“Adobe Lightroom, beloved by photographers as a tool to sift through hundreds of photos and perform light edits, is coming to the iPad,” Jefferson Graham reports for USA Today. “To get there, Lightroom is changing. Since there’s no easy way to get hundreds of photos into a tablet that doesn’t accept USB flash and hard drives, Lightroom is shifting to a new sign-on registration system that syncs the desktop and mobile Lightroom.”
“But to use the free-to-download app this way, you’ll have to pay $9.99 monthly,” Graham reports. “Adobe Lightroom software is still available as a stand-alone computer product for $149.99, says product manager Tom Hogarty. It can continue to be used by anyone on computers who doesn’t want to sign in with an Adobe ID.”
“The mobile app, which comes bundled with access to Photoshop, is part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription plan, a venture started by the software giant in 2012,” Graham reports. “Once signed in, photos you edit on the desktop will be viewable on the iPad, and vice-versa, says Hogarty.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bill” for the heads up.]
Dear Adobe,
We do not want your subscriptionware. We prefer to buy our software and use it for as long as we feel it is useful. Now we have to pay much more in the long run.
Dear Tim Cook,
Please buy Adobe ASAP!
should be part of our other subscription – why is it different and more $ – – gouging that is… Abuse!
It is part of your creative cloud subscription
Hang on if Apple makes it difficult to use a standalone product on the iPad and this is the only practical way then on this occasion I’m not sure what choice they had, at least there is the option now for those who use it or wish to and in the process makes the iPad a better option for photographers who otherwise will go to an alternative platform.
10 reasons (per month) NOT to use LightRoom.
Apple could just bundle a free copy of Aperture with every pro Mac.
Free and Apple don’t belong in the same sentence.
Except for the last two operating systems…
Funny, I’ve currently got over 6000 photos on my iPad, and those got there directly from my camera’s SD card, the same way that anyone else can get photos onto an iPad: using the card reader that Apple conveniently sell.
This ‘rental’ system, set up allegedly because people “can’t get hundreds of photos onto an iPad” is bogus, just an excuse to drain ten bucks a month out of photographer’s pockets.
I wouldn’t pay for any kind of subscription.
Subscription Software = No SALE.
Have a nice day Adobe. 😛
It’s quite predictable that there’d be ‘no thanks’ comments, but let’s see if you can think outside the box here for a minute.
I submit that Adobe’s stupid subscription model -which I also abhor- is a result of Apple ceding the creative software market through laziness (Aperture) blindness (not buying Pixelmator) or arrogance (FCPX).
With strong competition the Adobes of this world are singularly constrained from dumb initiatives like software subscription. The market won’t allow it. In the creative space Adobe has no such foe, so feel quite at liberty to foist CC on us all.
Thank Apple for this latest offense.
not doing subscription period.
I do not wish to rent my software- nor do I want freeware laced with ads.
I will BUY my AD-FREE software, thank you.
Can someone explain what Aperture does that iPhoto does not? I have 34,000 photos in my iPhoto library, and I get a fair amount of usability out of it.
So– what I missing!?
Meant to say Lightroom, not Aperture. Damn my short-term memory!
There’s a big difference in the image processing capabilities of the two programs. iPhoto does a great job within its function set but Lightroom is much farther ahead in providing tools to process images in many more ways. I’ve been using Lightroom for years but will not “rent” the program. I’ll switch to Aperture first.
I have the $9.99/month Adobe deal on my Mac for Photoshop, Lightroom and Bridge and consider it a pretty good deal. Back when you could buy PS it was well over $500, it would take a lot of months to get this much use and by then it would need upgrading. Doubt I’d want to do this type work on my iPad, sounds like more work to me.
I just took a peek at the ‘reviews’ for MS Office on iPad. Obviously the angry people who thought it was ‘Free’ let their voice be known. I see much of the same here.
What’s the business model if Adobe/MSFT aren’t allowed to charge actual money for these world class software suites.
You’re more than welcome to use the excellent iWork suite (as I do), but really, what’s in it for 3rd party software companies?
I will NEVER put Lightroom on my iPads…yeah..multiple. I own it for the Mac Pro and while I know it has some lovely tools…frankly I never use it. Aperture works very well…Adobe now truly sucks ass so they are forced to go to a model where people pay them indefinitely. I won’t pay for it and wouldn’t even if I made a million bucks a photo. I am opposed to the business model and constantly convoluted crap they foist on the public. They used to be a fine company…they really did…but now they’ve mutated into a grotesque idea of what a software company should be.