Purchase the stand-alone perpetual license “Lightroom 6”. This is priced at $149 USD for new users, or $79 USD to upgrade from any prior version (Lightroom 1-5.) Here’s the link to purchase the full and upgrade versions of Lightroom 6. This would be relevant if your interests extend beyond photography to video, graphic design, illustration, etc.)Ģ. Note that you can also subscribe to the Complete Cloud, which includes all other Creative Suite products (inDesign, Illustrator, Premier Pro, etc) as well as other apps, for $49.99/month. I personally think that this plan is a great deal, but I realize that a subscription is not appealing to everyone. If you already are a CC subscriber, you can download the new Lightroom CC 2015 for free. The cost is $9.99 USD/month, and all future updates are included in the price. Subscribe to Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription program, and get “Lightroom CC 2015”. The most cost-effective version for photographers is the CC Photography Program, which includes Lightroom, Photoshop, and unlimited syncing of photos from Lightroom to Lightroom mobile for mobile devices, and to Lightroom web.

There Are Two Ways You Can Obtain the New (2015) Version of Lightroomġ. (Adobe took the old “Lightroom CC’ name and put it on this new application.) Please refer to my article, Which Should I Use, Lightroom Classic 7, Lightroom CC or Lightroom 6” for a comparison of these. Now the choice is among the non-subscription Lightroom 6, the subscription Lightroom Classic 7, and the new simplified cloud-based Lightroom CC application.

UPDATE JUNE 2018: This article was written in 2015, when the choice was between the non-subscription Lightroom 6 application and the subscription Lightroom CC 2015.

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