Adobe’s hotly anticipated Lightroom Mobile—the iPad version of its professional desktop photo management and editing software—has now arrived on the scene. But unlike Lightroom 5,_you must be a Creative Cloud subscriber to use it. Lightroom 5 is the company’s_only pro-level photography app that you can still purchase as a standalone perpetual license ($149), that is, without a Creative Cloud subscription. However, Lightroom 5.4, the update that features interoperability with Lightroom Mobile, is available only via Creative Cloud._Tying its mobile companion app to Creative Cloud_will further pressure subscription holdouts to get with the program. Now, the cheapest way to get the...

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