Lightroom Classic | Common Questions

Whether you are a beginner or pro or somewhere in between, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic includes all your essential tools for amazing photography on the desktop. With Lightroom Classic, you have access to powerful one-click tools and advanced controls to make your photos look amazing. Easily organize all your photos on your desktop and show them in a variety of ways.

Get Lightroom Classic as a part of the Creative Cloud Photography plan.

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Lightroom Classic includes all the tools you need for most digital photography tasks in one intuitive solution. It's your go-to app for organizing and enhancing your images, every day. It helps photographers work faster and more efficiently with one image, a set of images, or a large image library. Photoshop is the industry standard in digital image editing, with advanced tools that photographers, graphic designers, and other graphics professionals use when they need complete control to perform detailed, pixel-level editing and work with multilayered files. Get both Lightroom Classic and Photoshop as a part of the Creative Cloud Photography plan.

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Yes. Lightroom Classic on your desktop has the same features and delivers the same best-in-class results no matter which platform you use. Get Lightroom Classic as a part of the Creative Cloud Photography plan.

Lightroom Classic supports most native camera raw file formats in addition to PNG, DNG, TIFF, and JPEG formats. In other words, it supports the formats primarily used in digital cameras. Lightroom Classic also supports the PSD file format for enhanced integration with Photoshop. For a complete list of raw format support by camera make and model, see the Camera Raw page.

Lightroom Classic offers a nondestructive editing environment, which means your original photographs are never changed. Instead, the changes you make to your photographs are stored in metadata as a series of instructions. Whether you’re viewing them onscreen or making prints, Lightroom Classic is simply applying those instructions to the original, untouched photo file. This provides you complete flexibility and control, because any change you apply to an image is 100% reversible at any time.

Lightroom Classic on desktop will continue to launch and allow access to your files after your membership ends. However, the Develop and Map modules are disabled.

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Yes, you can download a trial of Lightroom Classic and other applications in Creative Cloud from the Creative Cloud Desktop apps page.

For enterprise and business, you can purchase Lightroom Classic as part of our enterprise membership. Go to the plans page. 

For individuals, you can purchase Lightroom Classic as part of Creative Cloud photography plan. Go to the Creative Cloud Photography plan page.

Learn how to get started with step-by-step-tutorials as well as comprehensive product support from Adobe and our knowledgeable community. Additional materials can be found on the Lightroom Classic Learn & Support page and Lightroom Classic product page.

You can find web and PDF versions of the Lightroom manual on the Lightroom Classic User Guide page. Please not that some features may not be available in China. 

For assistance, visit Contact Adobe Support page.