Indeed, gone are the links to the “library” and “develop” modules (as well as those to the “map,” “book,” “slideshow,” “print” and “web” modules that nobody ever used anyway). In the old version, you’d switch between your libraries and the “develop” module to edit your images. The team pared down the interface to its bare minimum, for example. If you’re a current Lightroom CC user, then moving to the new Lightroom (which can automatically import your existing libraries when you install it) will feel a bit disorienting. And because these images now live in the cloud, Adobe can also use its Sensei AI platform to automatically scan and index these photos to make them easily searchable, for example. The company had previously made some steps in this direction, but it’s now going all out. This library in the cloud then allows you to access all of your images on all of your devices. The result of this is the new Lightroom, which - depending on the plan you choose (more about that later) - allows you to save up to a terabyte of your images in the cloud. “We’ve seen a big shift where everybody has a high-quality camera in their pocket,” he told me and noted that what users want today is a powerful tool that allows them to communicate but doesn’t require them to spend a lot of time to learn. Indeed, to underline this point, the company is launching a new version today that, among other things, promises significantly improved performance with faster preview generation, for example.Īdobe director of product management Tom Hogarty tells me that the general idea behind this move is to allow Lightroom to adapt to the new reality of photography, where users tend to take a lot of their photos on their phones - and take a lot more images in general.

It’ll be rebranded as Lightroom CC Classic and Adobe promises that it’ll keep investing in it. I have little doubt that this move will create tremors in the photography community, but let’s get this right out of the way: the Lightroom you currently love (or hate) isn’t going away.

The new Lightroom puts an emphasis on ease of use and cloud connectivity while the old version focused on hard drive-based storage and spawned a cottage industry of YouTube explainers. Today, Adobe is launching a completely new version of Lightroom CC that will come as a shock to current Lightroom users. While Photoshop is Adobe’s flagship product for photographers, its photo management and editing tool Lightroom is probably even more popular among photographers as it allows them to easily manipulate the color and other aspects of their photos.

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