Hi all, thought I would throw this question out there and see what you think. Does Lightroom do all that Photoshop does in image processing? Thanks for your replies.
Lightroom doesn't do everything that Photoshop does but it's enough for normal photographic images most of the time. It's also easier to use and has the advantage of non-destructive editing. I have both and only use Photoshop occasionally.
They are two different programs, not in competition with each other.
Lightroom is for digital photo management, more like a database for your photographs.
It has a good set of tools for image enhancement, much the same as Adobe Camera Raw.
Photoshop has a lot more advanced tools and you can edit down to pixel level and work on muliple layers.
I imagine a lot of professionals use both.
Lightroom is very good at managing a sequence of photos. You can work on selected key frames in your timelapse and interpolate the rest with LR timelapse. That's what it's good at. Photoshop is an image editing software. Different beast.
as has been already said - they are very different pieces of software. I am in the middle of my months free trial of Lightroom 4, and already I know that I will be buying it. For image enhancement it is much more friendly than photoshop, but if you need to do anything other than basic manipulation, photoshop is where you should go.
I have been able to pull better images (and faster too) from my RAW files with LR4 than I ever could with Photoshop / Adobe Camera Raw.
I just got Lightroom after reading about using either bridge or Lightroom. I used to use bridge for pre processing and then do the rest in photoshop. I tried out Lightroom and it is fantastic! It's great for organising photos and enhancing them but I do use photoshop to enhance them even further. I recommend using Lightroom to organise and edit your images then photoshop to improve the images even further.
LR is great and has a heap of useful features and I use it for time lapse photography as well as image processing. Its more of a photo touch-up batching and database program though where as photoshop is a design and editing program, that's the best way to put things. Have got to upgrade to 4 soon myself, just wish they put gpu acceleration in it though.
