Lightroom

The younger brother of Lightroom Classic is named simply Lightroom. It's all about editing photographs without relying on copies stored on the machine we are currently using. It's about working on the same sets of photos on a different device. Lightroom is a more sleek but stripped-down version of Lightroom Classic, missing many features that Lightroom Classic includes as standard, but it also consists of a few nifty tricks that Lightroom Classic can't do. As a cloud-based service, most of its functionality relies on an internet connection.

Figure 10.7 – Lightroom

The basis of Lightroom's flexibility works as follows – we create a collection in Lightroom Classic and choose for it to sync. Syncing can be done by either selecting the Sync with Lightroom option when creating a collection or, later, by checking the Click to sync this Collection with Lightroom box. We can find this box next to the collection name in the...