You start by importing your photos into the Lightroom library which you can then sort, edit and export. It's also designed to be used alongside software that's specifically designed for photo editing such as Photoshop (hence why they're packaged together under the photography plan) so if you find you can't edit an image how you want to in Lightroom, you can move it into software that's designed to handle more complicated edits. There are a few tools available in the Classic version that the mobile app doesn't have, something we'll be talking about further into the review.Īn important note for those using Lightroom 6, new camera support for this will stop at the end of the year and from now on, Lightroom won't be available with the old-style 'perpetual licence' where you made a one-off payment and away you went.įor those who haven't used Lightroom before, it's an image cataloguing programme that you can also use to make photo edits. For those who prefer to save things locally don't worry the name change doesn't mean you suddenly have to use the cloud, like you do with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC, you can still create folders and manage things on your own computer.

The name change just groups the Mac and Windows version under one umbrella with the cloud version of the software which is known as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC. You can almost set your watch by Adobe's Lightroom update and here we are, two years later since the release of Lightroom 6 (we know Lightroom CC has had a few updates in between but we're talking about the desktop-only version), and we have a brand-new version waiting to be installed.Īdobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC & Mobile (CC) FeaturesĪs well as performance updates and tool enhancements, Adobe has changed the name of its popular desktop application so instead of having a number '7' after its name, you'll now know it as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC.

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