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Originally Posted by Itchybottom
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They're different products. You can do everything in Photoshop, but Lightroom is just the beginning of photo processing workflow, with library integration and some shitty scripts (like being able to compress/archive your workflow). It's for people who don't have the skill, and/or time for a real postprocessing suite. RAW processing is leaps and bounds better in Photoshop. I think though that grandma with holiday photos, would probably make more sense of Lightroom. Elements, is the middle man between Lightroom and Photoshop. Lightroom is the "sorting" end of the spectrum, Elements is the "consumer post-processing" and Photoshop is the "do-it-all". Then of course there is Adobe Bridge, is which their file browser and has all sorts of quirks (like not being able to export RAW data from Lightroom to Bridge, but you can export RAW data from Photoshop to Bridge ... yeah, whatever that's all about)
The user interface [of Lightroom], is counter-intuitive compared to competing products. Aperture is easier to use and Silkypix, even though horrible, is better laid out and comes free as postprocessing software with a lot of cameras.
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This is mostly accurate. I like Lightroom because it's hella easy for me to sort my photos. And for this class I'm taking, she prefers us to submit our assignments via "Catalogs" that you can easily create in Lightroom. So I'll import the photos, and do the super basic touchups. Lightroom and Photoshop work hand and hand, you can throw photos between the two programs really easily, so if need be I'll then slide the photos to Photoshop to do whatever else needs to be done. Then back to lightroom for catalog organization. I really like lightroom. I've grown to be really familiar with it, so whatever processing I can do in it, I prefer to do there rather than photoshop.