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In article <2014031310490216201-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

photoshop is an extremely capable image editing app but it lacks some of the stuff lightroom has.

Savageduck
Other than the cataloging/library features they are very similar animals even down to using the same RAW processing engine. Once you consider PS comes with Bridge, you just have a slightly different workflow to learn to gain similar benefits from either LR or PS.

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bridge sucks.

Tony Cooper
And vice-versa. LR lacks some things PS has. The better system is having both LR and either CS or Elements.

Savageduck
For most photography oriented folks LR is all that is needed.

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agreed but it sounds like he wants to do fancier things than what lightroom is suited for.

Savageduck
Once you add in a need for major cutting & pasting, then PSE or CS6/CC should be added. Also, if you are doing any compositing, PSE won't cut it, then the LR5 + PS CS6/CC workflow option is the way to go.

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right.

Savageduck
RAW processing with the version of ACR packaged with PSE is well short of the features found in LR5 and PS CS6/CC.

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eventually maybe, but it's nothing that matters right now.