I'll walk you through some of these scenarios later in this tutorial series, but for now, just keep in mind that it's the cloud at the center of Lightroom that allows all of this to happen. I can even run Lightroom on another computer and access my same photos, which means that I can work on the same photos in Lightroom on a desktop and a laptop, or on a machine at home and one at work. And if I edit a photo or organize it into an album on any of these devices, that change automatically syncs through the cloud to Lightroom on all my other devices.

So, the same photos that you see here in Lightroom on my computer, are automatically here on my iPhone too. And because all your photos are in the cloud, you can view and work with them everywhere if you use Lightroom, as long as you're logged in with your Adobe ID. Every photo that you add to Lightroom on a mobile device, a computer or a web browser, automatically uploads at full resolution to the cloud. The thing you'll notice right off the bat is that your photos and the changes that you make to them are everywhere. The cloud-centric nature of Lightroom is what makes it unique and allows it to offer you special advantages. And here's the point to remember when you're trying to get a grasp on how it all works: The whole Lightroom ecosystem revolves around one central point: The cloud.

Instead, it's an ecosystem, or you might think of it as a family of apps that you can use across different devices, computers, mobile devices, the web, even Apple TV. That's a complete package for editing, organizing, storing and sharing your photos. Welcome to Get Started with Lightroom, Adobe's beginner tutorial series designed to help you use Lightroom, which is Adobe's cloud-centric photo service.

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