Lightroom v2 or CS2

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I am looking into whether to use Lightroom v2 or Photoshop CS2 (with Bridge) as my main image editing programme - has anyone discussed the various pro's and con's of each?

I like Lightrooms interface and the ability to quickly make adjustments, whereas CS2 seems a bit more heavyweight/cumbersome and I am not the biggest fan of Bridge......

so which should I go for, and why:shrug:
 
Two different programs really. LR is more about working with a database of images and processing raw files. V2 introduced a limited amount of local editing but is nowhere near as powerful as CS2 in that regard. If you think you'll be doing a lot of post work AND have to deal with a large number of images then you really need both. LR to process and organise the RAW files which are then exported to CS2 for final editing.

If your editing isn't much more than exposure/colour adjustments with the occasional bit of spot removal, etc. then LR might be all you need.
 
pxl8 said:
If your editing isn't much more than exposure/colour adjustments with the occasional bit of spot removal, etc. then LR might be all you need.
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:agree:

I might add that if you occasionally need a bit more processing than Lightroom can give but don't need the full weight of Photoshop then maybe Elements will be an option.

The LR / PSE combination works for me. Most of my processing in LR with occasional cloning / blending of 2 images in Elements.
 
It depends on your style. I mainly take sports pictures, so lots of pictures which need editing quickly, I use Lightroom 2.0 and it is great for this. On the otherhand, my Dad takes mainly landscape shots, so only a harndfull and does a lot of PP, so finds CS2 better for him.
 
i went to a wedding over the weekend (First as a "photographer" :P) and took a stack of pictures - I imported them into lightroom and have amended the exposure and lighting on a lot of them - the evening disco was very dark so had to tweak a lot of those...

what i dont like about LR is that when i make these changes that they arent committed to the DNG file on my disk - which means if i want to flip from LR today into CS2 tomorrow to do something else, I have to do an export to a TIFF or some other file format?

at least with bridge its a tad easier than that, but i do love lightroom for the speed of doing simple adjustments etc!???

that leads me onto the "how should i be working with files" dilemma - currently i just use DNG and retain them as those files (i.e. dont convert to JPEG after editing/tweaking) - but i'm not sure thats the right thing to be doing?!- there again, I dont see why I need a DNG and JPEG of EVERY picture I take!?

thoughts???:thinking::help:
 
Have you got the right changes to XMP box ticked in Lightroom?
 
think of the dng as your negative and your jpeg as your print
 
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