Amateur Photographer

Lightroom tips Classic vs CC

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1 What’s in a name?

Long-term users and beginners alike may be confused about their Lightroom options. Lightroom now exists in two main forms: Classic and CC. Lightroom Classic (previously LR CC) is the same app many LR users have been enjoying for years. By contrast, the new LR CC departs from the traditional method of storing photos on a local drive. Instead, original photos are uploaded to online cloud storage so they can be accessed, edited and synced across your desktop, tablet and phone.

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2 Picking a plan

Adobe offers three Lightroom and/or Photoshop plans. At $9.99 a month, the Photography Plan gets you both versions of Lightroom – Classic vs CC – plus Photoshop CC. However this only comes with 20GB of cloud storage, which is unlikely to

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