Detailed feature comparison between LrC, Lr (Desktop) and ACR?

[sirhawkeye64]

Is there a feature comparison or detailed chart going over the different features for each of these programs? I've sort of adopted the ACR workflow now as I was using LrC for a long time, but with newer releases of LrC I feel it's gotten bogged down a bit with all the additional features and felt that ACR is perhaps a better option for me (plus no importing for Lr Dsektop or ACR/Bridge).

I'm mainly concerned about the processing features / editing features, not things like printing or metadata management or even virtual copies as I'm aware of those differences. I just want to make sure I'm not missing something big (specific to image editing) by moving away from LrC to ACR.

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[Erik Baumgartner]

ACR has some additional functionality that LrC lacks (like creating custom profiles) but they are otherwise pretty much the same software with different user interfaces. Lightroom shouldn’t be any slower than ACR.

 

[Night Pixel]

ACR has some additional functionality that LrC lacks (like creating custom profiles) but they are otherwise pretty much the same software with different user interfaces. Lightroom shouldn’t be any slower than ACR.

Some of the differences that first appeared in ACR have now been released in Lightroom.

 

[sirhawkeye64]

ACR has some additional functionality that LrC lacks (like creating custom profiles) but they are otherwise pretty much the same software with different user interfaces. Lightroom shouldn’t be any slower than ACR.

thanks, I sort of figured that but wanted to check (LR is and it isn't slower). For my needs though the importing and extra layer of complexity seems to be more than I really need since I've typically just recreated the same physical folder structure in LR's collections (which I know can be done "automatically" using the Folders panel) but I don't use the majority of LR that other people use it for (mainly organization, printing, or other things).

 

[sirhawkeye64]

ACR has some additional functionality that LrC lacks (like creating custom profiles) but they are otherwise pretty much the same software with different user interfaces. Lightroom shouldn’t be any slower than ACR.

Some of the differences that first appeared in ACR have now been released in Lightroom.

OK so if anything, from an editing standpoint, ACr should have all the same features as LrC at least, and possibly some additional "beta" features... correct?

 

[Erik Baumgartner]

ACR has some additional functionality that LrC lacks (like creating custom profiles) but they are otherwise pretty much the same software with different user interfaces. Lightroom shouldn’t be any slower than ACR.

Some of the differences that first appeared in ACR have now been released in Lightroom.

New features often appear in ACR first and eventually show up in LR as too, but ACR has some core functionality that I’m pretty sure has not migrated to LR - like the aforementioned custom profile creation (though profiles created in ACR do appear in LR automatically as well).

 

[Erik Baumgartner]

ACR has some additional functionality that LrC lacks (like creating custom profiles) but they are otherwise pretty much the same software with different user interfaces. Lightroom shouldn’t be any slower than ACR.

Some of the differences that first appeared in ACR have now been released in Lightroom.

OK so if anything, from an editing standpoint, ACr should have all the same features as LrC at least, and possibly some additional "beta" features... correct?

Yes.

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