On the other, at least one of those 2, Develop, is the most important and the meat of Lightroom. On one hand, only 2 out of the 7 modules no longer function. Summary: I was very surprised with the number of options and features left intact with an unsubscribed version of Lightroom Classic. When you close the subscription options notice, Lightroom stays running! With Lightroom Classic, it’s a similar experience when you launch the program a popup dialog box (as shown below) appears but with one major difference compared to Photoshop. Once you close the popup Adobe subscription options dialog box, Photoshop immediately shuts down.

However, unlike Lightroom, there is no functionality in Photoshop. When you launch Photoshop, a message comes up similar to what happens with Lightroom (see Lightroom screenshot below). First, let’s cover what happens with Photoshop post subscription. The Photography plan subscription includes both Photoshop and Lightroom Classic. I wanted to share with you my experience using Lightroom now that my subscription has been canceled since the end of 2020 and what functionality remains. This means that I will be accessing photos in Lightroom for the foreseeable future if I want to make use of over 20 years of past content. Even with products like Avalanche that claim to be able to migrate all your photos and their Lightroom adjustments to other competing packages like Capture One, I will wait and see the reviews first before starting that process (I still may decide to just leave everything in Lightroom).

I don’t plan on migrating my 335K photos in my Lightroom catalog to Capture One anytime soon. I was perfectly happy with Lightroom and Photoshop but with the subscription model for both of these products (I subscribed to the Photographers plan), I didn’t feel that paying a monthly fee in perpetuity was a sustainable financial arrangement for the long term. I will leave my experiences so far with Capture One for another article. After starting with version 1 of Adobe Lightroom back in 2007, I finally made the change to another photo editing software package, Capture One, at the end of December 2020.

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