While you may continue to purchase and use Lightroom 6 with a perpetual license, Adobe will no longer provide updates to the software. Lightroom 6.14 is the last perpetual, standalone version of Lightroom. They announced that this final update was coming all the way back in October, and today's update announcement notes state the facts plainly: To their credit, Adobe isn't hiding this fact. Now, just over a decade later, Adobe announces that it has released the final standalone version of Lightroom.ĭP Review reports: Adobe has released the final standalone Lightroom, version 6.14, adding some bug fixes and camera and lens compatibility, but otherwise using the opportunity to encourage users to jump on the subscription bandwagon. Lightroom has had a beautiful run since that summer in Iceland. The days were 23 hours long, and we would shoot well into 'the night.' Then we'd gather in our makeshift lab to learn how to process and post the images using this new software.Įven though Apple had released Aperture a few months earlier, many predicted that Adobe's product would eventually be the most popular. In August 2006 I was in Iceland with a dozen comrades testing a beta version of Adobe's latest photo application: Lightroom.

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