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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 505318" data-attributes="member: 9240">As a photographer I could live with Lightroom only.  As a creative person I have learned to rely on Photoshop more as a place to assemble the piece parts of my post processing than for the tools that it specifically offers - though I use them extensively as well.  The ability to apply various layer masks and blend modes has become integral to what I do with a photograph and how I apply the output from other programs like the Nik Collection, onOne Perfect Effects, and Topaz Impression, Glow, Simplify, and others.  To do that sort of assembly in Lightroom would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, even with the ability of the onOne and (some) Topaz filters to apply masks and/or blend modes.</blockquote>