Tony Cooper
On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:49:02 -0700, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

Savageduck
On 2014-03-13 17:29:14 +0000, Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com>said:

Tony Cooper
On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 10:54:07 -0400, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

nospam
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.

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.

Tony Cooper
Depends. If "most" is all photographers, then LR is probably sufficient. But, when we talk about "photography oriented" people, the thought is of people who take the photograph from capture to best representation. Then, at least Elements should be part of the post-processing package.

Not to downgrade LR's "Develop" module, but I think the photographer who wants to finish the process is handcuffed without PS in some form.

It takes some care, but not effort. "It's possible" suggests that it's very difficult, and it's not at all very difficult.

nospam
photoshop elements is a terrific way to get started and it's about $50-60. it's more than enough to keep you busy learning for a while. in the event you outgrow it, then you can get photoshop cs/cc.

Tony Cooper
I haven't seen Elements 12 that low, but it is available for less than Adobe's price. I just purchased Elements Premier 12 (video only) for $68.50 from B&H. Adobe lists it at $99.99. B&H was not the lowest price, but they were only about $5.00 higher than most. B&H supplies it on a disk, and I like having the disk.