Comment by vaughan | Hacker News Reader

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I use Lightroom Classic (LRC), but recently tried Lightroom CC and its pretty good. I can sync an album from LRC to LRCC, and then can share the album instantly online - so friends/family can see the RAW quality photos. When I make some edits or want to adjust the album - it all syncs automatically.

For me this is the perfect combo/workflow and I'm happy to pay the subscription. LRCC has some bugs and the gallery view could be better though.

The best thing is that I manage the photo files and folder structure locally with LRC, and can back them up easily, and maintain a good archive without having to sync everything.

I found Apple Photos way of taking full control over your photos super painful. The app is terrible and some tasks are so inefficient. Changing your primary photo library to another disk for example will take days - unless you have an SSD. This is absurd. The library is one folder called `Photos.photolibrary`, but the app seems to need to read every single file. And so many other issues too.

The problem with CC is if you're storing a lot of RAW photos, you'll run out of cloud storage within a year. I started off going this route and now I feel stuck.

Yeah. I have 100K photos which I've done some pruning of but I really don't want to lock myself into having to pay Adobe for sync space. I believe Lightroom Classic also still has some organizational features that haven't been brought forward yet. For the most part, I'm content with working on my photos on my desktop system. I don't feel a lot of need to have everything synced everywhere.

I only use CC for albums I want to share. LRC will always be my source of truth. The cool part of the workflow, is you can just tag photos you want to share in LRC, and then they sync and they're in the cloud for people to view at max resolution.

Although the gallery feature of CC is a bit buggy. A better flow might be to sync an album to Dropbox - but syncing plugins are always unreliable I find.

I use Flickr for sharing and just publish them there directly from Lightroom.

So I am only using CC for sharing albums which is the sweet spot.

I just sync one album of photos I want to share to CC. LRC stores every photo I have ever took on a 10TB WD MyBook.

I'm not sure how well CC syncs changes back to LRC though which could be a problem.

Only a year! Try a day or two. Their base subscription gives 20GiB AFAICT. Yesterday I went birding, and got 13.8GiB of RAW files, AFTER deleting out-of-focus or mis-exposed shots. I started with ~500 photos, after that pruning I've got 240. Each one is ~60MiB, since I've got a 60.2MP camera (Sony α7Riv). File size is definitely a disadvantage of such high-resolution cameras.

When Lightroom CC first came out it had _very_ few features compared to Lightroom Classic. I don't need the presentation tools, but have the develop and organization features caught up at all?

I don't think so, still feels primitive.

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