Shakey Loc: Traveling again to Norway and other places.

Yep, GIMP is great for color adjustments. Simple but in depth tutorial here: http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/tpr?p=1276786&t=69708

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

Quote "Lightroom is not a replacement for PSE or PS - if that is all you got out of it, then you didn't actually understand what it is and how it works."

Could be but when they provide a 30 day trial version with no instruction what so ever, they have to expect that some prospective customers won't like it. I didn't, and don't need or want to have to process prints in two or more separate programs! For example, Lightroom doesn't 'save' prints and I knew that before I tried it, but neither do they bother explaining how the LR edits get saved.

Carl D Loc: Albemarle, NC.

That's one of the reason I like Capture One. The other is its tethering qualities.

Daryl New Loc: Wellington,New Zealand

Absolutely recommend Photoscape.org,it's free and if you spend a little time experimenting/checking what the various tabs do it becomes so easy to use.

louparker Loc: Scottsdale, AZ

I use ACDSee Pro 9, which has both PC software and an online subscription models. BTW, this topic has been discussed numerous times in prior threads -- you should check out archives as there really is no need for a new thread on the same topic.

TheDman Loc: USA

There's nothing to explain, it happens automatically.

Wallbanger Loc: Madison, WI

+1 although Lightroom's import module is in drastic need of some TLC. I like always being up to date and the sync to my iPad/Android/iPhone with Lightroom Mobile is very cool. You can make edits on the go and they sync back to your laptop/desktop.

joseph premanandan

i like AuroraHDR in the sense you can do HDR with a single image with color options and it comes with many presets depending on your image with landscape,architecture etc,joseph

mclsr Loc: Ohio

I'm not sure what the difference is between light room and elements. Any thoughts?

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

They are two completely different packages with a bit of overlap that serve two different purposes. Lightroom is primarily a very sophisticated raw editor used to modify exposures. PS Elements also has a raw editor but its far less sophisticated and is primarily a pixel editor, where you can modify objects, as an example replacing Uncle Bill's head with new Uncle Ted's head in a family photo after the divorce. People will try to convince you that Lightroom's single most important benefit is cataloging, which is about as far from reality as you can get. Yet, it has strong cataloging features, but the true value of Lightroom for any power user is the Develop module where all the real action happens. Other than importing files into Lightroom from my own cataloging folder scheme, I rarely use any of Lightroom's cataloging features. In fact I use both Lightroom and Elements together. LIghtroom as the front end, and Elements as the back end. I do my raw processing in Lightroom and from within Lightroom send the adjusted file in Tiff format to Elements if I need layers or a pixel editor. From Elements. I send the file back to Lightroom with any additional changes I made there.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Fine, except the Raw Editor in Elements is the same engine as used in Photoshop. Lest we forget, the full name of Elements (PSE) is Photoshop Elements. With that said, the Adobe Camera Raw Editor version in Elements has only 4 or 5 tabs while Photoshop has 10. I hardly ever use all of them to get the same good results but they're there if I need them. That's the way the relationship is between the two programs all down the line. You can still get all the good stuff you want done but in Elements you might have to find workarounds a lot. For example, in Elements you don't have Curves so you have to do all of your exposure work in Levels.

Carl D Loc: Albemarle, NC.

The bottom line here is "get some software and learn to use it!" Nobody on this thread is right and nobody is wrong! After 4 pages of this discussion it gets old. Plus whatever is in our archives should be more than enough information to make up your mind!

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

It is not the "same" raw editor as Photoshop, it is merely a subset and far from the power of Lightroom when it comes to processing raw files. For those of us who do extensive raw processing in Lightroom, Elements, although a generally very competent program, falls short.