Lightroom or Photoshop CS5

StrayCat

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18 Mar 2011 - 6:18 AM

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I am posting a link to an article on this topic. This is a question I'm asking myself, and if you read the article I link to, your comments would be appreciated.

Lightroom or CS5

witchcraft

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18 Mar 2011 - 9:49 AM

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Aperture

chavender (e2 Member)

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18 Mar 2011 - 11:06 AM

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For me Lightroom is more intuitive in use. CS5 whilst being a very powerful tool attempts to be "all things to all men" and for me has become over compicated
These days I find that most of the time I can do all I need in lightroom 3 with elements 9 for more "complex" adjustments, cloning, selections etc.
Normally I just need to tweak the RAW file, crop a bit and do a bit of dodging and burning in Lightroom. The image management within lightroom is also very fast and powerful.
In short, for me I need both.

Nick_w (e2 Member)

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18 Mar 2011 - 5:20 PM

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NX2 is a brilliant RAW converter unfortunately it's the most unstable software I've used in years even on 64bit machine with vista and 4GB of memory.
To expand on my first post. CS5 can do everything lightroom can.

LR can't do everything CS5 can. Although LR is easier to use to convert RAW.

Chris_L

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18 Mar 2011 - 7:39 PM

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I've stopped using BreezeBrowser Pro. It used to be the first thing I'd use to look at my images. The HQ Preview is fab on JPEGs, better than Faststone etc. It generates web galleries, good batch renaming etc etc. It was one of the first shareware programs I ever bought back in 2005 or so. I never used it for raw conversion though, I'd preview files in it then transfer the pick of them to Photoshop.

I'd probably still use it if it wasn't for two things, I only shoot raw now and I love the way Canon DPP handles the files.

You could sell your Nikon and buy a Canon in order to use DPP but if not then if I were you I'd concentrate on Lightroom it flies through raw files faster than Photoshop, watch a few Lightroom tutorial and workflow videos.

StrayCat

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18 Mar 2011 - 8:04 PM

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I sold my Nikon a couple of years ago; just got a Canon 40D. Where can I get DPP, and what does it stand for?

StrayCat

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18 Mar 2011 - 8:59 PM

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Thanks Chris, excellent site. No, I didn't get a CD, bought it used.

JJGEE

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18 Mar 2011 - 11:02 PM

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Never used most of the features in Elements, so CS would be far too fully featured for my usage.

I found Lightroom easier to learn / use and liked the fact one could just close it down and re-open later and everything you had done ( history) was still there, unlike Elements.

I have also started using Aperture, which is even easier to use than Lightroom, but missing some useful features that Lightroom has. So if you have an Apple computer system then Aperture / Lightroom combination would be my recommendation for general photographic usage.