Let me just add that the 2nd generation pencil is very different from the first. It charges by placing it on the edge of the iPad. It has a magnetic attachment. You don’t need to plug it into anything and it doesn’t have a cap to loose.
I have an iPad Pro (2018) and the Apple Pencil (2nd Generation). They are both superb with Lightroom CC.
Don’t listen to the naysayers. The pencil is responsive and easy to use. Charges sitting on top of the iPad. The palm recognition feature on the iPad is excellent.
To use the cliche, it just works. It makes Lightroom work a real pleasure. Can’t wait for photoshop in 2019.
Classic CC on your desktop machine will sync to the cloud. It just depends on how much cloud storage you have purchased from Adobe. The originals stay on your hard drive.
Mobile cc resides on your mobile device and providing you have an account and the above mentioned storage, it will show all your images. They are in preview form unless you choose to download them to edit. Once edited you can the choose to sync back to the cloud so that you are not having too much data as local storage.
I suggest getting either the Lightroom Queen or Laura Shoe’s books (physical or ebooks) which explain we’ll.
When I’ve had questions for Adobe I’ve used their online chat which has always worked well and their staff have been really helpful.
Either Lightroom CC or Affinity Photo. They are both fully featured.
It’s been said before, but have three backups.
1. To the Cloud. iCloud, Amazon, Adobe Cloud etc. You can use this for day to day transfer of images between devices so everything is constantly in sync (computer, phone, tablet etc).
2. To local storage - a removable drive. So you have complete control of your images should Apple, Amazon, Google or Adobe go belly up. Not impossible, but very unlikely.
3. Somewhere else. This could be in a bank vault (that’s a bit 1990s to be frank) or to a service like Backblaze or Carbonite. This is for archive storage or true back up.
It’s all your choice. My personal comment is this is 2018 not 1990, so make use of the technology around you. Nobody but the UKs National Health Service is using Fax machines these days, there are better ways of operating. Same applies to managing data.
What does this have to do with photography?
Regrettably there will always be the Mac haters, just as the Canon v Nikon, Ford v GM etc., etc.
I’ve used both PCs and Macs. In my business life I found PCs needed to be replaced every 18 months or so, Macs appear to run on and on.
Personally I have a Mac laptop that has travelled all over the worLtd since 2004 and is still going strong. I have an iMac that’s been going strong since 2011 and still performs brilliantly. Plus iPads (3 since the first model) that are all still performing, plus iPhones that have never had a problem.
My wife’s series of Dell PCs have had multiple problems and the constant updates are a pain.
I am very pro Apple, but only because they just work, keep going and are simple to work and understand. Same way as I’m pro Canon, Honda and Mercedes. Not to say that things don’t go wrong, I’m sure they do, but my loyalty to brands is as a result of experience.
Affinity Photo, Lightroom Mobile and the native apple Photos app all handle RAW files. Affinity is very good and offers a full range of abilities. LR is also good.
Acronyms tend to be used either as short hand to simplify, but more often by people who wish to appear to be ‘in the know’ or feel they are part of a special group. It’s similar to people who use certain terms to appear to be very clever, for example using the term ‘glass’ instead of lens. Similarly referring to eBay as ‘evil bay’.
Used once it may be amusing, twice gets tedious and after that pretentious.
I have a mid 2011 iMac 27” and upgraded to High Sierra as soon as it came out. No problems at all.
Having said that, I like to keep all my operating systems and programs up to date. I feel safer with the latest security updates and appreciate the upgrades.
No problems at all. Installed perfectly and easily on my mid 2011 iMac 27”.
Victoria Bampton provides a free ebook with her physical book and provides free updates to that ebook.
I’d second the suggestion about Victoria Bampton.