PhotoShop Vs Lightroom

[BCordeiroPhotography]

hello everyone just looking for some opinions for editing just checking what most photographer use for image editing or post processing is it Lightroom 5 Or Photoshop Thank you all.

 

[Mike_E]

Most seem to use LR.

Being an odd duck I run PS through bridge.

Not that it's better that way for most images it's just that I spent all that time learning PS and I'm a crank enough to just keep using it.

 

[TamiAz]

I use both LR & CS6..

 

[ronlane]

hello everyone just looking for some opinions for editing just checking what most photographer use for image editing or post processing is it Lightroom 5 Or Photoshop Thank you all.

Unless you are considering buying a copy of LR5 from a store, this shouldn't be a problem. You get both as part of the Creative Cloud (CC) for $9.99 a month from adobe. So you don't have to choose.

 

[D-B-J]

hello everyone just looking for some opinions for editing just checking what most photographer use for image editing or post processing is it Lightroom 5 Or Photoshop Thank you all.

Unless you are considering buying a copy of LR5 from a store, this shouldn't be a problem. You get both as part of the Creative Cloud (CC) for $9.99 a month from adobe. So you don't have to choose.

I keep telling myself I'm going to upgrade to CC...


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[ronlane]

hello everyone just looking for some opinions for editing just checking what most photographer use for image editing or post processing is it Lightroom 5 Or Photoshop Thank you all.

Unless you are considering buying a copy of LR5 from a store, this shouldn't be a problem. You get both as part of the Creative Cloud (CC) for $9.99 a month from adobe. So you don't have to choose.

I keep telling myself I'm going to upgrade to CC...


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Me too D-B-J but I have to upgrade my OS first and I really want to change to Mac instead of that. So I keep on using LR4 and PSE11. (I guess I should really start trying to make some money from this, huh?)

 

[D-B-J]

Unless you are considering buying a copy of LR5 from a store, this shouldn't be a problem. You get both as part of the Creative Cloud (CC) for $9.99 a month from adobe. So you don't have to choose.

I keep telling myself I'm going to upgrade to CC...


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Me too D-B-J but I have to upgrade my OS first and I really want to change to Mac instead of that. So I keep on using LR4 and PSE11. (I guess I should really start trying to make some money from this, huh?)

There always seems to be things I want to buy and such little money being made from it. But hey, it's a hobby I love and I don't do it for the money [emoji5]️


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[Steve5D]

I'm using Elements 10.

Works for me...

 

[BCordeiroPhotography]

What is the cloud all about if you dont mind me asking it seems that you can do alot more in PS then lightroom but those who use both how to you incorporation both programs together do you color correct in one and then fix skin and etc in PS?

 

[KmH]

There are editing tasks Lightroom cannot do. So Lightroom is an incomplete solution and you also need Photoshop.

I use both CC and LR, and several other editing applications as well from Phase One, Imagenomic, hdrSoft, Topaz, Nik, OnOne.

Adobe Creative cloud is a subscription service.
Adobe offers a Photoshop Photography Program that includes both Photoshop CC and LR 5 for $9.99 a month. https://creative.adobe.com/plans/offer/photoshop+lightroom?promoid=KKVFE

Before Adobe went to a subscription business model about 1/3 of all their software being used in the world was pirated software.
Plus Photoshop came in 2 versions, regular Photoshop ($699 retail) and Photoshop Extended ($999 retail), and those versions got updated every 2 years or so.
Those of us that already had Photoshop could upgrade to regular Photoshop for $199. Upgrading the Extended version was $349, and upgrade pricing was offered 3 versions back. So If you owned CS 2, 3, or 4 you qualified for upgrade pricing for CS 5. If we chose we could skip some of the upgrades.
With the cloud, Adobe makes upgrades available as soon as they are ready instead of waiting 2 years to make the upgrades available.

Photoshop/LR installs on our computer so we can use it offline. But if we stop making the monthly subscription payments Adobe doesn't renew the use license and you can no longer use the Photoshop that is installed on your computer.
So it's not really a cloud type service since the software is resident on your computer.

The first 3 versions of Lightroom were $299 with an upgrade price of $99. Because of it's popularity Adobe lowered the price of LR.
Lightroom can be purchased (we don't 'own' the software but get a perpetual use license and the software on a disc) outside the Creative Cloud.

 

[jswill]

I use both LR5 and CS6. I got CS6 before they went to CC. As said before, there are somethings that Photoshop does easier and better than LR%

 

[BCordeiroPhotography]

im going to stick with photoshop cs6 it seems that the work flow is alot better and the quality seems to be prefect.

 

[KmH]

CS 6 has Camera Raw which is the same software (Adobe Camera Raw or - ACR) that is also Lightroom's Develop module.

That is so edits done in LR are compatible with Photoshop.

Lightroom was designed to be an image database management application and front-end application to Photoshop.
Photoshop CS 6 Bridge has quite a few of the same image sharing and exporting features that LR has plus some that LR doesn't have.

Camera Raw 8.4 and DNG Converter 8.4 now available
As mentioned here, updates to Camera Raw 8 for Photoshop CS6 only include new camera support, lens profile support, and bug fixes. The new features listed in the release notes are only available in Photoshop CC.

 

[Derrel]

Lightroom was designed to be a fast, efficient, and expeditious image editing, publishing/printing, cataloging/database, keywording, and web-uploading application and was developed many years after Photoshop was conceived as an intense, slow, plodding, complex,unwieldy, hard-to-master, convoluted, one-image-at-a-time, pixel-level editing solution. One application dates to the era before personal computers were in wide use and before almost ANYBODY had access to ANY type of digital imaging technology. Lightroom on the other hand, was developed as a response to Apple's Aperture, and the first *real* competition Adobe ever faced from any kind of a genuine, deep-pocketed-and-capable other company.

One app is slow, and plodding and rooted in the late 1980's/early 1990's metaphor, while the other is more of a twenty-first century application created in response to something called "the digital SLR" and "the-larger-than-2-gig memory card".

That is my summary of "Photoshop vs Lightroom", minus disingenuous allusions to equality and parity and shared similarities, because the two applications are VERY different in many ways, and are really intended for different uses. Like a knife, and a fork. Photoshop is an old app, developed for digital image manipulation. Lightroom is a newer application, designed to get **** done.

 

[IzzieK]

My workflow is camera (I shoot RAW), Photoshop. Period. I learned also to be simple and uses Nik Software from time to time.