Lightroom/Creative Cloud Question...

I've recently subscribed to the bundle (Lighroom/Ligthroom Classic,Photoshop) and it includes cloud storage. Is there a way to prevent it from uploading my photos to Adobe's cloud? I can't seem to find it if there is.

Hi David, are you syncing your Lightroom Classic catalog of images to Lightroom? If so, that would explain why the app is uploading your images to the cloud. That's Lightroom's native environment.

If that's not the issue, what are the settings in your LrC catalog in Edit > Preferences > Lightroom Sync?

I have no existing catalog, first time Lightroom user. Below are the settings for Lightroom Sync...

Before we get all in the weeds here and, in doing so, don’t answer your questions:

What are you trying to do? Keep images locally and not sync to the cloud? Keep locally but still sync? Keep images in the cloud AND keep images locally and still have them sync (there is a way)? What, precisely, are you trying to accomplish. Then…..

Which of the two apps -LRC, LR, (or LRM which likely came in your bundle) - will be the primary one that you use?

I do the following:
1) ingest ALL images into LRM
2) work on them in LRM
3) they sync to the cloud
4) then open LRC when I’m back at my desktop and “pull the images down” to my locally stored LRC catalog. In this way, all images are stored in the cloud AND the local catalog for LRC.
5) when changes are made anywhere, they are reflected everywhere.

This seems like something you don’t want. But be very clear with what you do want (I.e “I only want to use LRC locally and have all of my images stored locally”)….. then the Gurus on this site will be able to succinctly help you.

Well, I did say... "Is there a way to prevent it from uploading my photos to Adobe's cloud?" ...but let me try it this way...

I want to use Lightroom (classic or otherwise) and possibly Photoshop but not have my photos go anywhere that I don't send them. So that means no automatic uploading to Adobe's servers.

In Lightroom Classic there is an icon which looks like a little cloud in the upper right hand corner. Click on it and click on Pause Sync. If you already have some images synced and want to delete them from the cloud go to Edit - Preferences - Lightroom Sync and click on Delete All Synced Data.

Ok. But the point is when you say “I want to use Lightroom (classic or otherwise)…..”….. the “otherwise” is the issue. If you ONLY want to use Lightroom classic then all of your images can stay on your hard drive as LRC is based on local storage. If you want to use the cloud version of LR, then it gets trickier and will involve your images being in the cloud. Do you ONLY want to use LRC and nothing else… I.e. there is no “otherwise”?

Ah, so it looks like it's not syncing anymore as the attached image shows. What's interesting is that in Creative Cloud it shows nothing there, that is, under "Your Files" it shows no files in the cloud. However, when in the preferences of Lightroom Classic under "Lightroom Sync" there's a button to delete all my synced data. When I click on that it takes me to Lightroom web which has some photos. I see that I can delete them from there. So, once that's done, and seeing what I've attached below, am I good to go as long as I don't enable syncing?

I've only used Lightroom Classic so far and it did upload to the cloud. I've disable that syncing so I should be good there. Are you saying that I can't use "regular" Lightroom without it uploading to the cloud? Can that be prevented? And what about Photoshop? Does it force a cloud upload or can it be told not to?

Yes, as long as you deleted all images from the cloud. In your image it shows that you have 1.9 GB on the cloud

To my knowledge:
1) you cannot use LR without your images being in the cloud
2) if your files are local, you can ONLY use LRC
3) you can use LRC and PS on local files.
4) you do not need to upload files to the cloud (keep them local and “point” to that local catalog) to use either LRC / PS on your PC/Mac.

You cannot use "regular: Lightroom a.k.a. Mobile without uploading to the cloud. I do not even bothered to download this version. In Photoshop Preferences File handling change Default file location to On your computer.

Perfect. Thank you.

Just splitting hairs here:
LR is not the same as LRM despite both requiring images be in the cloud (and syncing between them seamlessly). They have somewhat different features (I.e in LR you can use the Adobe “Enhance” function but that cannot be done in LRM…. Stuff like that)

LRC, as we all know, is different again than both of the apps above. The good news for the OP is that LRC is by FAR the most robust and feature rich of the three apps.

I think that the OP has the info he needs now.