If you want to delve into graphic design, Photoshop is your program!.Provides tools for advanced retouching or changing the shape of reality-warping, liquifying, etc.Workflow steps can be saved as actions for easy repetition.Variety of ways to make complicated selections.Advanced cloning that removes cumbersome elements easily.Advanced tools for canvas expansion or image resolution changes.Blend modes, masking, and opacity adjustments.Ability to blend multiple files for head swapping, compositing, adding skies, textures, or other elements that require the use of layers.The power of Photoshop cannot be underestimated, however. I use Photoshop for very specific purposes and tend to save this program for the end of my workflow. Photoshop has many of the same features as Lightroom, especially when you utilize Camera Raw, which is a RAW editor very similar to LR.
Fast and easy photo books, slide shows, and web galleries.Organization with collections and galleries.Built in file management/cataloging system.Here are a few reasons why Lightroom takes center stage for me in my own editing efforts: It works with JPEG too, but you can maximize your image potential if you use this program with RAW files. It can’t be beat for a RAW file workflow. I say primary, because both programs are great to have, but you may be able to manage with one or the other depending on your needs. They do have some overlap, so I want to take you through a few of the pros and cons so you can find the primary program for you. I often get asked which program I like better and sometimes it is like comparing apples to oranges. Can it be done one DVD at a time? Thanks.Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom are the gold standard programs in photo editing and they are great for image management too. Is this possible? If not, I haven't been able to find any procedure outlined anywhere that addresses this specific situation. So Ideally, I want to transfer the thumbnails, tags, metadata, and offline file location information from my PSE Organizer catalog to the Lr Organizer, and I would like to do that without having to load DVDs. I simply don't have the free space available. If I need to move ALL of those offline images to my harddrive before I do the "Upgrade Catalog" command, that will be a huge problem. I'd say 80% of my Organizer catalog is comprised of these offline images and having only the thumbnails in the catalog works great for me.įrom your earlier replies (#9 and #13 above), it sounds like Lr won't transfer these thumbnails when I move the PSE Catalog to Lr. keeping the big image files separate from the catalog (especially images that I rarely need access to, but don't want to remove from the catalog). psd file available and also the name of the DVD of where it lives. psd files to DVD to free up harddrive space, and the Organizer still lets me know that I have that offline. I probably have 30 or so DVDs of images and the PSE organizer tracks all of them flawlessly. Then, if I ever need to access the full image, I simply put in the DVD and the full image is instantly available, where it can be moved back to the harddrive if needed for edits or printing. This allows me to see the image as a large thumbnail in the Organizer, complete with all the tags, but keeps the huge files off my hard drive and puts them on inexpensive, reliable media. To save disk space, my process is to import RAW files into PSE Organizer, tag them, rate them, then move the images to a DVD. I think the biggest concern that I have at this point is how this catalog transfer process will deal with my PSE images that I have stored offline on DVDs.