Please share your experience with Adobe in the comments section below and let us know if you are already a Capture One Pro or Affinity Photo user I would love some feedback and perhaps some of the challenges that you have gone through along the way.He told me that he was frustrated with his online Adobe experience, since he could not find the standalone version every search lead him to the Creative Cloud (CC) subscription model, which he did not want to buy.
I immediately thought that he was simply overlooking something, so I decided to give it a quick go on my mobile phone. The very first legitimate option from Adobe was Adobe Store Adobe Lightroom 6 Upgrade, which took me to the Adobe Southeast Asia store The funny thing is, the moment I clicked on Change to change to another store, it took me right back to the Adobe Catalog, which only offers one Photoshop Lightroom version and you guessed it right, the CC version. After about 15 minutes of searching, I gave up Indeed, my friend was right the process of finding an upgrade link turned out to be a nightmare. Both only offered CC and standalone full versions and there was no upgrade anywhere to be found. It is pretty clear that Adobe intentionally makes it very difficult to get a standalone version of Lightroom on its website and it only wants its customers to upgrade to the CC version Only later on, when going through the Adobe catalog, I finally found a way to get to Lightroom 6 standalone and its upgrade version the steps of which I will detail below. Table of Contents How to Find Lightroom 6 Standalone How to Upgrade to Lightroom 6 Will Adobe Release Lightroom 7 Adobe Lightroom Alternatives How to Find Lightroom 6 Standalone If you were to visit the current Adobe Catalog, you would find a number of CC-only versions of products, including Photoshop Lightroom. Adobe Lightroom 6 Trial Link AndAdobe Lightroom 6 Download Trial LinkThere will be only two links on Lightroom the Download trial link and the Buy now link, both of which take you to the Creative Cloud versions of Lightroom, as seen below: The trick here is to type Lightroom 6 in the search dialog thats when Adobe will finally display the Photoshop Lightroom 6 buying option: How to Upgrade to Lightroom 6 From there, clicking the Buy now link will take you to the page where you can buy Lightroom 6 from. Adobe Lightroom 6 License Upgrade UnderHowever, if your goal is to buy only the upgrade (79), you have to select License Upgrade under Type, as shown below: After you do that, the screen will change with some other options and you will see the updated 79 price for the upgrade: Will Adobe Release Lightroom 7 Many of our readers ask us if Adobe will ever release a standalone version of Lightroom 7. So far, Adobe has been promising that unlike Photoshop (the standalone version of which is now dead), Lightroom will not suffer the same fate and that the company will continue releasing standalone versions of Lightroom. However, given that Adobe in the past released Lightroom upgrades in 1-2 year cycles (Lightroom 4 was released in March of 2012, Lightroom 5 was released in June of 2013, Lightroom 6 was released in April of 2015), we have already passed the typical upgrade cycle window for Lightroom at this point. And given the above experience, it is very clear that Adobe wants everyone to be a CC subscriber. To me, all this is an indication of Adobe killing off Lightroom standalone in the future. Perhaps the company will release Lightroom 7 as it promised, but why would they be motivated to, when their stock has been soaring non-stop with the Creative Cloud subscribers Just Google ADBE Stock and take a look at their 5 year graph the company has never been this well off. Considering that Lightroom and Photoshop are the two most popular software packages Adobe offers, the company will do what it can to milk its customers. Adobe Lightroom Alternatives For the past few years I have been exploring other alternatives to replace Lightroom with. So far, the software I am mostly satisfied with for editing has only been Phase Ones Capture One Pro. However, it is not as robust as Lightroom for certain things like file management and it certainly lags behind Lightroom big time when it comes to camera RAW updates. The moment Phase One provides RAW support for my Fuji GFX 50S and the upcoming Nikon D850, I will most likely switch to Capture One permanently. Until then, I have no other viable option other than Lightroom. Once I get caught up with some work later this year, I am hoping to release a few tutorials and howtos on migrating to these two packages.
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