

Why not just call it Lightroom Jurassic? Recycle its binary bones into fuel for software better adapted to the post-PC era. After all, it was the new app that took the Lightroom name the old version received a tailpiece that all but destined it for wherever legacy software goes to die.

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Lightroom CC, by comparison, looked modern and streamlined, with a renewed focus on the simple thing that gave it reason to exist at all: Your photographs.Īdobe continues to update Lightroom Classic, but there was a general feeling that day at MAX that the company was gently trying to corral users toward Lightroom CC. Sure, other photographers no doubt had uses for those other modules, but Lightroom Classic was foremost an image organization and editing tool - one that had grown fat and slow in its old age.

The Develop and Library modules were merged into one, and you could begin editing a photo simply by clicking (or tapping) on the editing controls button, without having to reload the image in a new module. Gone was the module-based interface that tried to force users into a linear workflow - and with it, gone were five modules that I never used at all: Map, Book, Slideshow, Print, and Web. Here was the modern user experience photographers had long deserved. It was time to evolve, and here before me, finally, was a new Lightroom, completely rebuilt from the ground up. The new app took the Lightroom name the original received a tailpiece that destined it for where legacy software goes to die.
