bob7fred

Has anyone used the Lightroom app for IPhone? Is it worth the effort to learn, as I haven’t ever used Lightroom?

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

It depends on if you're a cloud/web-centric kind of photographer. I'm not. I use Lightroom Classic every day. It's a great program - suggest you look closely at LR Classic - it can change almost anyone's photographic results for the positive.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I try to avoid processing my photos on my phone. I really prefer the 21” screen on my computer to the 3” screen on my phone.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

If you haven’t ever used Lightroom, why does the mobile phone app make any difference?

usnret Loc: Woodhull Il

As it is, seems one can't purchase LR Classic anymore. All the vendors want to sell you the cloud version including Adobe. I like using the disc version. That way if I lose internet connectivity I can still edit Photos. I'm still doing all my post processing with photoshop but now that I've converted one of my camera bodies to a full IR spectrum I've learned that LR does a much better job of post editing. Converting images to DNG etc. Guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and do the download.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Usnret you don’t have to be connected to the internet to use LR Classic and you don’t have to store your photos in the cloud. It’s entirely up to you, the user.

Also bob7fred is asking about the mobile LR app.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Moreover, Usnret, the Classic software installs local to your machine where your image files and LR catalog reside. All this cloud stuff is to share images wirelessly via a relatively small online store between your mobile devices (if used) and your primary local computer.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

If you're a bleeding edge, live on your phone, think what you see on your phone is good enough to share kind of photographer, yep, the mobile-device based Lightroom App is made for you.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

You’re right that you can’t purchase LR Classic. It’s only available by subscription. But the subscription price is not high. The program needs internet about once a month to check your subscription but you can use it offline most of the time. The classic version is all local, program and data.

usnret Loc: Woodhull Il

I stand corrected. Shoulda read a little deeper into the details!

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

I'll chime in with my usual reply that is usually ignored!!

Many still see "Lightroom" as a single computer program. It once was. That started ending with version 6.14 that you could buy once and on a disk.

It has evolved into a system of applications bundled in the $10 per month Photography Plan that includes several programs and services. There are 5 Lightrooms, Photoshop and a Portfolio. They can all be interconnected. To go beyond the single program to an interconnected bundle of tools, Adobe had to make it a subscription system.

I don't use an iPhone, but do use an Android. Once the options were set up, when I snap a picture on the phone, Adobe's system puts that file into Lightroom Classic on my computer. (It will also be "in" the other Lightrooms too!)

Back to the OP's question....Rather than buy into the Lightroom system, try Snapseed on your phone for image processing. I have a neighbor in my retirement community that has become regarded as the best photographer in the group of 1100 residents. She has never owned a camera and always has the newest iPhone with Snapseed. Her pictures are trite, but the image quality is spectacular. Some will actually pay her for an iPhone flower picture.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Both Lightroom (the former Lightroom Mobile that now works on Macs, Windows PCs, iPhones, iPads, and Android devices) AND Lightroom Classic (the professional desktop version derived from Lightroom 6.14) AND the full version of Photoshop, AND Bridge, are available as a bundle for $9.99/month as one version of the Adobe Photography Plan.

Lightroom CLASSIC is what you want. It is only available via subscription. It is many times more useful than the last standalone version of Lightroom. I've subscribed for five years and love what it does as the HUB of my entire still photography workflow.

You can still work on your images if your Internet goes down momentarily. However, Adobe does have to connect to your computer once a month to verify that your copy of the Photography Plan is still licensed (paid up). Your images can and should be local, on your hard drive. If you use Lightroom (NOT classic), you can share them with your other devices via Adobe Cloud. But you don't have to.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Correction: Create and enable a 'synced' collection within LR Classic and images placed into this collection are shared into your Adobe cloud storage to share back n forth with your mobile devices and the LR 'mobile' software. This is how your can capture and edit images in the field and have those edits / images replicated back to your LR Classic catalog, and vice versa...

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

That works, too... and is probably the best way to work. But it drives some people bonkers to use the two different versions.

I don't use the mobile version at all. I'm content working on my laptop. It's connected to a bunch of outboard drives in the office.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

This is why your $9.99 subscription includes the 20GB cloud storage, by default, as well as all the various flavors of Lightroom software.