For this user, the Creative Cloud option is the only choice if you want the latest version of Photoshop CC. The first uses Lightroom in conjunction with Photoshop and wants access to both programs. To start, we have to acknowledge that there are two types of Lightroom users.
But today, I aim to cut through this negativity and take an objective look at the differences between the two options. Read about this on forums and photography websites and you will still come across a lot of negativity towards the Creative Cloud subscription model, especially from Photoshop users upset at the loss of a perpetual licence. There’s little doubt this was a raw deal, but Adobe listened and introduced a new package for photographers – a subscription to both Lightroom and Photoshop CC for $9.99 a month (or $119.88 per year).
Not only was subscribing more expensive in the long run, compared to upgrading Photoshop regularly, but the license to use the software expired once monthly payments stopped.
For photographers who had already purchased the full version of Photoshop this represented a significant price increase. Creative Cloud is announcedĪdobe’s initial announcement of the Creative Cloud licensing concept was somewhat controversial as the price for a subscription to Photoshop ran at $20 a month (all prices in this article are in US dollars). But how do you know which is the best option for you? Read on to find out. You can still go for the standalone version, or you can buy Lightroom as part of a Creative Cloud monthly membership. But ever since Adobe announced the Creative Cloud subscription service, photographers have been faced with two choices.
All you had to do was buy the full version of the program, and upgrade (if you wished) every time a new version came out. Such a situation would be unfortunate for both companies, as the reason I pay for cloud services is to preserve and allow me to directly access all high quality originals in a simple, automated way, and not having the HEIC original on either the apple or adobe cloud would be great reasons to move away from both companies, as such a situation would make me very unhappy.Buying Lightroom used to be simple. In short, I'm assuming that the HEIC IS uploaded, and can be downloaded, otherwise, my last years photos taken will have been forceably downgraded to a lossy jpg format even though I pay for two premium cloud based services, via Adobe & Apple.
Of course, if such an issue was the case, it would be simple and practical for adobe to have a note saying 'if the adobe cloud hasn't stored the unmodified original heic, you'll receive this error, until we patch our software to prompt you with a more clear error'.
It's entirely possible that adobe (for various practical reasons) upload compressed photos, and so, when trying to download the heic version, it may error, as they don't actually have it, as it might not be included in the lightroom app sync. I'm hoping and assuming that the heic original that the phone holds temporarily is uploaded to the lightroom cloud, and that I should be able to download it from there, even thought Icloud web interface only allows me to download a compressed jpg. From there, I can retrieve the photos in icloud, but I'm after the unmodified originals, not the icloud compressed versions. In my case it's iphone 8/ios 14.5.1 lightroom app syncing photos taken with the phone, that go into the photos app. Library Folder: C:\Users\ShelleyA\AppData\Local\Adobe\Lightroom CC\Data Settings Folder: C:\Users\ShelleyA\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom CC
Graphics Processor Detail: loaded: Yes, supported: Yes, compute: Yes, init: I4_GPU3, hard: success, soft: success, wl: Yes, bl: NoĪpplication Folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom CC Graphics Processor Info: DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with Max-Q Design (27.) - 4 GB Input types: Multitouch: Yes, Integrated touch: Yes, Integrated pen: Yes, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: Yes System DPI setting: 216 DPI (high DPI mode) Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 7Ĭamera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2Ĭamera Raw virtual memory: 0MB / 8042MB (0%)Ĭamera Raw real memory: 0MB / 16085MB (0%) Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 2761.0 MB Real memory used by Lightroom: 1984.2 MB (12.3%) Real memory available to Lightroom: 16085.9 MB
Lightroom version: 4.2 圆4 (Mar 2 2021)Ĭomputer model: HP HP Spectre x360 Convertible 15-df0xxx / Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU 2.20GHz