Challenges include the expense of storing massive photo libraries in the cloud, bandwidth constraints, and workflow challenges for migrating data to the cloud. It's something we're working toward," Mangalick said. Adobe's servers fetch a compressed version of the images stored in the PC's Lightroom catalog then synchronize changes back and forth.Įventually, Adobe could move that catalog to the cloud. The Lightroom Mobile version relies on a master catalog stored on a PC. Lightroom hasn't lost its tether to a particular PC yet, though. And that transition, as illustrated by cloud-computing services such as Google Apps, naturally moves the state of a person's computing operations off a particular device and onto the Internet - email that can be accessed with any sort of device. Moving from licensed software also brings with it a natural transition from software linked to a particular PC to software linked to a subscriber's account, running wherever that subscriber happens to log in. Lightroom, though, is a popular tool among serious photographers, and iPad software that dovetails with it tightly brings something most other software lacks.
Another Lightroom companion app, Photosmith, costs $20, Google's Snapseed is free, VSCO Cam and FX Photo Studio are free before in-app purchases, and there are dozens of other photo programs. On the other hand, paying a one-time fee for mobile photo-editing software doesn't exactly break the bank. One of the ways Adobe could help mollify subscription skeptics is by adding new abilities to the Creative Cloud options without raising prices - and that's exactly what it's done with Lightroom Mobile. Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNETĪdobe announced the Photoshop Photography Program subscription as a limited-term promotion that initially was set to expire in 2013, but it's extended it several times, most recently through the end of May. Photographers can't perform local adjustments to just parts of the image, though, or edit metadata such as captions and keywords. Lightroom Mobile pulls smaller versions of photos in Adobe's lossy-DNG format and offers several editing tools.
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