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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: dreed on April 21, 2015, 06:00:13 pm

Title: LR6: try CC or buy standalone?
Post by: dreed on April 21, 2015, 06:00:13 pm: It would seem that there are now only two options: try the creative cloud version or buy the non CC version.

Am I missing anything?
Title: Re: LR6: try CC or buy standalone?
Post by: FredT on April 21, 2015, 06:07:09 pm: Quote from: dreed on April 21, 2015, 06:00:13 pm
It would seem that there are now only two options: try the creative cloud version or buy the non CC version.

Am I missing anything?
It's the same program. You can use the CC trial to download it then run it standalone.
Title: Re: LR6: try CC or buy standalone?
Post by: luxborealis on April 21, 2015, 07:49:38 pm: Quote from: dreed on April 21, 2015, 06:00:13 pm
It would seem that there are now only two options: try the creative cloud version or buy the non CC version.

Am I missing anything?

Unless I'm missing something, nothing really has changed as LR was available as part of CC or standalone even previous to today.
Title: Re: LR6: try CC or buy standalone?
Post by: ButchM on April 21, 2015, 07:56:56 pm: Quote from: dreed on April 21, 2015, 06:00:13 pm
It would seem that there are now only two options: try the creative cloud version or buy the non CC version.

Am I missing anything?

Wasn't that always the situation since the introduction of CC?
Title: Re: LR6: try CC or buy standalone?
Post by: FredT on April 21, 2015, 08:08:41 pm: Quote from: ButchM on April 21, 2015, 07:56:56 pm
Wasn't that always the situation since the introduction of CC?
I think that perhaps he was saying that he could get a trial of LR CC, but to get LR standalone would have to purchase. I tried to point out that they are the same thing and that the CC trial give you a standalone version of the program.
Title: Re: LR6: try CC or buy standalone?
Post by: dreed on April 21, 2015, 09:58:13 pm: To "Try" you need to use the CC version.

However the CC downloader is unable to use things like corporate internet proxies that require usernames and passwords or NLTM authentication.

Why do companies insist on doing their own downloaders rather than just providing URLs that I can feed to a browser?

Sigh.
Title: Re: LR6: try CC or buy standalone?
Post by: citro on April 22, 2015, 02:57:07 am: Quote from: dreed on April 21, 2015, 09:58:13 pm

Why do companies insist on doing their own downloaders rather than just providing URLs that I can feed to a browser?

Sigh.
Because piracy and license control.
Title: Re: LR6: try CC or buy standalone?
Post by: keithrsmith on April 22, 2015, 03:01:04 am: Why do companies insist on doing their own downloaders rather than just providing URLs that I can feed to a browser?

Sigh.

Adobe does

http://prodesigntools.com/tag/ddl

Keith
Title: Re: LR6: try CC or buy standalone?
Post by: James R on April 22, 2015, 03:43:46 am: The reason for CC depends on how Adobe integrates it into its Cloud. CC would be the better deal if its engine is update when ACR is updated, and, new or improved features are add as developed, rather than making us wait for a major upgrade. This would create a lag between LR6 and LR CC, much like the current lag between ACR upgrades and LR 5 updates.