I am really shocked of what is happening and I hope that Adobe (thanks for sharing the results of the survey with them) will listen to its customers and give them a perpetual license version back…

I’ve been using Lightroom since its beta versions: I was so excited of this (at the time) new product that I started to show my local photo community (Ancona, Italy) how to use this revolutionary tool.

I purchased and used version 1, then upgraded to version 2, 3, 4…

Now I really feel lost: no standalone version available…

I won’t switch to a subscription plan: i find it way too expensive.

I really feel like *Adobe betrayed our trust*.

I will wait some time and see if Adobe will change its mind…

If not, I will switch to another software (which one? C1? DxO? Aperture X3?).

Sometimes I think Adobe wants to kill Lightroom as a professional tool: maybe it is a menace to Photoshop since 90% of work can be done with Lightroom and Photoshop is loosing its supremacy…

But I think Adobe should be careful to betray customer’s trust: if many customers switch to another software and start using it with good results, it can be very dangerous for the entire Creative Cloud Suite community…

Thanks for listening to us

Paolo S.

…and until cloud access read/write speeds (i.e. bandwidth) becomes comparable to local drive I/O speeds.

I’m not interested in having everything in the cloud. First, I’m not paying $10 a month for storage. Second, since CC also resides on iThingies, it means that cloud storage will need to be duplicated on icloud. This makes no sense. If I do pay for 1TB of storage per from Adobe, I still have to increase my storage on for iThingies.

With LR Classic CC on the desktop, and LR CC on my devices, I’m already getting what I want and need. If Adobe forces the issue and eventually forces the cloud option, then I’m out. I would use LR to do initial edits and export the shots I want to TIF or JPG and then move the files out of the Adobe cloud.

IMHO Adobe should proceed with extreme caution here, at least until such time as super cheap cloud storage becomes ubiquitous.

PS. Luminar will have a DAM module in 2018. With a perpetual license of course.

The problem is not that the chose to call it “Classic” and not “Pro”. It’s that they took the brand of a leading professional photography workflow tool which was built after years of feedback from the photography community and felt like it was developed by photographers for photographers… and gave it to a mass market cloud album/editor app.

This signals a significant change of focus and priority. For many photographers who invested 10,000’s of pictures in Lr betting on the longevity of this tool, this is a severe break of trust.

I think Adobe are missing a trick here, they should be looking at closer integration between the 2 products, being the optimist my view is that LR CC, could be looked at as being LR Mobile for laptops and as such could with a bit of imagination be the ideal travel solution, for this to work I think the following easy changes need implementing;

1. A setting that prevents images from being uploaded to the cloud on a metered connection as in Windows, you don’t want a single SD card wiping out your cellular data allowance in the field.

2. The ability to rename files and create a backup copy of the files on import.

3. A seamless way of adding the cloud files to your regular folder structure back at base in Lightroom Classic (crap name btw!!)

4. More reasonable pricing for cloud backup and the facility to sync existing folders in LR Classic

Just my tuppence

Scott,
You may want to expand your training offerings to include On1 and Capture One because your “user market” is about to start shrinking.