I spend a fair amount of time on various forums, blogs, Facebook groups, and even talking to people face to face, and see the same confusing conversations happen over and over again. The main point of this mini-rant is to help anyone seeking assistance with a Lightroom family product question to get that help as easily as possible. However, due to all of this history and product name evolution, just saying “Lightroom” alone begs the further clarifying question of, “which version of Lightroom are you using?” Finding the Version Number Now, a month after Adobe dropped the “CC” bit from the names of both Lightroom products because there is no longer a perpetual license version to differentiate from, we are left with “Lightroom Classic” and “Lightroom”. Referring to your Lightroom software as “Lightroom CC” got a bit more complicated. Oh, and what we knew as “Lightroom Mobile” was now going to be called “Lightroom CC” and we gained Mac and Windows versions to go along with the existing iOS and Android versions, and an “ecosystem” was born. Then October of 2017 came along and what we knew as “Lightroom CC 2015” became “Lightroom Classic CC”, and we learned that Lightroom 6 was the last version available through a perpetual license. Those were also the good old days when they also displayed the version number on the splash screen (how quaint).
While there were a few different products in the Lightroom family, they each did have a unique name, so it wasn’t too hard to have a discussion about which one you were using. During that period of time we also had a product called Lightroom Mobile for iOS and Android which could sync with Lightroom CC 2015. Over the next couple of years Lightroom CC 2015 did gain a couple of new features, but on the whole it was the same program as Lightroom 6.
Evolving NamesĢ015 is the year Adobe released Lightroom 6, available through a perpetual license, and Lightroom CC 2015, the same product available through a Creative Cloud subscription. A good percentage of conversations still begin with the questioner stating something like, “I have LR CC” which has meant a few different things over the years. Just about every conversation I have with fellow Lightroom users involves a bit of back and forth out of the gate to ensure we are on the same page about which product they are using. Answering Lightroom Help Desk questions for KelbyOne has gotten more challenging since Adobe dropped the “CC” from the names of all Lightroom products last month.
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