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Between other tasks today, I have been updating my desktop Mac Pro Adobe software, Photoshop and Lightroom.
The list of improvements is quite long and will take some time to work through. My most longed for improvement is to Lightroom's Map section, it had become somewhat sluggardly and silly. Every time you moved the map or resized it, the map image was replaced with a black and white 'whole world' projection and a message proclaiming "Offline"! This annoyed me because I am most definitely NOT offline. This has been fixed and the map is now stable, behaves as expected, responsively and without delay or silly messages.
Apart from that I had few complaints about Lr. It will remain to be seen how it will measure up in use. Right now I don't have time for 'testing'. I'm more interested in making a panorama tripod head.
The questionable change as I see is the apparent morph of Lightroom, to an 'online' version. I haven't attempted to download or install that as yet, it seems it revolves around storing all image files on Adobe servers. I have up to 20 Mb storage available included as part of my existing contract, it currently contains two Excel spreadsheets and one image! LOL. The 20Mb can be upgraded to 1Tb at an additional charge.
There is no way I will tolerate Adobe managing the storage of all (or any) of my master image files, no matter how they plead that it's efficient, convenient, cost effective, faster or any other claim. I do store *some* low res, reduced quality, JPEG image files on Flicker, purely for convenience of publishing them on forums such as this.
Other than that my master image files will remain on MY computer where I can manage them as I want them. At the moment I could manage with 1Tb but with my creation of star trails, time lapse and 360ยบ panoramas that could change soon. If I had a D850, overnight!!!
One thing which I am quite excited about is the inclusion of 'Adobe Portfolio', It's a 'free' (no extra charge) facility to create a web based presence, a free website if you like, where you can showcase your images. I have explored it briefly and will take another longer look this evening, you have an exclusive .myportfolio.com URL. My only reservation so far is the apparent lack of caption or image data (brief EXIF) facility, per image, the user can apparently title the sections or classifications.
From what I have seen so far it provides a structured, slick, high quality layout, into which the user can insert their images, unlimited capacity, with seemingly varied layouts and themes.
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Robert.