We know a lot of you have been waiting for this news, so we’ll get right to it: Lightroom 4 is available right now as part of your Creative Cloud membership. You can download and install it from the Apps & Services page.
The new features in Lightroom are simply fantastic. The team has really found the right balance between powerful controls and an intuitive user experience. Image importing, management, and processing is better than it ever has been. The new video, geolocation, and book publishing tools all point to how quickly Lightroom is responding to the world’s changing technology.
If you have a Creative Cloud membership, this new release is included along with future updates to Lightroom and all our other applications. If you’re not yet a member, all the details are listed on our plans page.
Oh, and if you have purchased any suite or individual Adobe product going back to CS3, you can use our special offer and get your first year of the Creative Cloud for just $29.99 per month. We won’t be running that offer much longer, though.
Thanks again to all of you who have left comments and posted tweets since our launch. Your feedback is incredibly valuable, and we love to hear how we can improve everything we’re building.
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Great news, but it’s inclusion (or not) was very confusing at launch which led to me buying LR4 a few days after creative cloud launch and now I end up with two licenses?
Hi Darren,
If you purchased Lightroom from Adobe within the last 30 days it is possible to get refund. You would just need contact Adobe customer service. This FAQ has answers to common questions related to the Lightroom inclusion with Creative Cloud. http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/lightroom-creative-cloud-faq.html
hmm I just bought both packages: lightroom and the cloud.
Will I get the money back? or 2,3 months free extension?
Only time wil tell….
Hi Wim,
My response to Darren above might apply to you as well/
thanks
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Is there a way to free up my purchased license of LR so I can use it on another machine?
My scenario: desktop with Creative Cloud license & standalone LR license. I would like to get it’s LR to use my CC license so I can install LR on a laptop.
Eric, the LR licence allows you to use Lr on a desktop and a laptop now.
It would be on a 3rd machine.
You can uninstall your standalone Lightroom to free up its license and then just reinstall it there through Adobe Application Manager like other Creative Cloud products, after which you could install the standalone Lightroom again on the 3rd machine.
Thanks for the information. One question, if I have a Photoshop Subscription will Lightroom be included in it?
Hi Choke,
Lightroom is only included with Creative Cloud Membership not with a desktop subscription to Photoshop.
awesome!
What about Creative Cloud Team Ready customers? Will we get access to LR4?
Lightroom 4 is available to Team Ready customers – Like Muse, you have to go through a slightly different process to get a serial number. If you have purchased the Team Ready option through a reseller, contact our volume license customer service department and they can assist getting a Lightroom 4 serial number.
Phone and chat options are available in link below
http://www.adobe.com/support/avl/
So is this include for we Creative Cloud Team Ready customers? Not seeing it yet.
Hi Mark,
See my response to Michael above.
Is there any difference between the one in the cloud and the current desktop version? I already have that and wanted to know if there are any new features that are cloud specific.
If it is the same, I have an enhancement request: Make Lightroom work on the files you have in the cloud as if they are on your hard drive.
Currently the retail version and Creative Cloud version are the same.
I purchased Lightroom 4 more than 30 days ago, and I am a Creative Cloud member. Does this mean I can now put Lightroom on 4 different machines (2 per each license)?
Also, the Creative Cloud offers automatic updates. Do I have to install the Creative Cloud version to get these updates, or will it recognize my current LR4 install and update it, too?
Yes, you could use Lightroom on 4 different machines if you owned it previously.
Currently the retail version and Creative Cloud version are the same.
BRAVO Adobe! I really appreciate everyone who helped get this on the cloud! Where’s the people who said it would take Adobe a year, or that it was about profits? No apologies yet or self-corrections yet?
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I’m not seeing Lr under the Apps while logged into my Creative Cloud subscription. Application Manager updated yesterday and I’m not seeing it there either.
Are you on a computer running Windows XP? Lightroom requires Microsoft® Windows Vista® with Service Pack 2 or Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1
That’s a shame. I have a powerful PC mobile workstation with XP and see no reason to change my operating system yet. Makes me want to return to the Mac world
Now you just need to get the Adobe Application Manager to work so that we can use the new software!
I love Lightroom! But, I haven’t gotten to a point where I need the full Creative Suite. That said, I’d pay $100 per year for a license for the latest version of Lightroom plus 100 Gigabytes of cloud storage for my photo library.
Thinking about “the cloud”, I’d probably also pay an extra $20-30 per year to have my Lightroom library easily pull photos from Apple’s iCloud.
Is there an easy way to upload my photos from LR to Adobe cloud?
Are there plans in the future to require cloud membership to get updates to Photoshop and to Lightroom. Will cloud and regular download versions be different. If so when.
If I have not purchased Lightroom, and cannot install it on my current computer because all I have at the current time is XP Pro (I tried), can I subscribe to LR on-line and use that version of it without it being on a hard drive?
With your Creative Cloud subscription you get Lightroom 4. It does not run on Windows XP so you’ll need to download it and use it on a Windows Vista machine. There is no online or hosted version of Lightroom so you’ll have to download and install it on a supporting platform. Here is the technical specs for LR 4 for your reference: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/tech-specs.edu.html
Lightroom 4 CC is expensive. but useful.
Can’t AAM to provide a LR link and I’m on Mountain Lion, not XP. What gives?
That’s great. thank you so much for the news.
Have I lightroom 4 and Adobe Creative Cloud, since I synchronize them?
Even though Lightroom is part of Creative Cloud, its not meant to store your image library online. See the last section in this FAQ for more info. http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/lightroom-creative-cloud-faq.html
Well, i’ve subscribed to Creative Cloud, I can see LR there but can I find a way to download it.
When i click it from the list of items it just takes me to the Application Manager, where its not listed.
I am running a 64 bit mac with the latest OSX and loads of ram, why isn’t it there?
When I try to download Lr from the Apps & Services page it just opens the Adobe Application Manager, which does not list Lr…. ? How do I download it then?
Me too. I have the full cloud suite and can NEVER see lightroom listed in my application Manager choices. I downloaded the trial by mistake so I could use it till I figured how to get it from the cloud. NO LUCK. Cant figure how to get LR from the cloud. Win 7 version.
I purchased Lightroom right before purchasing Cloud based on the fact it had JUST come out, and did NOT offer Lightroom or a promise of LR in the future, but I only just found out this was inclusive a week or so ago… I feel a bit betrayed and scammed by Adobe for them not letting me know. There is a few hundred dollars I will never see again, and Adobe sits counting this money as if they earned it. Very disappointed…
Yes, I have been waiting for Lightroom to join Creative Cloud like I have been waiting for deep tooth infection so I can have a root canal. Is Creative Cloud now fully accessible from any of my computers I use at any location? The infamous Martin Bailey problem will never occur again?
Will we be forced into buying the next version of LR 5 as part of a “cloud” experience? If we cannot use our applications because of “Cloud” problems, will Adobe accept liabilty?
OK, joking about the last.
@MAddi, the lack of reply to your question is your answer.