Move to Lightroom CC with more the 1TB of images

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Hi,I've been using Lightroom Classic for several years now with more the 1TB of images in my catalog.My catalog is well organized and backed up to the cloud so I love the solution.I really like the idea of Lightroom CC and I want to move to the cloud solution, I currently have the Lightroom and PS subscription which gives me 20GB of storage in the cloud, and even if I'll upgrade to the 1TB it won't hold my full collection... (and I don't have the money to actually pay for it now)What are my options on moving to CC without moving all the images to the cloud?Can I mark only some of the images to the cloud while keep others only local?Should I work on both CC and Classic side by side? (can this be done?)What is the best solution for my situation?Thanx!

JohanElzenga · Accepted Answer

If you import images directly to Lightroom CC, you can have that program configured so that they are also downloaded to Classic. That way you have the full-sized images on the web as well as stored locally on your hard drive. And that is done automatically in one step. Using that type of workflow you can have full-sized images in Lightroom CC when you need them, and just share Smart previews that don't impact your cloud allotment at other times.

JimHess wrote
If you import images directly to Lightroom CC, you can have that program configured so that they are also downloaded to Classic. That way you have the full-sized images on the web as well as stored locally on your hard drive. And that is done automatically in one step. Using that type of workflow you can have full-sized images in Lightroom CC when you need them, and just share Smart previews that don't impact your cloud allotment at other times.

This probably requires a bit more explanation. When you import an image into Lightroom CC, that image gets synced to the cloud. When you have Lightroom Classic installed (on the same computer or on a different computer) and you sync the Lightroom Classic catalog, then Lightroom Classic will download everything that's in the cloud but not yet in Lightroom Classic. That means that images imported in Lightroom CC will indeed download to Lightroom Classic, but it's not a matter of "have that program configured so that they are also downloaded to Classic". It's just a matter of syncing the Lightroom Classic catalog. Remember that you can only sync one catalog.

JohanElzenga · Answer

linktree wroteHi,I've been using Lightroom Classic for several years now with more the 1TB of images in my catalog.My catalog is well organized and backed up to the cloud so I love the solution.I really like the idea of Lightroom CC and I want to move to the cloud solution, I currently have the Lightroom and PS subscription which gives me 20GB of storage in the cloud, and even if I'll upgrade to the 1TB it won't hold my full collection... (and I don't have the money to actually pay for it now)What are my options on moving to CC without moving all the images to the cloud?Can I mark only some of the images to the cloud while keep others only local?Should I work on both CC and Classic side by side? (can this be done?)What is the best solution for my situation?Thanx!There are no options for moving to Lightroom CC without moving all the images to the cloud. Stay with Lightroom Classic. You can sync some images to the cloud (as smart previews) from Lightroom Classic if you want to show images on mobile devices, but you cannot selectively sync if you switch from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom CC.

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