My trial has expired for LR and looking to purchase a subscription.
LR seems to do everything I've needed so far, so do I need PS?
Has anyone bought both and not used PS, or use it more than they thought they would?
Or is the 1TB storage more useful than an app I might not use?
Decisions, decisions!!
LR's main function is like one big scrapbook showing all your photos, in effect a catalogue of your photos, like a museum have a catalogue of paintings, making it easier to find 'that' photo you want to look at. LR's editing tools is a minor and secondary function. Helps with fix a bit of bad exposed image. That one photo is a bit dark, so adjust it to good exposure.
Think of LR as a ink pen.
PS's main function is like a drawing board or painting stand or a darkroom enlarger. It is for you to create an artwork or make a photo form a negative, as well as adjust lighting levels, it's there to be creative, change your photo to different colours, or turn it into a drawing or painting.
Think of PS as a lead pencil.
If all you do is just import your photos, to catalogue them, for the purpose of finding photos, with a bit of adjusting the image's darkness or brightness, little retouching to remove that little spot there, then you do need LR.
But ask yourself this: Do you want to do some painting? Retouching the overall image like "I'm going to airbrush out this guy in the background of my photo!"?
So if "Yes", then you could do with PS, but if "No", then you could do without PS.
So think of it in the sense of: You always use a pen for writing, but sometimes a pen can be used for a bit of doddle drawing. But do you really need the pencil? How likely are you going to be using the pencil and draw a big sketch?
Hope it helps giving you ideas on how to look making a decision?