Photoshop Vs Lightroom

Pretty interesting article that discusses things to consider when trying to choose between Lightroom and Photoshop. I think most of the same comments apply when trying to choose between Aperture and Photoshop as well.

There are a number of discrepancies in that article. For one thing, Photoshop was not developed as a graphics editing program.

I was about to post a question on this forum asking for advice on which software suite to use for basic editing (cropping, lighting, contrast, limunance, etc) But it seems the article you mentioned is a good primer on the subject. Nice article!

For photo editing, colours, balance, exposure etc and a better crop facility than Photoshop Lightroom is fantastic, I can process a full festival weekends photos quickly and easily, the option to export straight to Flickr or even my own website is simply brilliant, its a fast and relatively easy photo editing package. If however you want to get ultra creative, use layers adn get really into the more artistic/creative side of photo editing then Lightroom isn't good, photoshop (even Elements) has more power for doing big things to photos. Horses for courses, I use Lightroom as my day in day out package, I can get through 2000+ photos in a day with ease, but if I want to be creative and stich 8 photos together into a landscape, then make it into some sort of colour pop or create a band poster Photoshop gets dusted off. With my main type of photography being gig I could live without Photoshop and just use Lightroom, but every so often the bug bites and I'm off into layers and trying to make what I can see in my head LOL
Hope that helps a little.

Both have their places.

I remember having it explained to me at a Kelby Training seminar somewhere that Adobe intends for photographers to use Lightroom, Photoshop and Camera Raw together as part of their workflow.

I use Lightroom most of the time, but do sometimes go into Photoshop. Camera Raw is the part of the picture I just haven't used much.

I've had several die-hard Photoshop users question me about why they'd ever want Lightroom.. and then when I show them how it works, they end up buying it

There have been a LOT of $150 Lightroom sales lately, Amazon, direct from Adobe, etc. Heck of a deal at that price.

I started out using Photoshop and camera Raw for my photos but lately seem to lean towards Lightroom. I like to touch up my photos and leave them as natural as possible (ya know change to black n white, play with exposure...that sorta thing). I found that the only I ended up using Photoshop for was to watermark then I discovered that Lightroom does that and a lot easier too. So I don't even use Photoshop anymore....just Lightroom and I like that. So much so that I would rather spend $300 to get LR 3 compared to the $700 on CS5....and not cuz I'm saving a couple of hundred dollars. It's just that, for what I'm paying, I actually use LR...if it was the other way around I would get CS5 over LR, no matter what the extra cost was.

I started out with elements a while back and then made the jump to CS4. I recently tried out lightroom (still have the trial version on my comp) and after playing with it for a while, I gust do not see where I need it that bad. In CS4, through raw I can do simple color correction on several images at once and then if I want to revisit an image I can. It would not be so bad but the interface in lightroom is so different from CS4 that it makes it more of a PITA IMO. Maybe if I was doing studio work instead of outdoor images it might be different but in my work, every image is different so mass processing an entire day of images for the same adjustments is just out of the question.