I use both PS CS4 and LR2.2. If you held a gun to my head and said get rid of one. First - I would cry and whimper a lot and then second - I would get rid of PS.
I don't think I could live without Lightroom, especially now that LR2 has a lot more editing and retouching options than the previous versions. I rarely us Photoshop now - but there is still the odd occasion that LR is not up to the task and then you have to bring out the big guns.
Hi all,
For argument sake if you had a choice between learning one the these applications inside out over the other, which one would you chose/recommend? or is having knowledge of both the best way forward?
Cheers
For me it's Photoshop, I did a course on Photoshop many years ago and know it well. I have tried Lightroom many times but just cant get my head round it.
That's cleared that up thenI have Lightroom installed, but find that I can do pretty much everything I want in Lightroom so rarely open it.
Lightroom is photo management software, Photoshop is a very powerful, professional-quality image editor.
So whilst both will do similar things, they're really designed for different uses.
I use Photoshop because i've pretty much grown up with it since V4. I certainly don't profess to know
everything about it but i do now find it a lot easier to use than a lot of other 'Photo' software..
I've been a longtime Photoshop user (on CS3 now) , I tried lightroom when it first came out and hated it as it did neither image managment or editing particualy well. But Lightroom 2.3 (which I have now purchased) is a completly different beast and does both extremely well.
Plus I love using virtual copies which I can make as many variations as I like of one image without using disc space but still print them or send them to the web even thought they do not physicly exist.
If I had to make a reccomendation now for the most cost effective way it would be Lightroom in conjunction with Elements for the rare occasion I would need to go outside lightroom.
With the new tools in lightroom I now find it possible with portraits to remove a distracing background , skin soften, remove blemishes and add eye sparkle all to a virtual copy where before it would have to be done in CS3.