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February 10, 2019
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Low quality photos in Lightroom online

  • February 10, 2019
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Hi

What for is sync function if it doesn't work?

This is a photo in Lightroom Classic CC:

This is the same photo after sync to Lightroom online:

(The artifacts on the sky are really huge)

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Just Shoot Me
Legend
February 10, 2019

All that is shown on the Online system is a Smart Preview. No matter what type, kind, of file you Sync (Upload) all that is displayed are Smart Previews of the images.

Participating Frequently
February 10, 2019

Yep, I read about that. My question is more like a rhetorical question. Why did Adobe make such function if result is not usable???

It's not a complex task from the engineering point of view. From the marketing side this is total fail as well.

Community Expert
February 15, 2019

SeanMcCormack  wrote

3 would be an option if you stay inside the 1TB limit and didn't need all the featured of Classic.

Agreed, and also a very high-speed upload Internet service! My ISP provides a 100Mb/S (12.5MB/S) download speed, but only 33Mb/S (4.1 MB/S) for upload. Even with this  fast Internet connection it would take almost 3 days to upload 1.0 TB of image files.

For professional photographers like yourself that shoot high volumes of image files it simply isn't practical with the current Internet backbone speeds. Then there are the issues of confidentiality and possible loss of some or all images due to an Adobe storage server HW/SW failure, or security breech. So you need to keep a local copy and a local backup copy. Even then I question what might happen if some image files in the "Cloud" simply become corrupted due to HW/SW storage server issues. How do you handle that to get a non-corrupted local backup copy synced to the server. I'm not am IT expert, but until LR has a Local to Cloud file checksum verification "built-in"–This is a disaster waiting to happen! Given that Adobe hasn't added multi-user catalog access to LR it's unlikely they'll implement checksum verification. Peace!


> My ISP provides a 100Mb/S (12.5MB/S) download speed, but only 33Mb/S (4.1 MB/S) for upload. Even with this  fast Internet connection it would take almost 3 days to upload 1.0 TB of image files.

Indeed. And most people have far lower upload speeds. Typical US broadband is only 5 Mbit/s upload. For 1TB of files that is 20 days of uploading. I have several terabytes of images. CC is not workable, let alone that it is not a good backup solution either because of the reasons you mention.

DdeGannes
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 10, 2019

Some more info is needed.

What equipment are you using to view the photo online. The synced file is a smart preview of the original file.

Regards, Denis: iMac 27” mid-2015, macOS 11.7.10 Big Sur; 2TB SSD, 24 GB Ram, GPU 2 GB; LrC 12.5,; Lr 6.5, PS 24.7,; ACR 15.5,; (also Laptop Win 11, ver 24H2, LrC 15.0.1, PS 27.0; ) Camera Oly OM-D E-M1.
Participating Frequently
February 10, 2019

Thank you for your reply.

I'm using:

- Adobe Lightroom CC Classic 8.1

- Safari 12.0.2 browser

- macOS Mojave

- MacBook Pro 15 2017