Beginner Is it Lightroom or PSE 14

[papeter]

As I have never attempted using post editing software before , I would like to know from you seasoned editors, do I start with LR first or PSE?
I went on DIGITALPHOTOGRAPHYFORMOMS site and they highly recommend learning LR first than proceed on to PSE.

I don't want to spend hours on end post processing, I just want something that will improve the look feel and enhance an acceptable image.
I am not into complicated editing like swapping heads around etc! I want to specialse on portraiture, child and people images.

I am interested to know what you all think for a 75 year old baby boy beginner.

Thanks all.

 

[rob-nikon]

Firstly do you use RAW or JPEG? If it's JPEG it may be worth looking at the free software like Picaso. It's th first editing program I used for enhancing JPEGs.

I first started editing RAWs with PSE, I had a really long winded workflow to get from RAW to edited JPEG. After 18 moths I finally decided to try Lightroom, 5 years later I haven't looked back. I do 99% do editing in Lightroom. I also like the organising element of Lightroom too, I never go into the hard drive storage folders as everything I'd done in Lightroom. I also now only need to export final images when I need them and that means I can set up for their intended use (printing, website display, Flickr etc) rather than have lots of hard drive space taken up by them.

These free training videos are worth a look at if you decide to go with Lightroom. It may be Lightroom 4 but majority of the information is relevant to Lightroom 6, it's just buttons may be in different places.

http://en.elephorm.com/tuto-lightroom-4-complete-training/lightroom-4-introduction.html

 

[sirch]

The Adobe Creative Cloud subscription gets you both LR and PS for about £8 per month and seems like a fair deal. Personally being quite new to photo editing as well I would say I use LR 90% of the time and PS only when I'm bored and messing about. LR can do all the things you need to clean up and enhance a photo, PS is much more about image manipulation, that said PS can do pretty much anything that LR can do but it may be a bit more difficult to work out how.

 

[papeter]

Firstly do you use RAW or JPEG? If it's JPEG it may be worth looking at the free software like Picaso. It's th first editing program I used for enhancing JPEGs.

I first started editing RAWs with PSE, I had a really long winded workflow to get from RAW to edited JPEG. After 18 moths I finally decided to try Lightroom, 5 years later I haven't looked back. I do 99% do editing in Lightroom. I also like the organising element of Lightroom too, I never go into the hard drive storage folders as everything I'd done in Lightroom. I also now only need to export final images when I need them and that means I can set up for their intended use (printing, website display, Flickr etc) rather than have lots of hard drive space taken up by them.

These free training videos are worth a look at if you decide to go with Lightroom. It may be Lightroom 4 but majority of the information is relevant to Lightroom 6, it's just buttons may be in different places.

http://en.elephorm.com/tuto-lightroom-4-complete-training/lightroom-4-introduction.html

Thanks for that. I have previously only worked with JPEG but must also experiment with RAW. So LR it is.

Firstly do you use RAW or JPEG? If it's JPEG it may be worth looking at the free software like Picaso. It's th first editing program I used for enhancing JPEGs.

I first started editing RAWs with PSE, I had a really long winded workflow to get from RAW to edited JPEG. After 18 moths I finally decided to try Lightroom, 5 years later I haven't looked back. I do 99% do editing in Lightroom. I also like the organising element of Lightroom too, I never go into the hard drive storage folders as everything I'd done in Lightroom. I also now only need to export final images when I need them and that means I can set up for their intended use (printing, website display, Flickr etc) rather than have lots of hard drive space taken up by them.

These free training videos are worth a look at if you decide to go with Lightroom. It may be Lightroom 4 but majority of the information is relevant to Lightroom 6, it's just buttons may be in different places.

http://en.elephorm.com/tuto-lightroom-4-complete-training/lightroom-4-introduction.html

The Adobe Creative Cloud subscription gets you both LR and PS for about £8 per month and seems like a fair deal. Personally being quite new to photo editing as well I would say I use LR 90% of the time and PS only when I'm bored and messing about. LR can do all the things you need to clean up and enhance a photo, PS is much more about image manipulation, that said PS can do pretty much anything that LR can do but it may be a bit more difficult to work out how.

Thanks Sirch. Yes I have 2 very informative replies and LR it is.

 

[wave01]

I would try lightroom and photoshop for the trial period then decide