bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

LR Cloudy has made it to version 3.1. Product naming and name changing aside, it is a lot better and much more fun than when it started.

Laura Shoe is one top online LR instructors, trainers and authors. A couple weeks ago she held an online webinar comparing Classic to Cloudy. In exchange for your email address you can download and watch the session. (320 MB)

This is a link to Laura's newsletter where there is a link to the recording of the session.

https://madmimi.com/p/7a0a101?pact=3411598-156479789-10388622387-c4bb76844e5cadc4f0d90fb9f85947feab908dcd

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

There is no such thing as "Lightroom Cloudy". It is just "Lightroom" and it is a dumbed down version of Lightroom Classic and promotes cloud storage of photographs while providing an easier to use, but limited version of Lightroom.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Adobe doesn't use the word "Cloudy" but it is becoming a more common term that users can use to make it clear what one is being referred to within the collection of five Lightrooms.

There is Lightroom Classic, Lightroom (Cloudy), Lightroom (Web browser), Lightroom (iOS) and Lightroom (Android). Adobe has snuck up on us with an interconnected Lightroom "ecosystem". For me, Classic is first and foremost. I'm having a marvelous, but challenging, adventure learning two of the others.

I think your "dumbed" down critique may be outdated. Adobe continues to build it to a different purpose, that may make it exceptionally "smart"! Classic remains the go to for traditional DSLR shooters wanting disciplined organization and see prints as the final goal. Cloudy seems aimed at the growing group of photographers that use a variety of alternate cameras and may not ever expect to make prints.

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

"Lightroom Cloudy" is a term I first encountered from Victoria Bampton (The Lightroom Queen).

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Awwww .
Sounds like a cute little moniker,
just like Tammy....

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

The problem with these Adobe products is that Adobe changes their name every six months. I think Victoria decided she had to call it something that would stick.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

I confess to stealing it from her.

Victoria and Laura both say Cloudy is getting pretty good and is worth paying attention to. It has useful unique features.