Tell me why I should use lightroom over photoshop

I've found I can do everything in Camera RAW. No need for LR, IMO.

Awesome lipstick!:thumbs:
 
so does PS CS5 do everything LR can do just not as fast as some folk want? i have both but im at early stages of learning them but mainly use PS CS5 as i cant get my head around LRs filing methods and cant work out how to get my LR images onto Flickr or here, and i find camera RAW does alot of the work i want LR to do. any help would be great

The idea that i can copy and paste effects onto a whole series of photos in LR does sound like an awesome idea, but this is surely something PS or am i wrong?
 
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i cant get my head around LRs filing methods
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It doesn't really matter that much. They're in a database.

It's like worrying about how iTunes stores your music folders on disk. The filesystem is far less relevant.

Use keywords to find stuff. I just go by date YYYY > MM > DD


and cant work out how to get my LR images onto Flickr
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Export JPEGs and upload them.

or

use Jeffrey Friedl's plugin

or

if you have v3.0, it has a Publish to Flickr Service.

The idea that i can copy and paste effects onto a whole series of photos in LR does sound like an awesome idea, but this is surely something PS or am i wrong?
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You'd need an action to open and apply the same processing to every file in a directory with Photoshop. Time consuming.

And then you decided you want to undo one of the changes...
 
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ah right, ok i think im following you, ill have a play around tomorrow when im at home see if i can do what your saying, cheers

i did kinda come to the conclusion that with photoshop that it would be time consuming with regards to applying settings to many photos, i totally get what your saying there
 
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Photoshop is at least 4 times the price of Lightroom - it has loads of stuff photographers DON'T need - at least not very often. Lightroom was designed for digital photography - Photoshop was not! Stick with it - it's well worth it.
 
If you use lightroom, to get the best out of it you have to learn how to use it. Cataloguing, organising etc were all alien to me but I watched the quick video tutorials and it all made sense.

There's some great introduction to Lightroom videos - these are for V2:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/lightroom/articles/lir2am_videotutorials.html
But the principals the same.

Or there's a whole host for V3 on Adobe TV
http://tv.adobe.com/show/getting-started-with-adobe-photoshop-lightroom-3/

Well worth 30-60 mins of your time to watch a few.
 
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