light room
Jun 17, 2012 14:08:52 #
I have scratched the surface on CS-5 and elements. Took a course and am on my second course in CS-5. My girlfriend gifted me Lightroom. Now this stuff aint easy but what possible advantage is there to lightroom over CS-5 and Elements. Any input would be apprecieated. I hope the lady friend isn't watching!
Jun 17, 2012 14:14:16 #
Lightroom is more for cataloging photos and will handle some basic editing. PSE & PS are full-featured editors. I have found that LR will handle most of my requirements for photos and I only use PS (CS4) foe extensive edits or non-photographic design work.
Jun 17, 2012 14:29:00 #
Jun 19, 2012 11:21:42 #
snowbear wrote:
Lightroom is more for cataloging photos and will handle some basic editing. PSE & PS are full-featured editors. I have found that LR will handle most of my requirements for photos and I only use PS (CS4) foe extensive edits or non-photographic design work.
Now, while snowbear is absolutely correct in his responce don't disregard the power of cataloging. There have been many discussions in this forum on techniques and software to store, track and quickly retrieve photographs; and this is an area that Lightroom excells at. If you are using Adobe CS5 then part of the suite that loaded up should have been Adobe Bridge, which is software that acts as the "bridge" to move data between Adobe software packages (for example, Lightroom to Photoshop, Photoshop to InDesign, Lightroom or Photoshop to Flash, etc.). You may or may not us the editing features as much as you would with Photoshop but you may end up finding yourself using Lightroom to quickly locate a photo then moving it to Photoshop (or elsewhere) for further processing.
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