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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC & Mobile (CC) Features
As well as performance updates and tool enhancements, Adobe has changed the name of its popular desktop application so instead of having a number '7' after its name, you'll now know it as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC. The name change just groups the Mac and Windows version under one umbrella with the cloud version of the software which is known as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC. For those who prefer to save things locally don't worry; the name change doesn't mean you suddenly have to use the cloud, like you do with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC, you can still create folders and manage things on your own computer.

There are a few tools available in the Classic version that the mobile app doesn't have, something we'll be talking about further into the review.

An important note for those using Lightroom 6, new camera support for this will stop at the end of the year and from now on, Lightroom won't be available with the old-style 'perpetual licence' where you made a one-off payment and away you went.

For those who haven't used Lightroom before, it's an image cataloguing programme that you can also use to make photo edits. It's also designed to be used alongside software that's specifically designed for photo editing such as Photoshop (hence why they're packaged together under the photography plan) so if you find you can't edit an image how you want to in Lightroom, you can move it into software that's designed to handle more complicated edits.

You start by importing your photos into the Lightroom library which you can then sort, edit and export. We actually have an introduction to the Lightroom workspace and a guide on importing photos which will explain things in more detail if you've not used the software before.

We've briefly mentioned the mobile version of Lightroom which is available on both Android and iOS and even though this version lacks some of the tools found in 'Classic' and 'CC', they're still really nifty apps for editing on the go. Plus, everything is connected via the Cloud (what isn't nowadays) so your work is available across all devices but you can also work offline should you be in a location without WiFi.

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