New! Updated Lightroom CC

I’m only a hobbyist so not a worry for me.

It just traps you further into the Adobe ecosystem and that’s a worry to me. I don’t really like the subscription model as it stands.
 
LiE said:
The new Lightroom CC seems half finished. No profiles/camera calibration. No tone curve?! No split tones!

Found this link useful for a comparison.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/lightroom-cc-vs-lightroom-classic/

How they missed this out when it's on the phone app is just madness.
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I totally missed the fact it didn't have tone curves - just assumed it would at least include everything from LR mobile! Definitely sticking with LR Classic CC (stupid name) for the foreseeable.
 
I'm still using LR5 standalone.

I would be happy to pay for cc classic if it really is faster. Even with a fast pc and everything on m2 drives LR5 is still slow.

Adobe have touted performance updates before and we went from very slow to just slow.
Is the new version genuinely faster?
Using more than one thread on export yet?

Ive never bothered about cloud before.
But I would like to rate and tag my photos on iPad... Will CC let me do this and sync with my pc?
 
Definitely time to.move on from LR. I am stopping my commercial shooting so don't mind if something else is.not quite as fast or features, as long as it is close.to LR and easy transition of workflow.
 
It seems that Capture One Pro doesn't support importing of Lightroom's custom presets?

I'm happy to stick with Lightroom 6 (I have only ever bought standalone) and see where things are in the next major release. I have zero interest in cloud based solutions with limited features just yet. I only edit on my main workstation, and have no reason to need to edit "anywhere".

I also see no reason why anyone would think of moving to something else if their current install is doing its job? Just keep using it until it no longer has the latest features, then look at what your options are.

Holst1981 said:
I'm still using LR5 standalone.

I would be happy to pay for cc classic if it really is faster. Even with a fast pc and everything on m2 drives LR5 is still slow.
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GPU acceleration in LR6 works really well. Just make sure the option is turned on in settings. It only applies to the develop module of course, but makes editing and moving around images much quicker.

All my i7's cores appear to be utilised when exporting a batch.
 
mrk said:
It seems that Capture One Pro doesn't support importing of Lightroom's custom presets?

I'm happy to stick with Lightroom 6 (I have only ever bought standalone) and see where things are in the next major release. I have zero interest in cloud based solutions with limited features just yet. I only edit on my main workstation, and have no reason to need to edit "anywhere".

I also see no reason why anyone would think of moving to something else if their current install is doing its job? Just keep using it until it no longer has the latest features, then look at what your options are.



GPU acceleration in LR6 works really well. Just make sure the option is turned on in settings. It only applies to the develop module of course, but makes editing and moving around images much quicker.

All my i7's cores appear to be utilised when exporting a batch.
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I'm a full time photographer and have found every lightroom upto 7 (CC 2018) to be infuriatingly slow, absolutely did my head in, but I am used to its editing work flow so had to work with it.

This latest version is everything I have ever wanted from lightroom - FINALLY it's fast enough to use at the pace I edit - features wise its near no different to 6.

But the speed increase is more than worth it alone - seriously it's that much faster.
 
By latest, do you mean Classic CC?

If the gains from 6 to this new one are that good, maybe it's worth the tenner a month for regular users. I Don't shoot paid work all the time, but I do put strong value to my personal workflow time as well. Whilst I find V6 standalone to be very good compared to V5, there's always room for improvement.

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Further reading: https://fstoppers.com/apps/adobe-lightroom-classic-cc-really-faster-200058

Hmm maybe I might just get Classic CC then.
 
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mrk said:
By latest, do you mean Classic CC?

If the gains from 6 to this new one are that good, maybe it's worth the tenner a month for regular users. I Don't shoot paid work all the time, but I do put strong value to my personal workflow time as well. Whilst I find V6 standalone to be very good compared to V5, there's always room for improvement.

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Further reading: https://fstoppers.com/apps/adobe-lightroom-classic-cc-really-faster-200058

Hmm maybe I might just get Classic CC then.
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Yeah thats what I mean, any full time tog will use classic most of the time, really don't care for lightroom CC.

Yes it's that much faster, without reading that - Im using it literally right now editing wedding photos and its pure joy to use now - at least for me - no taking forever to edit, it's literally doubled my work flow speed - well almost anyway.

I'm on a Ryzen 7 1700 @ 3.9ghz, maybe it's the extra cores helping, unsure, either way, WELL WORTH IT, editing is smooth as butter now, literally does what I tell it, the moment I click.
 
I'll give it a go later tonight then, I'm mid-editing a wedding shoot at present, so continuing the second half should be interesting.

I never thought the day would come when Lightroom was back to it's original version speed.

I'm on an older CPU than you (6700K 4.4GHz), and I think yours has more physical cores? Still should see the benefits though.
 
mrk said:
I'll give it a go later tonight then, I'm mid-editing a wedding shoot at present, so continuing the second half should be interesting.

I never thought the day would come when Lightroom was back to it's original version speed.
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Yeah if your editing a wedding GO for it !! (backup your LR Cat 1st as it will update it to the new Process), any presets you may use as a starting point, remember to update to the new process version 4.

But yes, it's literally the best thing that has happened to me this year - sounds sad I know, but I spend day in, day out with lightroom, most of my waking work hours is in light room.

So its not me going 'OTT', but for me its literally life changing fast - because I no longer feel depressed and frustrated and angry at the PC taking god damn forever to simply edit photos!! AND I'm using a top end decent PC as well (rest spec is 980ti, 32gb Ram, all pics and cache drives on SSD)

Simply going to the new classic CC has been astronomically beneficial - im glad its finally happened, im angry it took so many years -adobe KNOW many people make a living with their software so it was disgusting it took this long.

Either way, I can finally have a happier more productive work day.
 
Classic CC here, feels nice and snappy!

The UI on the new CC is nice, but until they have the same features as Classic I cannot use it. I use tone curves and split toning a fair amount.
 
Wait a minute, does classic cc not have tone curve?

A lot of my custom presets rely on tone curve adjustments for grading, among other adjustments. I can't produce work if my signature style isn't applied to edits!
 
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