PS Elements - Worthwhile addition to LR or not...?

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Hi - I have read through several of the LR v PS posts here and gather there are strong supportes in both camps..

My slightly different question is that I already have and like LightRoom 2. I use it to import my photos, then do some basic editing (exposure/contrast/fill light/crops etc)

I then export them to Iphoto as a storage device and delete from LR which I know is clunky and longwinded but I use my photos as a screen saver and LR didn't offer this...

Anyway my question is this... I'd like to be able to edit my images better, ie cloning removing spots/shadows etc, which I can't work out how to do in LR so was considering getting PS... does it do a lot more than LR in the Elements version or would it be basically the same and so not worth the money?

Thanks
 
I can't vouch for lightroom, but I've been using PS Elements for years & found it can do pretty much everything I want, I've had a play around with CS5 on a friends setup, but found it very confusing.

He insists that he has much more control (which he has), but it just seems a little pointless, if you just want to get from point A-B a Lada is just as good as a Ferrari.

It's also cheap enough to not worry if you don't use it so much or want to upgrade if you outgrow it.
 
Well exactly - a friend got me a copy of the full PS a few of years back before I switched to MAC - and it completely baffled me! Far too clever for me :lol:

I definitely like the pricetag of elements... :thumbs:
 
Elements is miles better for cloning/healing, and as it does proper selections you have much more control over what your doing, they compliment each other really.
 
Elements doesn't support CMYK so won't be any good for producing CMYK for output. It's not as good at batch operations as CS. It also has bugs in every release and some never seem to go away

Other than that it's brilliant and a bargain

Nick Froome
 
Haha the fact that I have to ask what CMYK is probably means I don't use it!! Care to share?! lol

I can often get pics pretty much how I like them with LR but sometimes feel that if I had PS then I could do some tweaking with my favourites to make them closer to how I want them. ie get rid of random hairs/spots, get rid of something in the background. I find this quite clumsy in LR although I fully accept this is probably pilot error...

I can get it from the Mac App Store for £55 - seems a bargain to me...
 
CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Key)

RGB (Red Green Blue)

As far as I'm aware, it's different shades of the same colours (if that makes sense), presumably you like the pictures you take & have viewed them on your monitor & printed them & been happy with the results?

If so I wouldn't worry about it, I used to know a bloke who worked in the printing industry & knew pretty much every shade of each colour by something he called a 'pantone' & was always going on about how certain shades of certain colours we used weren't accurate. (we just humoured him as they all looked perfect to us - the 'untrained eyes')





HEX (hexadecimal) notation:
 
CMYK is used mostly in the printing industry, if your making books of your photos, or selling to magizines it might come in handy, but even then any good printer should be able to do the conversion for you, it has little use in the photography side of things.
 
I use elements 8 and I am really pleased with it.
 
I recently purchased elements 9 to compliment lr3 and they work very well together. couldn't really justify the outlay for cs5 and I do 90% of my editing in lr3 anyway! So I would say it's a more than worthwhile addition!
 
i use LR3 for most of my work, but there are a few things that have to be done in PE, but they do work very well together
 
Colour computer screens (and lights) produce colours by combining Red Green and Blue (RGB). This is additive colour mixing

Colour printing produces colours by combining Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (key). This is subtractive

Have a look at a cereal box and you'll find colour blocks on a tab folded inside - these are the colours used in the printing process. Simple home colour printing is CMY (printers with 3 cartridges, gives muddy blacks), CMYK (printers with a black cartridge) or sometimes 6-colour

Commercial printing uses lots of different techniques but the more colours, the higher the cost. Spot varnishes and metallic colours are expensive because they require additional printing steps

Pantone is just a way of specifying a particular colour. A Pantone shade is, in theory, perfect & repeatable

Nick Froome
 
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