In fact you have to add them to one and delete them from others if you want them visible in one place only. This is fine until you want to ‘move’ images from one album to another. Instead, you find images according to their properties, not where they are located. Lightroom stores images in one giant searchable ‘pot’ without any definite storage structure. There is a $10/£10/month Lightroom-only plan which includes 1TB storage, but it does not include Photoshop. This means for any kind of external editing, Photoshop is essential. You can round-trip images to Photoshop alone, and you could of course run plug-ins from there. Lightroom does not support plug-ins or third-party external editors. This means that the free storage you get with a regular Photography Plan won’t be enough and you will have to find another $10/£10 per month for 1TB cloud storage. You can cache some or all of your images to your desktop computer, but the full set still has to be in the cloud. Your entire photo library has to be stored in the cloud, and on Adobe’s own servers. On top of that it has a much more streamlined, efficient and modern-looking interface than Lightroom Classic – if only Lightroom Classic looked like this!īut before you take the plunge and swap to Adobe’s cloud-based version of Lightroom, there are six things you need to be aware to avoid nasty surprises. It has the same editing tools as Lightroom Classic, so there’s no disadvantage there, and it also leverages Adobe’s Sensei AI for image searches based on subject and image types, reducing the need for a lot of manual keywording.

The web version of Adobe Lightroom (now just called ‘Lightroom’ by Adobe), is a very compelling tool for photographers who want to view, edit and share their images across a range of different devices, and to have all their images available everywhere.

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