Lightroom vs Photoshop: I just subscribed to Creative Cloud and have access to both LR and PS. Seems LR and PS have much of the same functionality. Can those who are mire familiar with...

Basil Loc: New Mexico

I just subscribed to Creative Cloud and have access to both LR and PS.

Seems LR and PS have much of the same functionality. Can those who are mire familiar with them, summarize what does LR do that PS doesn't and vice versa?

kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

LAYERS. Photoshop does layers, complete with masking, layer effects, etc. Photoshop does HDR. Photoshop does amazing text and 3D effects, puppet warp, perspective, many many filters, soft proofing for printing, grids, guides, dodging and burning tools, many cloning tools, plus so much more it is hard to even begin.

Lightroom is more about a system of cataloging and managing your photos, along with a developing module that actually Photoshop does in Adobe camera raw before you even get to the main program.

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

To summarize Kymarto's post, they compliment each other.

Basil Loc: New Mexico

Thanks!

davefales Loc: Virginia

My somewhat limited experience says it depends on how much processing you intend to do. I tend to pick and choose so Adobe Camera Raw and PS works quite well. If you need to do batch processing, LR is probably the better tool.

kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

You can, of course, choose settings in ACR and synchronize as many frames as you would like to those settings...

davefales Loc: Virginia

kymarto wrote:

You can, of course, choose settings in ACR and synchronize as many frames as you would like to those settings...

Toby - can that be done without using Bridge? Time to learn something new here. Thanks.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Basil wrote:

I just subscribed to Creative Cloud and have access to both LR and PS.

Seems LR and PS have much of the same functionality. Can those who are mire familiar with them, summarize what does LR do that PS doesn't and vice versa?

LR is a diminutive subset of PS C<any version> capabilities. It's main use is to complement Adobe Bridge.

There is absolutely no advantage to use LR any version for individual advanced post processing. Even batch basic processing in LR is overshadowed by PS C? ACR* (Adobe Camera raw)

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ACR comes emasculated in PSE LR -Any version-.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

All this is so confusing to me, not surprisingly of course. How does Corel Paintshop Pro compare to PSCC and PSLR??

kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

davefales wrote:

Toby - can that be done without using Bridge? Time to learn something new here. Thanks.

I've only done it in Bridge: opened several raws in ACR at the same time--worked on one and then hit the "synchronize all" button. Then they are all opened in PS, or (I guess) will have the sidecar setting applied to all but not opened if you choose "done" instead of "open".

kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

Racmanaz wrote:

All this is so confusing to me, not surprisingly of course. How does Corel Paintshop Pro compare to PSCC and PSLR??

There is definitely a learning curve. I tried Corel and found the interface quite clunky. Controls are not nearly as good--a lot of presets instead of continuous controls, and found it much slower to apply the chosen parameters.

DavidPine Loc: Fredericksburg, TX

LR5 is the left hand and PS CC is the right hand. There are numerous free videos on YouTube, B&H, Adroama and Adobe. There is a learning curve but you should consider that you are working with serious professional software. You will like Adobe's Creative Cloud. I certainly do. Good luck. p.s. next comes Topaz and/or NIK.

Basil wrote:

I just subscribed to Creative Cloud and have access to both LR and PS.

Seems LR and PS have much of the same functionality. Can those who are mire familiar with them, summarize what does LR do that PS doesn't and vice versa?

Rongnongno Loc: FL

DavidPine wrote:

LR5 is the left hand and PS CC is the right hand. There are numerous free videos on YouTube, B&H, Adroama and Adobe. There is a learning curve but you should consider that you are working with serious professional software. You will like Adobe's Creative Cloud. I certainly do. Good luck. p.s. next comes Topaz and/or NIK.

Yeah, right and lose all control to add-ons that are used by folks who do not want to learn how much they can really do if only...

(rant)

Ted Liette Loc: Greenville, Ohio

Searcher wrote:

To summarize Kymarto's post, they compliment each other.

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kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

They do complement each other to some extent, but I have to say that after using Photoshop for many years, I find Lightroom a complete disappointment. I find the workflow confusing and byzantine, and generally speaking Photoshop much easier to use for every functionality it shares with LR. Perhaps if one uses Lightroom to simply organize and do some simple adjustments to digital files it is good, but it serves me not at all.