Adobe obviously considers that the Classic version is for old stagers (that’s me). Included in the subscription is what Adobe call Lightroom Classic – the latest version of what I had before – and Lightroom which is cloud-based. So, to update my Lightroom and Photoshop to the latest editions I would have to pay Adobe A$12 (£9.98, $9.99) per month 1. The option of purchasing the software outright was discontinued at that time.

However, about six years ago, Adobe changed their Lightroom business model and introduced what they named Creative Cloud – which incorporates Lightroom and Photoshop – in a subscription model based on a monthly fee. Until recently, I was using Lightroom 5 which I had purchased years ago and which was running very satisfactorily on my nine-year-old Mac. Over the years, I have built up my expertise in using Lightroom through a mixture of online and physical courses and a lot of hands-on user experience. Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop became my go-to photo processing and cataloguing software about 16 years ago.

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