Is Lightroom dead?

[Judith Nicholls]

Here's Adobe's FAQ:

Adobe Creative Cloud FAQ

Expand the one that asks "what happens to my photos if I end my membership".

To me that is their policy. The technical implication, I think, may have had some challenges (and I guess could in the future), but the policy seems fairly clear. Your referenced posting appears to discuss Photoshop, not Lightroom. I believe Photoshop, being a destructive editor, just quits working but all edited photos in Photoshop proper are, well, editing, so you do not need it to access your images (ACR-only edits and access through Bridge of course are a bit of a grey area, but I guess are not accessible, though they would themselves work in LR I think with a read-metadata).

Thanks! Yes, that says:

"You'll still have access to all your photos on your local hard drive through Lightroom for the desktop. You can continue to import and organize photos as well as output your edited photos through Export, Publish, Print, Web, or Slideshow. Access to the Develop & Map modules and Lightroom for mobile are not available after your membership ends."

I was looking under Lightroom and maybe the Phototography section. I also did a search but that wouldn't work because who would search for "end my membership"... This is what I understood from the inception. So I guess people for whom this does not work should have been given what this says rather than 7 days to save their stuff...

 

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I am thrilled to see that Adobe still has an interest in Lightroom. I sure would like to see a new and improved release with a "Perpetual" lic.
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