![]() Relationship between LR Classic and LR Cloud LR Cloud seems to be Adobe’s response to the possible dominance of iPhotos and Google Photos for smartphone users, which gives an easy default choice for uploading and storing photos in the cloud and both of which continue to improve their tools for cataloging and editing photos. Over the years I have recommended LR Classic to newcomers to digital photography as a step up from the free Apple and Google products, simply because of the robustness and strength of the key-wording feature, the ability to find your photo irrespective of clumsy folders or other storage choices. This made LR Classic the go to product for professional photographers and serious amateurs. LR Classic’s central feature was its robust database, which also provided ways to categorize photos, coupled with editing tools to enhance digital photos with non-destructive editing. LR Classic was developed in conjunction with professional photographers to meet their needs in managing the then newly emerging digital photography and the workflows that digital photography required. I find your books always helpful and your insights into Lightroom invaluable. Victoria Brampton’s comment that LRClassic is not a 2nd class citizen, rather a citizen of a different country is a perfect analogy and has clarified something I have been thinking for a while, so thank you Victoria. I still believe it is an important feature. ![]() I have commented earlier on this thread - requesting that Adobe strongly consider syncing of keywords between Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic. I have uninstalled both Lightroom Classic and CC from my system-no need for either with mylio. In the Lightroom ecosystem, to get anything close to the above functionality, I would need two licenses (one for my login and one for my wife's), two different apps on each computer (Classic and CC), synchronization to the mobile devices would need to be managed manually on each computer (since smart collections don't sync to mobile devices and since storage capacity on the mobile devices is limited), AND keywords wouldn't sync. ![]() Oh, and on top of all that, if I did want to edit my photos, it allows the photos to be opened in Photoshop or almost any other editing software from within the mylio app. Plus, it does a great job of managing storage on the mobile devices (by using thumbnails and preview files), and it only costs $10 a month for up to five devices. It is very flexible in how photos are added to our system, and it keeps everything-including ALL metadata-in perfect sync and up to date on all of our devices. I also want a system where both of us can easily add and edit metadata within the stored files on our server independently from one another and where we can each view all of our photos on our mobile devices wherever we are. As the photos are added, the original directory structure on the file server needs to be maintained. I need a system that allows my wife to add photos to our server from her iPad or iMac and lets me do the same thing from my Android phone or Windows 10 computer. I don't do a lot of editing of my photo files, so I'm okay with the limited functionality mylio has in that regard. I have a home file server with all of my photo files in a YYYY/MM directory storage format that is backed up continuously in multiple locations with all of my other important files, so CC's proprietary file storage format is a dealbreaker for me. As far as I can tell, Lightroom CC won't allow you to leave your files organized in the original directory structure on your hard drive, which is something I really liked about LR Classic.
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