so far it's looking like if you have all the apps you are stuck at 100gb for photos and another 20gb just for your CC library. I'm planning to call customer service in the morning.
Really wish they'd provided the full suite subscribers with 1tb or least the option to get more.
Um, they do. When you sign up for your plan click the drop-down for how much storage you want and you, too, can pay the exorbitant rate of $10/TB/month.
Honestly, I can't see a reason for anyone to go with this unless they are completely unable or unwilling to do network backups on their own. For less per month than Adobe's 1TB plan, get an Amazon Prime subscription with
unlimited photo backups, and you also happen to get free two-day shipping (often one-day or same-day shipping on larger orders) and access to all of Amazon Prime video etc. For half as much per month, back your data up to iCloud.
The only thing Adobe seems to be "offering" with their exorbitantly-priced service is that their mobile apps also access their cloud storage semi-seamlessly so you can work on an image on your phone with the same tools (ish) as you would on your desktop. That seems like a cool thing, and probably very useful to some people, but $10/month, minimum? I can't see it. And, to use that, you have to used the completely dumbed-down "cloud" version of Lightroom, which is incredibly anemic (
for now).
Here's a comparison of the two products from a very pro-Adobe (makes her money on Lightroom stuff) source:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/lightroom-cc-vs-classic-features/
There is no "early buy-in bonus" here. Adobe will work on getting Lightroom CC up to the Lightroom Classic level of functionality year over year I'm sure, but there's no reason to suffer through that lack of features until the "cloud" version is usable. For crap's sake you can't even zoom past 2:1 or have two catalogs, nor rename your photos from whatever your camera came up with!
Looking down that list, I just can't figure out which customer segment Adobe was trying to go after with the initial "MVP" of their cloud version. Family photographers lose facial recognition, tracked integration with Facebook, all integration with Flickr, all book etc output options, etc, but gain the ability to search for pictures of "water" or "grass" like they can with any other online photos service. Money-first dabblers lose access to all their presets they have bought over the years as well as "export to..." plugins. Sports photographers lose synced edits across multiple photos. Professionals lose, well, pretty much everything. The only thing I can think of is they are targeting people too dumb to notice that "Lightroom CC" they had been using for years is not the same as "Lightroom CC" now and the new version is costing them $10/month more for fewer features.
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Thanks - will look at it deeper then.
From what I’m reading, it seems that some of the catalog can be kept locally rather than pushes to the cloud - am I misunderstanding?
As far as I can tell, all of your images in your singular catalog (no support for multiple catalogs any more!) are synced to the cloud, and you can not pick which ones. There is an area several clicks deep in the individual photo settings which seems to indicate you can turn off cloud syncing, but for me it did absolutely nothing, and of course with the default being "on" and no way to do this for multiple pictures at once obviously Adobe is not expecting you to actually go to 19,900 of your pictures and turn them off cloud syncing so that only 100 of that 20k catalog are synced.
