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Lightroom VS Photoshop
NOTNIKON!:
Which is recommended for photographers? Not necessarily most popular but more for practicality, ease of use and functionality. I’m currently using Photoshop.
neuroanatomist:
LR for light image editing and library management. Photoshop for serious image editing.
jbwise01:
I have LR 3.5, Photoshop CS5, and Apple Aperture 3, and I can say that.. for light image editing (e.g. minor touch ups, Exposure Work, and Color Tweaking) LR is king, for serious editing (heavy retouching, local color adjustments, and image enhacement) , you can't beat PS..
Now Apple Aperture 3 is interetsing, i have found it comprable to LR, it loacks graduated filter adjustments whihc can be quite time savings adjsutments... the touch up brush is better, and it does give some interesting local adjustment capability that LR3 lacks, i would warn that Aperture is a huge memory Hog, it creates and saves multiple versions of your RAW files in random places, and has its own trash bin, you can quickly find a 16 GB photo card eating up 50 GB of space in no time!
All in all i would recommend getting LR with the NIK software suite, the plug ins are what really make most photo editors shine, and having image management, image uploading, and a quick UI, LR is my perosnal favorite.
awinphoto:
Ditto what neuro said... Lightroom is for overall collections, can quickly make changes here and there and keep batches of files organized... Photoshop, you're working with each image individually, doesn't organize squat, other than your own storage system, and you can go into depth and make major changes, blend images together, do whatever your heart can dream of... but requires a larger learning curve than light room.
alipaulphotography:
Lightroom does 98% of what I want quickly in terms of non-destructive RAW editing and organising. Much easier interface. I use photoshop for any sort of serious photo manipulation. I also have various photoshop actions set up for resizing, sharpening and making diptychs for my blog.
If I could only have one it would be lightroom.
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