SmugMug and Adobe Lightroom: Better together.
Lightroom is the app of choice for editing your photos with ease. SmugMug is the app of choice to store, organize, share, and sell those photos. With our extensions, they’re a perfect match.
Lightroom Classic versus Lightroom: Which version is right for me?
Adobe offers two versions of their best-selling editing app: Lightroom Classic and Lightroom (also known as Lightroom Creative Cloud or Lightroom CC). What’s the difference? Primarily, where you want your work to live and how involved your editing process is.
Lightroom Classic lives on your desktop, uses your personal preferred storage method, and comes with the comprehensive suite of editing tools you’d expect from a desktop-based editing app.
Its cloud-based counterpart, Lightroom CC, is more streamlined editing-wise but offers more automatic features like tagging and intelligent search, too. It’s also available for desktop, mobile, and web.
Here’s a handy chart to compare:
Lightroom Classic
Lightroom CC
Where it works
Desktop only
Desktop, mobile, web
File storage
Local hard drive
Cloud
File backup
None
Automatic
Editing tools
Comprehensive
Streamlined
Organization
Manual
Automatic tagging, intelligent search
Streamline your workflow with SmugMug’s Lightroom extensions.
Like Adobe Lightroom, SmugMug’s Lightroom extensions operate differently depending on your editing app of choice. Wanna see for yourself?
Lightroom Classic
Our Lightroom Classic plug-in lets you fully integrate your editing, storage, and organization into one convenient program. Upload and organize your images, fully customize your folders and albums, and even create watermarks and quick settings right from within Lightroom. Installation takes a few steps, but we’ve got a quick and easy guide on our support page.
Lightroom Creative Cloud
Our connector for Lightroom Creative Cloud offers a streamlined experience that keeps your Lightroom and your SmugMug in sync. Access your SmugMug from the Lightroom desktop app with a click, and any changes made on SmugMug will be synced automatically. You can also upload, replace images, change album settings, and more. Installation is a snap—check our support page for details.
Your photos deserve only the best.
Subscribe to SmugMug for your photo storage, sharing, and selling needs and get an exclusive 25% discount on your editing apps through Adobe Creative Cloud.
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