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Robert Eva

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Just a bit confused, can someone tell me does adobe Creative Cloud give me both Lightroom and Photoshop?
Thanks Rob.
 
Yes.

I pay £8 odd for the photographers package, and you get Photoshop and light room in the package.

Dave
 
Thanks Dave .
Yes, that was what I was looking at. I was struggling to understand the fundamental difference between LR and PS , am I correct in thinking that PS just gives an enhanced level of manipulation over LR ? If PS can do everything LR can do , why would you need the two?
Regards Rob,
( Yorkshire born, Yorkshire bred, strong in't arm and thick in't 'ed !)
 
Personally I like PS because that's what I learnt to use first when I started digital processing. I gather from people who are more expert than me that if one was going to start from scratch then the most effective method is to be learn to develop in LR and polish the image off in PS ( it it is need )
Hope that helps
James
 
Robert Eva said:
Thanks Dave .
Yes, that was what I was looking at. I was struggling to understand the fundamental difference between LR and PS , am I correct in thinking that PS just gives an enhanced level of manipulation over LR ? If PS can do everything LR can do , why would you need the two?
Regards Rob,
( Yorkshire born, Yorkshire bred, strong in't arm and thick in't 'ed !)
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LR has a few things that make it ideal for photographers. The most powerful feature imo is the cataloguing ability, done with a little thought means you will be able to find any image very quickly. For quickly sorting out the good from bad images, grading them etc it is excellent. Also it's editing is non destructive, so if you completely fubar an edit you can start over, or step back to a none fubar'd state. It also talks to PS seamlessly so when needed editing an image in PS is easy peasy. Then the image is brought back into LR (all done just about automatically).

PS is great when you need detailed or sophisticated edits, such as when layers are needed or blending and such. If you think of it as an extension to LRs editing capability you won't go far wrong. LR is great for simple edits, although it does have some good detail editing features. They really do compliment each other.

I don't make as much use of PS as I used to, I tend to use LR 90% of the time. I am slowly getting back into using PS though.
 
Lightroom is good at doing the basic ajustments to a lot of images, by basic I mean you can ajust colour, sharpness exposure with some selective editing, lightroom also has other moduals like slideshow/print ect.
Photoshop on the other hand isn't great if you have a lot of images to edit quickly, but with photoshop you can do pretty much anything to a photo, you can swop parts of images (heads for example) you can combine several photos to make one, maybe a foreground from one pic, the background from a second and the sky from yet another. The skys the limit (pun intended)
Really they compliment each other, lightroom for the bulk heavy lifting so to speak, and photoshop for the clever tweeks/special effects.
Personally I could live with just photoshop, but I couldn't manage with only lightroom for what I do. That said it's a heck of a lot easier with both.
 
Light room Provides a method of maintaining a library and Non destructive style editing of the file.
and a means of exporting adjusted files in various formats and sizes.
However it can not do editing at a pixel level or as layers ( what most Photographers like to do)
It is not really an Either/or. Most of us find both necessary.
 
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So that's LR and PS paid for and downloaded , I can feel a big learning curve coming on !
 
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