Newbie Needs help

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I have been playing around for a few weeks and even made a nice slide show. But, I'm a bit confused with Lr and LrC.

Here is my basic understanding - Lr is basically for organizing and storing. And Lr C is best for manipulating and making slideshows etc. I found LrC very intuitive after a few missteps.

What I'm struggling with is storage. Since I pay for a TB of storage - I really want to migrate everything to the Adobe Cloud from my laptop etc. And, then after I clean up, delete the 1000's of photos, and organize into folders, slideshows etc, I would like to then do a backup to my NAS (or another disk).

In summary, I'm hoping to put all the photos up on Lr - clean them up with LrC - and then deal with backing them up somewhere for safety in case of an Adobe problem.

I'm just worried that I'm going to delete from my HD and find out that I did something wrong and everything is gone. It took me a while to figure out that all the manipulating I needed to do was in LrC. From my understanding Lr is really only about storage... And, I'm a little confused about LrC and where it accesses the photos from. It seems that some may be on my HD and others the Cloud... confusing.

So - how do I make sure everything is in Lr - delete everything from my HD - manipulate in LrC - and then do a backup volume on my NAS.

Sorry for the long message but I wanted to make sure both my confusion, understanding (for what it's worth) and intent are clear. 🙂

Jim Wilde · Answer

Here is my basic understanding - Lr is basically for organizing and storing. And Lr C is best for manipulating and making slideshows etc. I found LrC very intuitive after a few missteps.

You're going wrong from the start, as your understanding is largely incorrect. Both the Lightroom desktop and Lightroom Classic can be used for organising, storing, and editing your images, and independently of each other, i.e. you can use either to do essentially the same job. The major differences between them are that Classic stores images locally, whereas Lightroom Desktop stores them in the cloud, and Classic has a lot more features than Lightroom (such as Slideshow and Printing).

Trying to use both to do the one job (i.e. organising and storing in Lightroom and then editing, printing and running slideshows in Classic) is possible but not recommended by Adobe, and comes with complications and frustrations. My advice to you would be to figure out which version you want to use and go from there. Start with this: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-cc-vs-classic-features/

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