![]() Where Capture One gives you much of the same control in a different layout, Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8 (with its engine output) feels like it’s trying to appeal more to photographers who have no idea how to shoot and instead want to spend all day and night in an editing suite. And while the RAW editor in Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8 feels like it is more powerful than ever as Adobe has begun to realize that HSL is a better way to edit than using the basic adjustments, something about it just feels off. Where exporting 25 images at 3000 pixels on the long side in Lightroom may take the equivalent of a few sips of tea, Capture One still does it faster while also giving me a better RAW editor. It is now faster for sure, but it still isn’t catching up to Capture One. Where Adobe Lightroom has improved quite a bit is in the export process of files. More files from various cameras were added in later on. Then I brought in RAW files from the new Canon EOS R into the program and saw how effective Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8 can be when it comes to editing those files. I wanted to give Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8 as many advantages as I could. To begin, what I did was started up Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8 with a brand new catalog. But what about other features like let’s say finding a way to let photojournalists who shoot both photos and videos to be able to do quick edits to the video clips that Lightroom can render? Or why not do more to help portrait photographers with better retouching tools? Ease of Use HDR Panoramic Merge? Depth Mask? Okay, that’s cool. And as you can tell, many of those changes (besides the new camera support) are pretty useless to many of us as photographers. With Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8, all the important and big changes are in the lead image for this review. Not sure how I’d use Depth Range Masking. ![]() I didn’t optimize my previous one, but even if I did it would be very clunky still. To be clear, I started a brand new catalog to do this review.Works fastest without Presets, which is a major bummer for any photographer who really wants to work with presets.Adobe is trying to get photographers to work faster but I still feel like this slows us down.My computer was designed to edit and render 8K video footage and this is the loudest I’ve ever heard the fans go since playing video games on this computer.For Landscapes and such, I genuinely think that it makes more sense to use Capture One due to the better RAW file rendering.Panoramic HDR is cool, but for a photographer that doesn’t use this feature, who cares?.Improvements in RAW file renderings for sure but it still doesn’t feel as powerful as C1.But even so, it’s very slow in comparison to Capture One. This is the fastest I’ve seen it since before Lightroom Classic CC and even before Creative Cloud. Capture One has never sponsored the Phoblographer at all instead I say all of this due to my own experiences, frustrations and for what I’ve implemented as a standard amongst our staffers. At the same time, realizing that this isn’t going to help you get images out faster and it won’t give you much of what Capture One Pro has been delivering for years now. Despite the fact that the Phoblographer partially came up on social media, I’ve never been one to want to willingly engage in toxic discourse and to instead look for solutions. To that end, if you don’t have a business and you’d just like to spend more time on forums, Facebook groups and your most private Instagram pods complaining about it amongst yourself, then please do. But I’m going to stand very strongly by my next statement: I think that any photographer that continues to use Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8 on the regular is seriously doing themselves a massive injustice and genuinely doesn’t care about the livelihood of their own business–and that goes for whether you’re a professional photographer, influencer, or a blogger/journalist like I am. I’m going to begin this review by stating that during my review period for Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8, I gave the program every single advantage that it could truly have. With today’s update of Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 8, photographers are getting more of the same.
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