just like the phone app, has camera, sync etc, but the interface is more like the desktop app. iPad version (Arguably the best iPad photo app on the planet, it’s really good). Also has a camera as part of the app, that allows you to shoot in RAW and it syncs the photos.ģ. The phone app (iOS and Android) the images sync, you can edit and the edits sync too. When you import the photos, they are synced in the cloud.Ģ. The desktop app: Very similar in function to Lightroom Classic, most of the features, but without the extra modules and it’s cloud-synced.

There are 4 parts to the Lightroom Familyġ. They decided to call all of this Lightroom CC and now its just Lightroom.

Then Adobe added a new desktop app to work with the phone app and the iPad version. Everyone understood Lightroom mobile and desktop. As Nimbus matured, it was known as Lightroom Mobile. Project Nimbus was a faster, lighter version of Lightroom that was mobile first. While photographers were happily using Lightroom (insert version number here), Adobe launched a new beta. In what might be the most confusing marketing move ever, (with the unnecessary adding the name Photoshop to Lightroom) there is another Lightroom, just called Lightroom. Lightroom was called, Project Lightroom, then Lightroom 1-6, Lightroom CC, then Lightroom Classic. You can selectively sync collections in the cloud, but you don’t have to have any images in the cloud if you don’t want. (learn Lightroom in 15 mins here)Īll our photos are stored on a hard drive. It’s a desktop app, with all the modules such as book, maps, printing etc. Is the latest version of Lightroom we have always had. When you drop an image into that smart folder it will be placed into your local library and synced across the whole shebang. I’ll also show you how to create a smart folder. You will learn how to selectively sync certain images between Lightroom and Lightroom Classic. This tutorial explains why there are 2 versions and shows you how to make them talk to each other. There are 2 different versions of Lightroom. How to sync all your photos through Lightroom

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