Cloud Lightroom, is it worth it?

Thanks guys for your opinions.  To bad it doesn’t work on my Windows version at all.  Modern neural networks do wonders  and I hoped it might be something of such.   Looks like I should continue to do things old way  so far.

kirkr5689  wrote So  would appreciative if someone could share on those topics

Lr CC is less than a year old and while the feature set has seen steady gains over recent months I'm not aware of anything on the tagging front that would lend itself to some of the requirements you've mentioned. For example, how would it find 'special detail hidden somewhere on some psd layer' when it doesn't support layered files unless they also includes a composite preview (Lr Classic isn't any better in this regard).

kirkr5689 Asset management and tagging is a tyresome task on its own so I wonder what new Lightroom could offer in that field? Read somewhere it does auto tagging with AI.

You can find out more about Adobe's machine learning technology at Adobe Sensei | Unified artificial intelligence and machine learning

The Adobe Sensei Keywording works reasonably well although it’s not perfect. It is supplemented by your own keywords but the system requires a network connection to work e.g. all information is stored server-side and not on your local computer. I guess patterns and layer identification could be possible in the future depending on available data sets for machine learning, but not yet. I gave a brief description in my blog last December, when Adobe introduced the update “Auto” button for editing images, based on wide data sets from professional photographers.

http://99jon.blogspot.com/2017/12/lightroom-cc-update-version-11.html

The basic Lightroom CC plan provides 1 TB of cloud storage. You would have to pay extra for additional cloud storage. Based on your description of your needs, I don't think Lightroom CC will fill your needs. Cloud performance is not stellar for many. My concern is that, for the type of work you are doing, Lightroom CC would be extremely frustrating. Others might have a different perspective.