ADOBE elements 8.0 OR lightroom 3?

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had a trial of elements 8.0 and its pretty good for someone like me who know nadda about PP, however, just before I fork out over 100 euros for elements 8.0 should I get lightroom 3 instead?
My level is I open the pic and then I need my hand held to do ANYTHING
 
cherokee1111 said:
had a trial of elements 8.0 and its pretty good for someone like me who know nadda about PP, however, just before I fork out over 100 euros for elements 8.0 should I get lightroom 3 instead?
My level is I open the pic and then I need my hand held to do ANYTHING
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I have both, after a good few years, I still need my hand holding:shrug: Light room is slick, a little to slick if you ask me, Personally I would go with Elements . . .

I have been shouted down in the past . . . low on ambition, and I like an easy life so I stay with what I can understand :shrug: I like the ACR v5.6 (Adobe Camera RAW) in Elements, really does hold the hand as you make adjustments to basic RAW file, then click 'open' and it automatically converts to JPG and opens the file in Elements ready for final tweaks, I expect LR does the same . . . ????
 
I have both and use Lightroom for 95% of my editing, I only use Elements when I need to do layers etc.
 
I agree totally with CJS, PE8 is a great little prog with integrated raw processing, we just updated it for the 7D.

Lightroom is indeed very slick and fast but expensive compared to PE8 (£32 morgan computers) it can also be problematic to print from.
 
LR3 is made for picture processing! 1st choice.
 
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LR3 is made for picture processing! 1st choice.
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but is it helpful to use if you have little or no experience? heard it cant do layers either which I thought was a standard in picture processing
 
cherokee1111 said:
but is it helpful to use if you have little or no experience? heard it cant do layers either which I thought was a standard in picture processing
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well yes - as I keep being told - you have to start somewhere! You have to learn how to use it but that applies to any software. I can do 95% of my day to day processing in Lightroom - and very quickly too - PS is very rarely used. You don't need layers except on very few occasions. LR3 also catalogues your pictures which is great - means you can find them again no matter where you stored them - very highly recommended! It was made for photographers.
 
It depends on what you're after. LR would be my first choice when it comes to optimizing white\colour levels, contrast, sharpness etc. The fact that LR catalogues your pics is a REALLY neat feature. Over the last few years, I've amassed nearly 20 000 photos, all stored on diffrent HDs and in 100s of diffrent folders, yet any given photo takes only a few seconds to find in LR.
You mention LR doesn't have layers, while Elements does. You wont need layers for postprocessing your photos. If you want to edit your photos, Elements might provide more tools for your needs, and in editing, layers are more useful.
 
This is not really a either/or question.

Lightroom was never designed to replace Elements or Photoshop but they do compliment each other very nicely.

Lightroom is not image editing software but rather a RAW convertor/processor and an image catalogue. However saying that, 95% of my images never see Photoshop as I can achieve pretty much everything I need with Lightroom.

if you need layers then you need Elements/PS.
 
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