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Migrate to Cloud App Without Develop History? Why?

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I must be missing something crucial: why would anyone want to migrate to Adobe Lightroom when the result is to give up all their editing work?

I've been using LR 1-6 forever, and have grown my catalog to 21k with extensive Develop edits. In investing in a shiny new M3 machine I imagined capitulating to the $9.99/mo subscription, but didn't imagine it would eviscerate my work, as it appears to. I've migrated 'successfully' from LR6.14 running on my 2013 Intel iMac to the new hardware and subscription platform only to realize I should have paid greater attention to the product disclosure that develop history does not migrate, and now I'm really puzzled as to how this can actually even be a product - starting over is a non-starter. Or is it a teaser meant to push me to 'upgrade' further to the $19.99/m Photography subscription?

What am I missing? I'm still in Trial so no major $$ loss in bailing out, but I understand I cannot run LR6 (apparently 32-bit) on my M3 even with the help of Rosetta, so I'm not really seeing another path forward yet.

Thanks.
 
You're missing two things:

1. The basic Photography Plan is only $9.99 per month, same as the Lightroom plan that you've chosen. So for the same price you could have Lightroom Classic (the direct descendant of LR1-6), plus Photoshop, and all the Lightroom products, but only 20GB of cloud space. But if you stay with Classic, you wouldn't need cloud space.

2. Many users (including myself) are more than happy to give up the Develop History.....it's certainly not an essential thing for me and many others. It's not giving up our editing work, merely the steps taken to get to the end edited point.
 
While Lightroom Desktop does not remember each history step, you can create versions (Snapshot like) copies of the state of your image development at a point in time . If you want a Color and a B&W version oe a crop for a 4K TV and a crop for an 8X10, you can create versions for each. This is the closest thing that Lightroom Desktop has to a LrC virtual copy.
 
You're missing two things:

1. The basic Photography Plan is only $9.99 per month, same as the Lightroom plan that you've chosen. So for the same price you could have Lightroom Classic (the direct descendant of LR1-6), plus Photoshop, and all the Lightroom products, but only 20GB of cloud space. But if you stay with Classic, you wouldn't need cloud space.
I only see a $20 1T plan (https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/compare-plans.html) - maybe you're grandfathered under a legacy plan?

2. Many users (including myself) are more than happy to give up the Develop History.....it's certainly not an essential thing for me and many others. It's not giving up our editing work, merely the steps taken to get to the end edited point.
I might agree to lose the historic edit steps if the migration somehow brought in edited images but it clearly has not - one doesn't forget those files with big invest of spotting time undusting
 
Have you got the wrong Lightroom subscription?

The program you used before is now called Lightroom Classic and is in the Photography Plan. The program you have installed is called Lightroom (unofficially Lightroom Desktop or Cloudy Lightroom ). I thought they were the same price.
 
I might agree to lose the historic edit steps if the migration somehow brought in edited images but it clearly has not - one doesn't forget those files with big invest of spotting time undusting

Lightroom cloud migration, does migrate the final edited version of images from Classic. I migrated over 30K images from Classic to the cloud and did not lose anything. There are only a few image editing features in Classic which are not available in the cloud eco-system. I forget what they were, but I had never used them in roughly a decade of use of Classic.

Curious, where did you get the impression that images edits are not migrated?

Tim
 
Have you got the wrong Lightroom subscription?

The program you used before is now called Lightroom Classic and is in the Photography Plan. The program you have installed is called Lightroom (unofficially Lightroom Desktop or Cloudy Lightroom ). I thought they were the same price.
Actually, it is officially Lightroom Desktop.
 
Lightroom cloud migration, does migrate the final edited version of images from Classic. I migrated over 30K images from Classic to the cloud and did not lose anything. There are only a few image editing features in Classic which are not available in the cloud eco-system. I forget what they were, but I had never used them in roughly a decade of use of Classic.

Curious, where did you get the impression that images edits are not migrated?

Tim
Hi - I'm comparing the same images in LR6 vs Lightroom and seeing e.g. dust-spotting not carried out, and obvious differences in contrasting and toning. I just realized, however, that its possible I'm premature in my criticism as there is still some sort of cloud operation going on in the background and maybe it hasn't brought in the latest version...
 
Actually, it is officially Lightroom Desktop.
I'm sure you forgive my confusion though, Rikk, not least as I've spent the last few minutes searching for Adobe using "Lightroom Desktop" in places like the Adobe photography plan home page, in the CC App, in splash screens and so on.
 
Hi - I'm comparing the same images in LR6 vs Lightroom and seeing e.g. dust-spotting not carried out, and obvious differences in contrasting and toning. I just realized, however, that its possible I'm premature in my criticism as there is still some sort of cloud operation going on in the background and maybe it hasn't brought in the latest version...
How did you load the images into LrD??

Tim
 
Hi - I'm comparing the same images in LR6 vs Lightroom and seeing e.g. dust-spotting not carried out, and obvious differences in contrasting and toning. I just realized, however, that its possible I'm premature in my criticism as there is still some sort of cloud operation going on in the background and maybe it hasn't brought in the latest version...
One thing that I have noticed in LrC v13 is that images processed in older process versions show up much darker than in earlier versions . I can not fine in Lightroom Desktop even a reference to process version and Lr Desktop v 7.x will be using the same develop process tools as v13. I see the same or similar darker tones in Lr Desktop v7.x as I see in Lightroom Classic v13. Perhaps this explains the differences that you are seeing in comparing LR6 to Lr Desktop.
 
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