You can create a hierarchical filing system by storing albums within folders, but you can’t create ’Smart Albums’ based on search criteria in the way you can with Lightroom Classic. Once your photos are imported you can set about organizing them, and here Adobe has chosen a very simple and direct approach. Here, though, your images are uploaded to Adobe’s servers by default – though you can opt to have them stored locally too, via the Preferences panel. In the ‘old’ Lightroom (and Lightroom Classic), you can opt to keep your files where they are and have Lightroom ‘reference’ them in their current position. Lightroom supports JPEGs, TIFF files, PSD (Photoshop) files, and raw files from a huge range of cameras. You click a ‘+’ button in the top-left corner of the screen and choose the folder you want to import from if you insert a memory card, Lightroom will offer to import images from that too. Essentially, there are four phases in the Lightroom workflow: importing, organizing, editing and sharing.

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