burkphoto wrote:
Lightroom and Photoshop Elements are like apples and oranges.
Lightroom 6.14 is long gone, left in the dust. Photoshop Elements 2020 is still available. Serif's Affinity Photo is a much better value.
The least expensive Adobe Photography Plan ($9.99/month subscription) INCLUDES both Photoshop 2020 (the FULL, monster version), Lightroom CLASSIC (desktop computer successor to Lightroom 6.14), PLUS Adobe Bridge, an always up-to-date version of Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), and Lightroom CC, which is the cloud-based version that runs on Macs, Windows PCs, iOS tablets and phones, and Android devices.
Most of us here use Lightroom CLASSIC and Photoshop 2020. They complement one another.
Lightroom Classic is an image database, cull editor, rating system, raw developer using the ACR engine, parametric image editor, web poster, file exporter, print engine, photo book layout system... (Parametric means you use sliders to adjust global attributes such as contrast, color, exposure, etc.)
Photoshop is a completely different concept. It is a full-blown bitmap image editor with very mature and rich features developed since the late 1980s. It has no image database, although you can use it with Lightroom or Bridge to manage collections of images. Photoshop works in layers, has masking, text creation capabilities, and most of the image editing tools you could ever hope for. It is far more advanced than Photoshop Elements (which used to be known as Photshop Lite Edition).
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