend
    March 9, 2020

    I don't know what "uninterefered use" means.