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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 297930" data-attributes="member: 9240">If you don't consider Smart Fill (which is very different from the Smart Healing brush), Elements can do about 95% of the work that I currently do in Photoshop.&nbsp; I suspect that were they to put Smart Fill in Elements they'd lose a lot of Photoshop customers.&nbsp; LR + PSE is all most amateur photographers will ever need in terms of tools.&nbsp; The rest is just a matter of making the work easier/less time consuming.Ultimately, while you can knock the cloud all you want, for $11/month ($132/year) with tax, I believe that anyone who is tied into the products will save money.&nbsp; LR has been upgraded twice since I started using it in 2012, and is due for another upgrade in the next 6 months.&nbsp; Had I started using the cloud in 2012 (were it available) I would have spent less in the subscription than I paid to maintain Lightroom alone (1 initial purchase and 2 upgrades).&nbsp; I understand why folks balk, and they have every right to do it.&nbsp; But to anyone whose art relies on their products, I do believe that the current pricing structure is more than fair provided that the product updates continue as they have thus far.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 297930, member: 9240"] If you don't consider Smart Fill (which is [I]very[/I] different from the Smart Healing brush), Elements can do about 95% of the work that I currently do in Photoshop. I suspect that were they to put Smart Fill in Elements they'd lose a lot of Photoshop customers. LR + PSE is all most amateur photographers will ever need in terms of tools. The rest is just a matter of making the work easier/less time consuming. Ultimately, while you can knock the cloud all you want, for $11/month ($132/year) with tax, I believe that anyone who is tied into the products will save money. LR has been upgraded twice since I started using it in 2012, and is due for another upgrade in the next 6 months. Had I started using the cloud in 2012 (were it available) I would have spent less in the subscription than I paid to maintain Lightroom alone (1 initial purchase and 2 upgrades). I understand why folks balk, and they have every right to do it. But to anyone whose art relies on their products, I do believe that the current pricing structure is more than fair provided that the product updates continue as they have thus far. [/QUOTE]

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