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In article <2014031319381598839-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

Savageduck
LR can handle all else and more, including access to the NIK Collection, and OnOne (Which gives you Perfect Layers to use with LR).

Tony Cooper
Well, if you go out of LR to use a plug-in, that's about the same as going out of LR to use PS.

Savageduck
However, if all you have on your computer is LR5 and the NIK Collection, or the OnOne Suite, you still have a very powerful editing/adjustment tool without the intervention of PS. The competent LR% users is going to be able to survive quite well without invoking PS.

Damn! Did I type that last sentence? It should read: "The competent LR5 user is going to be able to survive quite well without invoking PS."

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even for not so competent users.

the number of tasks for which photoshop (any version) is needed that can't be done in lightroom grows smaller all the time.