I have Lightroom 4. I understand I don't need to download the program through the Creative Cloud setup. How will I/the program know when an upgrade is issued? I know updates happen routinely, but if you have a feature that would be found on Lightroom 5, how will that be known by me or the program if it was never tied in to the Creative Cloud? As I understand it, the new features that will eventually evolve into the next version of the program will be automatically placed into the Creative Cloud version as they (features) become available.
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