Innershield1

I am in a area where internet is very expensive. I have Photoshop and would like to know how many GBs do I need to do PP. No video, stills only. Rodeo, landscape, social photos. Have D810 and others, like to shoot RAW if it doesn't affect amount of GBs. Thanks

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Hmmm. I never thought about the amount of traffic for cloud processing.
Would be interesting to hear.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Don't you just download the program once and then process on you own at-home computer? If so, the Internet is irrelevant once you have the program.

Innershield1

That's an option I didn't consider. I have the monthly plan on my home Mac which I can access from anywhere with internet service. I was curious just how much GBs do I need to accomplish that.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

I think 12 to 15 GB would do it. With that, you can stream Netflix without buffer lag. Especially if you only have a couple devices on your end using WiFi.

rond-photography Loc: Connecticut

Not clear if you just want to subscribe to PS and use it or use a cloud based (meaning where everything you do is done in the cloud).

One common misunderstanding of PS CC is that you need internet to run it. No. You need it to register, download, and install it. Once you have it on your computer (laptop or desktop) you can run it mostly without an internet connection. I understand that you need to periodically (once a month or more) be connected so the PS CC app on your computer can check for updates, verify that your subscription is up to date, etc., but you do not need internet to edit photos.

If you are storing all your photos in the cloud (which is an option you do not need to exercise) you will, in that case, need the active connection.

I have been using PS CC for about 4 years now and have often used LightRoom or PS where I have no connection, with no issues.

tomad Loc: North Carolina

You don't need the internet at all for post processing. You can do that on a stand alone computer. Memory in your computer and processing speed are the only dependencies.

FvS Loc: Netherlands

https://www.gimp.org/ , This is a free program and you can do a lot of editing all for free with it, no internet needed ( just for downloading the program you need it )

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

I shoot everything RAW too. You do not need any cloud storage to use Photoshop CC or Lightroom Classic CC. In fact, you don't even need cloud storage for Lightroom CC, although Adobe would love for you to pay them to use it. I shoot full frame RAW too and in fact refuse to use cloud storage because of control issues. For safety, you need three backups, one of which is off site. Hard drives are cheap. I have a 5Tb backup drive along with a Drobo (RAID) that contains up to five hot swappable drives. I swap out one of the drives in the Drobo, which is kept in my safe deposit box at the bank, with another drive at least once a week. I control everything and I don't pay any monthly fees because my bank provides me a free the safe deposit box.

Innershield1

Because I have access to PS on a monthly basis, are you saying I can download the program w/o further cost??

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

You have to consider that there are (or at least have been so far) fairly frequent updates to the programs...each month or so for more than one program per month. These downloads can each be fairly significant in size. But you could plan for them and have them come down overnight.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

No, you subscribe, download and install them, then once a month you pay your $9.99 and it stays active-you need to be on line for a short time for Adobe's servers to give PS the commands to keep working and check for updates which are included in the $9.99 monthly fee. The rest of the time you can be off line. If you end your subscription you can still access your images but none of the editing etc will work.
You get the Creative Cloud phtography bundle https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html?promoid=CJ132JRD&mv=other
Notice it does include 20GB of cloud storage but I don't use it, I keep all my images on my drive(s) and my external backup drives.

Notice that getting a single app is $20 a month while the Photography bundle is $9.99. In addition to what they list I also got Bridge CC, Extension manager CC and Camera Raw CC.
Note, you will see two versions of Lightroom - Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC - Lightroom Classic CC is the original full program for desktops/laptops, Lightroom CC is what used to be Lightroom Mobile designed for mobile devices like smart phones, tablets etc. Compared to Lightroom Classic it is limited but ties into the cloud for storage and transfer of images between devices.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

The more rams you have the better, but that has nothing to do with the internet, it is the speed that your computer can "give you", when processing. You do not need to be connected to the internet when working in Photoshop. Its a program that resides on your computer, so no connection needed!

BebuLamar

You do not need to connect to the internet to use PS. You do need to connect to the internet once in a while for it to verify your subscription but the amount of data is very little. All the data is on your computer unless you save your files on the cloud which I don't do.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Sounds like a couple of different questions here and some confusion. First, as has been said, you only need to access the internet once a month or so to validate the license if you’re storing your photos locally.

If you chose to store your photos in “the cloud”, then you need the same amount of space there as you do if storing locally. A single raw file can be anywhere from 25-50 MB depending on the particular body, and a JPEG at high quality may average 10 MB per shot or more depending on several factors. If you have decent internet speed, then the
cloud can be an excellent place for your 3rd DR (disaster recovery) copy of your data.

If you store your photos in the cloud, your internet upload speed will determine how long it takes to upload a photo or download one. Your internet speed can be checked using a free ap such as Ookla speed test which you can download and run. The download speed (which is what is advertised) will be substantially faster than the upload speed. Note that the speed will be in mega BITs (Mb) per second while your photo files are in mega BYTES (MB). 1 mega byte (MB) = 8 mega bits (Mb). As a rule of thumb, you can conservatively estimate that your actual upload and download speeds for photos will be 50% of your tested speeds. It may be higher, but that’s probably worst case. You can then calculate how long it will take to upload or download your photos if you use the cloud for storage.

Example: suppose your internet tests at 100 Mb/sec download and 20 Mb/sec upload. Assume you want to upload 100 25 MB raw files (2.5 GB total). If your actual internet upload speed is 10 Mb/sec (50% of 20 Mb upload speed), then it will take you 20 seconds per photo to upload (and 4 seconds per photo to download) or 2,000 seconds (or ~33 minutes) to upload the 2.5 GB and a little over 6 minutes to download the same amount. Your actual performance may be better than 50% of the rated speed, but that is a (very) conservative estimate.

Hope that helps...