![]() The main good thing I can say about Photoshop Elements is that it has most of what most photographers want to do in Photoshop but it costs a lot less. SilkyPix has a couple features not found in Lightroom, but after careful consideration I decided to stick with Lightroom. But it's almost as expensive as Lightroom. SilkyPix Pro Studio 3 was just released and it's VERY good, I think. Bibble Pro 4.10 is really powerful but very dated (almost as dated as The Gimp) and Bibble Pro 5, well, who knows when it will be released. At one time I would have suggested taking a look at LightCrafts' LightZone but I'm not sure that product has a future. If you do NOT take lots of photos, you have other options worth considering. Lightroom is particularly well-tailored to the needs of event photographers like me, folks who deal with lots of photos. ![]() It's a very good compromise designed to meet an individual photographer's overall needs. Lightroom is not Photoshop, on the one hand, nor is it a completely full-featured DAM tool, either. And because Lightroom (unlike Photoshop) was designed from the ground up to meet the specific needs of working photographers and to meet those needs exclusively, the tools in Lightroom are laid out beautifully. You can certainly do in Lightroom the kind of processing that you linked to. ![]() If you need to take 50 lbs off the bride, or if you're shooting a group of young ballerinas and one girl showed up with the wrong color tights and you need to fix that, well, again, that's not really Lightroom's thing.īut otherwise, Lightroom 2.5's photo-processing tools are quite powerful, and I've heard people who know both programs well say that in some respects Lightroom is better than Photoshop. If you need to copy a pair of open eyes from one shot and paste 'em into another shot where the bride's eyes were accidentally closed, well, Lightroom can't do that. I no longer use Photoshop at all personally. It has way more features than most photographers need. But it was never really designed to be a raw-workflow program for photographers. (when I used Photoshop in, I think, the early '90s, the photos were of course always scanned). Dealing with photos has always been part of its M.O. Images of any kind: digital drawings, logos, whatever. It is an image program designed to prepare images for print. ![]() Photoshop is a program designed on a MUCH older concept. But since I'm not sure that you need Lightroom either, it's hard for me to know what to say. I'd like to make this easy and say simply that you don't need Photoshop. Second question: Lightroom or Photoshop (or both, or neither)? But if I were working on fewer photos, I don't know, maybe The Gimp would do the trick. I could not personally use it for the photography that I do, because I am typically processing hundreds of photos a week. I think I get that Lightroom is more of a image management program, but what would you say are the big distinguishing factors? If I already use GIMP for basic touching up, would there be a reason for me to get Lightroom or Photoshop?You are asking two quite different questions, I think.įirst question: Do you need something better than The Gimp? But I use both depending on what I need to accomplish. I basically want to do what Cloggie_UK did to my picture here: and photoshop are complementary programs. (I do not own either of these programs, but just realized today that since I am taking a class at a time towards a master's degree, that I am eligible for student discounts!) I think I get that Lightroom is more of a image management program, but what would you say are the big distinguishing factors? If I already use GIMP for basic touching up, would there be a reason for me to get Lightroom or Photoshop? (I'm assuming you can do all these things in Photoshop as well) But it seems like Lightroom has a very simple interface to do some very powerful things, like sharpen functions that actually look good, etc. I figure that Photoshop can do way more image editing than Lightroom, not to mention graphics creation.
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