You are absolutely right that Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) is the underlying code powering any and all of Adobe’s raw photo editing. When I have questions and need some Lightroom understanding, I’ve found The Lightroom Queen website to be my best source, as with this blog post, for example – Should I move from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom Local? | The Lightroom QueenĪdobe Camera Raw (ACR) is the underlying image editor … I don’t want its fiddly import and catalog considerations. Lightroom Classic is off the table for me since I walked away from it a couple of years ago. (Note that, if you are willing to go a more complicated route, you can also get to Adobe Camera Raw via Photoshop.) And it is designed to work best if all photos have been uploaded to the cloud.Īt some point, Lightroom might catch up but, for now, Adobe Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw give me the full range of capabilities that I want and need. I had high hopes for it, but Lightroom is still missing a few features and is weak in some of the features that it has. For me, I can merge my wife’s photos with mine as I am tasked with backup and archiving - tasks she ignores and simply assumes her camera roll is taking care of it all.Īdobe Lightroom, with its brand new “local” tab, is a capable and useable raw photo editor with a clean, uncluttered, interface and should be easier to approach for new users. Makes managing one “master” family photo library across multiple users a lot easier. Makes Lightroom an interesting choice for photo editing/management without having to buy-in to their cloud syncing architecture any more.Ĭompared to Apple photos, for example, no limitations on having photos on the system drive versus external or network/NAS drives, no constant exiting and restarting photos to switch catalogs or photo database, etc.Īll photos are fully local so easy to grab the photos with any archive or file utility to copy and backup to any destination without worrying about whether the photo is fully downloaded from cloud or not, etc. (Specifically, Lightroom is NOT synching to the cloud and not doing any file management on your behalf.) You can immediately edit/tag/favorite photos without needing any database or catalog or “importing” of the photo.ĭoesn’t use any cloud storage (or costs) and you have all your photos local on your system, including edits, and can backup/copy/archive anyway your want windows or macOS) is available in a “local” section in Lightroom. Adobe just added a fully local option for photos in Lightroom.Įvery folder/drive available to your host operating system (e.g.
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