Why I dumped Lightroom CC and went back to Lightroom Classic

Lightroom Classic vs Lightroom CC
(Image credit: Rod Lawton/Digital Camera World)

Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic have an uneasy relationship. Lightroom CC is Adobe’s ‘web first’ version of Lightroom where all your images are stored in the cloud and available everywhere on any device. Lightroom Classic is the traditional ‘desktop first’ version Lightroom, the one that most people know.

Fujifilm GFX 100 is a great camera. Trouble is, a 16-bit TIFF from one of these (or a PSD) is over 600MB, and that's without any extra layers. That's when cloud storage starts to become expensive... and you might have to download it to work on it too. (Image credit: Fujifilm)

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Rod Lawton
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Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. Before that he has been technique editor on N-Photo, Head of Testing for the photography division and Camera Channel editor on TechRadar, as well as contributing to many other publications. He has been writing about photography technique, photo editing and digital cameras since they first appeared, and before that began his career writing about film photography. He has used and reviewed practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium format cameras, together with lenses, tripods, gimbals, light meters, camera bags and more. Rod has his own camera gear blog at fotovolo.com but also writes about photo-editing applications and techniques at lifeafterphotoshop.com