I have both LR and PS, and use PS only once in a blue moon, mainly to stitch
images for panoramas. For everything else I do, LR is ideal.
Cheers,
Nathan
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On May 24, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Walters, Martin wrote:
> As a benefit of my flash course, I'm entitled to student reductions of
> some Adobe software. In particular, both Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5
> are available at significant discounts. I already have PS Elements 8,
> so my question concerns the relative merits and use (casual in my case)
> of these three software. As my images are scans from film, things like
> RAW processing are not a priority.
>
> PS Elements does a good many things, though I gather its significant
> limitations (I'm sure there are others) include the lack of layers and
> adjustable curves. PS proper is at the other end of the scale and
> likely overkill for me, without serious study and use.
>
> My real question is where Lightroom fits in the picture (pun intended)?
> I've been through the info on the Adobe website, and I'm still at a bit
> of a loss what to make of it. It would appear to offer significant
> editing capacities, which are undescribed but presumably less than PS
> ("it works seamlessly with PS", or something like that). It's also not
> clear whether it offers greater or just different editing capacities to
> PSE. Lightroom seems to emphasize workflow issues like managing and
> distributing images, as much as it does editing.
>
> There are list members who use Lightroom and PS (maybe separately or
> together), I'd be grateful to hear their comments on the relative
> merits/limitations of the software.
>
> On topic: the images are made with an OM!
>
> Martin
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