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.