From the course: Learning the Lightroom Ecosystem

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Lightroom Classic import and sync setup

Lightroom Classic import and sync setup

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Lightroom Classic import and sync setup

- [Theresa] Lightroom's ecosystem requires being signed in to a Creative Cloud account, so I like to check my Creative Cloud desktop app first to make sure that I'm signed in. If I click on my avatar in the upper right-hand corner here, we'll see that I'm signed in to my account. And from the Creative Cloud desktop app, I can open the Lightroom Classic catalog by clicking on Open here. Right away, we're prompted to start importing some photos because I've opened an empty catalog. And notice that we don't even see the images that were added to Lightroom earlier in the course. Lightroom Classic is the outlier in the Lightroom ecosystem because Lightroom Classic does not upload photos to the cloud. All photos in a Classic catalog must reside on a local hard drive. By default, as we see here, a Classic catalog isn't even connected to the ecosystem. But with your Creative Cloud subscription, it can be. We'll set up this…

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