Whats the difference between Photoshop Elements and Lightroom?

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I've just been on the Adobe site and read lots of wonderful marketing text, but I still don't know the difference.

I know the CS is the big daddy, but are there a number of versions between Elements and CS and whats the difference (in plain english ;) )
 
Elements is the "Baby" version of Photoshop. It allows you to edit images and make and make adjustments such as cloning and similar . Lightroom is a cataloging program that has very powerful image processing controls, but doesn't allow editing at the pixel level, such as you would do with Elememts.

Also Lightroom is designed to work with images that have been saved as a RAW file. Although it can work with JPEGS the additional data a RAW files has allow significant adjustments to be made, which may not be the case with a normal JPEG image.

You can download a trial version of each, so try them out and see what you think. With both tough I would recommend looking at videos o the web so that you get some idea as to their capabilities so that you get the most out of the 30 day trial
 
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