- [Instructor] There are two different
lightroom applications for your Mac
or Windows computer;
lightroom classic and lightroom.
This course covers the essentials for lightroom classic.
So before you get started,
I want to help you determine
if lightroom classic is the right choice for you.
Here's a quick overview of each lightroom.
First, lightroom classic.
The focus of this course,
is a desktop computer app that runs on your Windows
or Mac computer.
Lightroom classic only runs on a computer,
not a tablet or phone.
Photos imported into lightroom classic
remain on a local hard drive.
Lightroom classic actually requires
that photos reside on a hard drive.
They can be on a memory card, USB, or in a cloud.
For this reason,
it's a good idea to have some basic file management skills,
if you want to work with lightroom classic.
For example, you should understand what hard drives are,
how to connect an external drive,
what the folder structure is,
how to navigate folders,
how to create folders,
and how to copy files from a memory card
to a folder on a hard drive.
If you typically put everything important on your desktop,
so you don't lose it,
then lightroom classic
may not be the right application for you.
For comparison, let's take a look at the other application
simply called lightroom.
This is a cloud based application for your Windows
or Mac computer.
Cloud based means that the photos reside in the cloud.
The lightroom application itself runs on your computer.
Lightroom is available for your computer
and your mobile devices.
There's also a lightroom web version.
With lightroom, all of your photos from your mobile devices
and your computer
are automatically uploaded to a cloud server,
and there are some benefits to using lightroom
over lightroom classic
especially if you struggle with keeping track of your files.
With your photos uploaded to a cloud server,
every photo is stored in the same location,
and they are available to you
from wherever you happen to be,
and with your photos in the cloud,
you never have to worry about losing them.
Lightroom also uses smart artificial intelligence
to do image searches.
So you don't have to worry about keywording photos.
Lightroom classic has gone through several name changes
since its introduction in 2007.
This unfortunate naming history
confuses pretty much everyone.
So I thought it might be helpful
to outline the history here.
The first six versions of lightroom
were available with a perpetual license.
In 2015, lightroom CC
became part of the Creative Cloud subscription plan,
and for a while,
you could purchase lightroom six with a perpetual license
or subscribe to lightroom CC through the Creative Cloud.
These two lightrooms were essentially the same application
as lightroom classic today.
But lightroom six
did not have any of the cloud sinking features
found in lightroom CC.
In 2017, Adobe introduced
a completely rebuilt brand new cloud centric application
and named it lightroom CC.
Never mind the fact that lightroom cc was already taken,
and this required a new name
for the original lightroom application,
and that's how it became lightroom classic CC.
Then in 2019, Adobe dropped the CC extension
from all of the Creative Cloud applications,
which leaves us where we are today
with lightroom classic and lightroom.
So the new lightroom application
with the same name as the original lightroom application
is not the original, lightroom classic is the original.
Got it? Lightroom is newer than lightroom classic,
so it does not have
all of the same professional capabilities,
and this may be the number one reason
to use lightroom classic instead of lightroom.
This course covers the essentials for lightroom classic.
The original lightroom.