Obviously, image files are very large these days, so the difference between 20GB of storage on the standard Photography plan and 1TB on the Lightroom plan might make a difference to you. All of your images imported into either of these programs are automatically uploaded to the cloud storage to enable you to access them across devices.

Basic editing of photos for sharing on social mediaĬloud Storage is only of any real importance if you are using Lightroom Mobile or the cloud-based version of Lightroom.

This is not that great, but is a useful addition if you are editing on the go, particularly with images taken on your phone. Lightroom Mobile is a specific version of Lightroom for Android and Apple.

For easy sharing of your images across the Internet.

For sharing editing across phone and desktop.

For editing photos taken on your phone thanks to the sync with Lightroom Mobile.

This means that you can take a photo on your phone and start editing it, then finish your editing on your computer. But it does have the advantage of syncing to Lightroom Mobile, which Lightroom Classic does not do. Most serious photographers do not use this, as it is underpowered compared to the more fully featured Lightroom Classic.

Lightroom (Cloud Version) is a more basic version of Lightroom Classic.

Lightroom classic price