A few weeks ago I made the leap from maintaining a local photography workflow to a fully cloud-based workflow using Adobe Creative Cloud. As part of this, I uploaded all my 26k archived photos to Creative Cloud and migrated my Lightroom catalog to Adobe’s cloud-based organization system.
I was a bit worried the new system might not work well with my shoot-edit-publish workflow, but everything went smoothly, and so far the cloud platform appears to be faster and more intuitive. The AI-based search functionality is amazing, and it also seamlessly integrates all of my iPhone photos with my DSLR shoots, which was a major pain point previously.
There are still a few features from Lightroom Classic that have not made their way over, but the gap isn’t as wide as it was a few years ago (which is why I didn’t make the transition at launch), and I don’t think I’ll ever look back.
One of the benefits I did not initially anticipate was that having my entire photo library in the cloud makes it extremely easy to maintain a perfectly synced portfolio website. I’d previously done this this manually using Zenfolio, but it was time consuming and a bit of a clunky process.
So I spent the past week building a new portfolio website from the ground up, with every photo synced directly to Adobe Cloud: www.samuelkornstein.com
It has my portfolio, along with collections from nearly every major landscape shoot I’ve completed going back to 2008.
Hope you enjoy, and would welcome any feedback!