Lightroom 6 or CC Classic (moving from LR5)?

GSXRMovistar · 7 Nov 2017 at 23:45

Been a while since I have done any serious photo editing but now have a small project I want to work through, so this coupled with a new MacBook I'm thinking about upgrading from Lightroom 5.

Seems my options are either pick up an old copy of Lightroom 6 or subscribe to the new Creative Cloud Classic version (not the latest CC version).

So what are peoples opinions here? does the latest CC Classic offer much more over LR6?

Also is it possible to configure two LR installs to work on the same catalogue? I normally work off my desktop but with the new MacBook as mentioned it would be handy if I could work from both.

Thanks.

xdcx · 8 Nov 2017 at 09:43

I was using LR5 up until 2 weeks ago but subscribed to the Adobe CC Photographer plan. It's £9.99 a month and gives you both LR CC and LR Classic as well as Photoshop CC of course.

LR Classic is brilliant, visually no difference to me as a newer sort of user interface wise compared to LR5 but everything is quicker and smoother in my workflow. Main benefit for me was HDR merging inbuilt rather than having to move out into an external app to do HDR merges.

I would say go for it, £10 a month is worth it for what you get in my opinion and you'll always be bang up to date plus you get typekit fonts, cloud storage, Portfolio access etc etc. It's really rather good.

I think if you had your catalogue file on a shared area on your home network or duplicate it between the machines you could work from two installs on separate machines with no problems, but please don't quote me on this point.

FreeStream · 9 Nov 2017 at 15:40

If you don’t earn anything from it: 6
Otherwise: CC

iamtheoneneo · 9 Nov 2017 at 16:20

I know CC is faster, but personally its Classic for me.
Mainly because the UI is ingrained in my memory and im not really in the position to relearn stuff, or learn that a feature I may need on one occasion is not present.

Also obviously depending on your adobe subscription you wont actually have to make the decision as you get both.

GSXRMovistar · 10 Nov 2017 at 12:54

Thanks, I've opted for the CC Photographer plan.