Oct. 2016 Lightroom CC & Lightroom Classic CC Updates

[punctum-brewster]

Link: http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2017/10/introducing-lightroom-cc-lightroom-classic-cc-and-more.html

It looks like Adobe has made a major move to cloud-ify their Lightroom Offering. With Apple Aperture basically dead and the start of sunsetting Lightroom as we knew it yesterday, what can we do to create viable archives of our work that last more than 20 years?

Cameras and scanners still create files and archiving standard image files like TIFF, on a traditional computer disks with regular validation and migration seems to be the only sure way.

 

[wiltw]

Unless you expect to 're-interpret' your RAW files indefinitely into the future, you could simply output TIFF or JPG files. Burn them onto media and then every few years copy them from one device to some different technology storage unit, to keep up with the evolution of hardware

...and do so before the old storage unit can no longer be interfaced to the current PC hardware. If digital images had existed in the days of the ST-506 harddrive in the 1980s, you would be hard pressed to plug in an ST-506 into a PC of 2017, and so your ST-506 harddrive data would be inaccessible.

 

[punctum-brewster]

I guess the risk to losing archives is computer literacy. http://dpBestFlow.org is sponsored by the government in a partnership with ASMP. It covers all of this stuff including ingest, backup, archival naming schemes, formats and tools.

People don't know how to take these steps using computers. It's too time consuming for most people to feel it's a good use of their time even when they have the skills.

I think there's an opportunity to improve things for users. There isn't a good combination of free/easy/effective available.