What does Adobe ending its cloud services mean for Lightroom?

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 20:02 by Nando Harmsen | 3,733 views | 1 comment

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

With Adobe’s announcement that its cloud services will end on 1 February 2024, a lot of concern has arisen. Especially among photographers who have their photos stored in the cloud. What does this mean for the photos? I’ll give it away: absolutely nothing.

It’s understandable that the end of the cloud services is causing confusion. What about the photos stored in the cloud? I reckon anyone with 20 gigabytes of cloud storage won’t make much use of it.

But if you use Lightroom with 1 terabyte of cloud storage and have all your photos stored there, this message can indeed cause concern. If you don’t want to worry, you should click through and gather more information.

Unfortunately, people often respond to a message straight away without doing any ‘research’. This is especially important when the wording is unclear. And it turns out that anyone using the cloud for Lightroom won’t notice anything. So always click on ‘more information’ if something isn’t clear.

I looked it up again. You soon end up on the following Adobe website, which explains exactly what is being ended. You can read all about it there. But you really do need to read it, because only then will you see the following text:

"Adobe will continue to offer and support cloud storage and synchronisation within Creative Cloud with cloud documents, Creative Cloud Libraries, Lightroom cloud storage and Frame.io cloud storage. This change does not affect these cloud storage solutions."

This means that, as a Lightroom user, you can simply carry on uploading photos to the cloud. Nothing changes. For Lightroom Classic users, this does not apply at all, even if you use cloud storage in that programme.

So there’s no need to worry. And that’s a nice feeling too.

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Nando Harmsen has been photographing for more than 40 years. He specialises in wedding photography and landscape photography. Nando also gives talks, workshops, masterclasses and photo trips, and regularly reviews new and interesting equipment.

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Donald Willemsen wrote on Tuesday 23 January 2024 at 22:30 | reply
'Screaming before you're hit', you know that expression? It happens all too often. nice and easy to make someone else figure things out for you instead of looking for more info yourself.
Same goes for questions about camera settings. Why not first look in the manual yourself or look in the camera's menu? If I wanted to answer the question, I often have to grab the camera myself too to see where something is in the menu. Or look it up in a 1000-page manual. And then I'm still crazy enough to look it up at someone else's request, because I'm not too lazy to help someone else.
Translated from Dutch.

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