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No perpetual license for Lightroom 7
Jo Ann Snover:
Lightroom as we knew it is now Lightroom Classic. Lightroom 6.x will get new camera updates through the end of 2017 and then it's history. Photography plans are increasing in price if you need more than 20GB of online storage.
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Adobe page with plan options
If you do buy into the subscription plan, there's a apparently a $14.99 deal for the 1TB storage plan for a while (and realistically, 20GB is useless for anyone but a hobby photographer if you really do want to go with the new Lightroom Lite (they're not calling it that) )
Note that Adobe says that Lightroom Classic CC is still in active development, but my gut says the writing is on the wall for it as they have a new code base for the new Lightroom Lite
Some follow up articles about Lightroom*
Adobe's answers to LR announcement questions (comments invited)
Interview with Tom Hogarty on LR split and futures
Death by Subscription
What Just Happened to Lightroom? (On1 blog - they clearly have an interest as On1 Photo RAW, now in beta 2, is a competitor)
Adobe's Photography product manager on use of online photographs - presumably those stored by customers online plus those in Adobe Stock - to fuel Adobe Sensei features. Certainly gives Adobe a reason to want more content online for it to use for its own purposes, not just store for customer retrieval...
An older article - March 2017 - where Adobe's CTO talks about the role of data in developing Sensei. Data includes imagery plus features used by "pros" (not sure how they obtain or categorize users)
PaulieWalnuts:
They've been moving everything to the cloud so this shouldn't be a surprise. When standalone Photoshop disappeared Lightroom wasn't far behind.
The thing I'm most worried about moving forward is getting pushed into the cloud and then getting squeezed. They're reporting records profits as of right now. Eventually the cloud/subscription model will plateau which means they'll need to find ways of posting more record financial gains to make shareholders happy. That will absolutely come from raising prices. It's probably already baked into their plan. So that lovely $9.99 per month I'm paying for Lightroom/Photoshop will slowly become $10.99, then $12.99, then $15.99 then $19.99, and so on. Or they'll just decide to "sunset" the $9.99 plan.
I'm already poking around at alternatives to Adobe. Hopefully by the time they start slowly raising the temperate to boil us frogs some decent options will be available.
Zero Talent:
Here is the Petapixel link with demos of their new Luminosity/Color masking feature:
https://petapixel.com/2017/10/18/bye-bye-lightroom-hello-lightroom-cc-faster-lightroom-classic/
It is definitely interresting to have such option directly on RAW files.
Jo Ann Snover:
--- Quote from: Zero Talent on October 18, 2017, 13:45 ---Here is the Petapixel link with demos of their new Luminosity/Color masking feature:
https://petapixel.com/2017/10/18/bye-bye-lightroom-hello-lightroom-cc-faster-lightroom-classic/
It is definitely interresting to have such option directly on RAW files.
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Both of which are already in Capture One Pro, which is what I've switched to, as part of their local adjustment layers
Zero Talent:
--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on October 18, 2017, 14:04 ---
--- Quote from: Zero Talent on October 18, 2017, 13:45 ---Here is the Petapixel link with demos of their new Luminosity/Color masking feature:
https://petapixel.com/2017/10/18/bye-bye-lightroom-hello-lightroom-cc-faster-lightroom-classic/
It is definitely interresting to have such option directly on RAW files.
--- End quote ---
Both of which are already in Capture One Pro, which is what I've switched to, as part of their local adjustment layers
--- End quote ---
Then I must say: Thank you C1Pro for driving up the progress with this feature!
Competition is great!
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