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Lightroom Classic editing synched Lightroom (cloud version) photos

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thommy

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Hi

I follow a Lightroom/Photoshop group on Facebook and one person in that group stated and warned about using Lightroom Classic to edit synched Lightroom (cloud version) photos.

The following should have been the reason:
Since Lightroom Classic only upload smart previews, so if you edit it, it removes the original from Adobe's server and replaces it with a smart preview dng. Then when you open Lightroom Cloud, it writes, downloads the smart preview version and you make an edit there, then it uploads it and then overwrites the original in classic.

And also this was stated:
And synching is slow because Adobes public API that Lightroom classic uses is unfortunately broken. Will be updated sometime in the future. (official answer).

Is this correct?

I would imagine Adobe letting us know and warn us to use something that would overwrite our originals?

Thanks!

Thommy
 
Hi Thommy

Basically - wrong on all counts! If the original is in the cloud, edits in Classic that are synced to it are reflected in the sync version, but it's still the original in the cloud.

Once Classic has an original, it isn't replaced with a Smart Preview from the cloud either - this is incorrect.

The sync to Classic workflow isn't an official Adobe supported one, but more find it works satisfactorily.
 
Paul, by sync to classic do you mean syncing photos to Classic from Lr on iPad/iPhone etc? I only ask as occasionally I take shots with my phone and sync them back to Classic.
 
Paul, by sync to classic do you mean syncing photos to Classic from Lr on iPad/iPhone etc? I only ask as occasionally I take shots with my phone and sync them back to Classic.
Exactly so. The full res photo taken on your iPhone goes up to the cloud full res, and syncs down the full res photo o Classic.
 
Thanks, Paul. Going that way round - does it eat up cloud storage? I know syncing from LrC does not.
 
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