loboal

Still new to all this but have learned a lot from all you find people. Thank you! Since I started taking photos in RAW as a lot of you said I should, won't this use up a lot of space in the Lightroom cloud. I bought the $10 version which gives you 20gb. What's that, about 400 RAW photos?
Any ideas besides moving up to $20/month

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Amazon S3. Their mid-tier (infrequent access) is $1.00 per 100GB per month, so $10/month will buy you 1 TB of storage. If you just want an archive and never plan to touch the data except in an emergency, look at S3 Glacier (their lowest tier) which is 1/5 the cost per month. And if you want to use it as working storage, where you read and write files frequently, then choose their top tier which is 2x the cost of infrequent access. BTW, you can move files, folders or your entire data between tiers in real time as your needs change. One Caveat: if you plan to use it that way (real time) you’ll need fast internet access to fully enjoy it.

I have 300 GB of raw photos (about 10,000 shots) in S3 infrequent access for $3.00/month.

loboal

The $10/month includes Photoshop and Lightroom

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

I do hope you're not relying on the cloud as your primary storage? External drives are cheap, and you can afford to be redundant.

Andy

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Absolutely. NEVER trust the cloud as the only location of your images unless you don't care if you lose them.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Never trust ANY single copy of your images unless you don’t care if you lose them.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

loboal,

Your post suggests your choice is to use the newer (cloud) version Lightroom CC. You may want to have Adobe change your plan unless you also want to use Photoshop and the (disc) Lightroom Classic CC. You may be paying for something you don't want.

Disregarding the traditionalist naysayers (!), there are three Adobe plans aimed at photographers.

The first is $10 a month and has both Lightrooms, Photoshop and a few other features. It comes with 20 gigs of cloud storage.
The second is $20 a month and has all that is included in the first, but with a TB of storage.
The third is $10 a month and has only the cloud Lightroom CC version. It does not have Photoshop or the disk based Lightroom Classic CC. It has a TB of cloud storage.

One TB will handle about 20,000 RAW images or 200,000 JPEGs.

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/compare-plans.html

The third plan is aimed at a workflow we traditional photographers are not used to. It is very much mobile. It is designed around photographers that want to have their work available on any and all devices, tablets, phones and computers they own. We struggled through the quantum leap from film to digital. This new leap to connected processing is equally significant.

ronaldwrightdallas

I didn't see what camera he/she has. 1 terabyte only holds 12,000 of the uncompressed raw files from my camera. (80 mb each) which goes up every couple years.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

If you have a camera that routinely stores 80mb RAW files AND want the unique benefits of (the cloud/mobile) Lightroom CC, you can afford to rent the extra storage.

ronaldwrightdallas

you are probably right on that, but I just have a newish full frame camera. I personally would never (except I did accidently once) compress a raw file out of the camera. I want all of the information I can possible get to start the processing phase of taking a photo. I can build compressed jpg files as needed for internet displays.

did I mention that the cheapest part of taking photos in todays world is the disk space required

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Compress a RAW file? Does the (mobile/cloud) Lightroom CC do that? My RAWs are about 25 mb and I don't see that they are compressed. Am I missing something?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Nikons (and possibly others) will typically store either compressed or uncompressed raw image files (in addition to either 12 or 14 bit).

loboal

Thank you all. Went on Adobe website to check on upgrade and they had upgrade special with Lightroom, Lightroom Cassic and Photoshop with 1TB of storage $15/month which is $5 less than usual. Did it. Again thanks for all the input!

Bill P

Remember this: There is no cloud. All that is as an acronym made up to describe what is really there, and old building full of main frames and storage, and hopefully a lot of AC. Even if they stay in business, and a lot have failed, they are just as apt to have failures as you are.

I keep three portable hard drives and back up all to all three.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

I think you misunderstand “the cloud”. Ever been in an Amazon S3 Data Center? I have (and the servers aren’t “mainframes”), and if you think that’s as reliable as a consumer grade <$100 HD, then I want some of what you’re smoking