Free trial of Photoshop Lightroom 5

Question

A photographer friend recommended I use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 for procesing my RAW photos. I found the "free trial link" but cannot find how long it lasts. Can someone at Adobe please respond? Thank you kindly.
Nomadic Texan

Answer 1

Before you can insert a photo in a blog you have to export it from Lightroom as an RGB image, probably in jpg format. From the moment it has been saved on your hard drive that jpg leads an independent existence which is not connected to Lightroom's functionality or lack of it - just like a calve can go on living after the cow has been trotted off to the slaughter-house. Moreover, after you have uploaded the jpg to the web a copy of it is now saved on the blog site's server and will continue to be there even if your computer explodes.
Also, you should be aware that LR never does anything to your Raw files other than read them. It does not change them in any way and after you have finished the trial you can edit them in any other Raw conversion application. As a matter of fact, you can edit them in LR and any number of other converters simultaneously. When you edit a Raw in LR the only thing that happens is that those requested edits are listed in a database file, called the "catalog", for LR's future reference if it is commanded to make an RGB image. Without an operative version of LR the catalog cannot be read.