Photoshop CS6 or Light room

WayneScott

I want to replace my photoshop 7

What would be best Photoshop CS6 or Light room. Which one do you guys prefer? Is light room as good for editing etc

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I use light room 5 and it's perfect for me. It would depend really on what you want. We have CS6 in work and rarely use it. The interface in Lightroom is much more appealing to me.

W0LFMAN

Photoshop 6 Fan here<-- find it can do all light room stuff and more.

Depends on what your willing to get used too.

Spending majority time on one, and familiarizing yourself with it will favor the other.

Heebie

It's not a good question.
They are different tools for different jobs.
If you're looking to quickly process lots of photos for a photoshoot, then Lightroom is the right tool.
If you're looking to to heavy editing, compositing, restoration etc.., then Photoshop is the right tool.
Bridge, that comes with Photoshop, will help you organise photos, but it's not nearly as powerful as Lightroom.

D.S.

Heebie wrote: »

It's not a good question.
They are different tools for different jobs.
If you're looking to quickly process lots of photos for a photoshoot, then Lightroom is the right tool.
If you're looking to to heavy editing, compositing, restoration etc.., then Photoshop is the right tool.
Bridge, that comes with Photoshop, will help you organise photos, but it's not nearly as powerful as Lightroom.

+1 to this.

Lightroom is for managing lots of photos - in term of developing / key wording / rating / distributing. Generally speaking, you can do this to many photos at once (through syncing). Photoshop is for advanced editing one photo at a time.

90% of your photos could be edited and managed in lightroom alone. Depending on how much you like to process and the type of processing you do, then photoshop might be needed.

I have both. Signed up for the 9.99 deal (Aussie dollar, living in Melbourne right now) and I find I use them both every day. Lightroom does the vast majority of my work, but my favourite work almost always goes through photoshop where I have the most control and post processing options.

WayneScott

D.S. wrote: »

+1 to this.

Lightroom is for managing lots of photos - in term of developing / key wording / rating / distributing. Generally speaking, you can do this to many photos at once (through syncing). Photoshop is for advanced editing one photo at a time.

90% of your photos could be edited and managed in lightroom alone. Depending on how much you like to process and the type of processing you do, then photoshop might be needed.

I have both. Signed up for the 9.99 deal (Aussie dollar, living in Melbourne right now) and I find I use them both every day. Lightroom does the vast majority of my work, but my favourite work almost always goes through photoshop where I have the most control and post processing options.

When you resize and crop in LR am i correct that the grid does not move toshow where your object is on the rule of thirds as the crop gets smaller?

Like cropping and straightening see how the grid moves here with the black pug

@everyone thanks for the feedback

D.S.

WayneScott wrote: »

When you resize and crop in LR am i correct that the grid does not move toshow where your object is on the rule of thirds as the crop gets smaller?

Like cropping and straightening see how the grid moves here with the black pug

@everyone thanks for the feedback

To be honest, I am not sure if I fully understood your question. But if I have, I think you mean that it appears in LR that the crop grid is fixed and in PS is not? I guess you are trying to align your capture to the rule of thirds as per your video. If you click and hold and move your mouse while holding the image in LR you can align to the rule of thirds. This allows you to move the image underneath the grid.

When cropping in PS vrs LR remember that in PS you lose the pixels from the edited file. That means if you crop and save, you can't go back if you change your mind. In LR, you can always reset / recrop at any time.

Personally, I crop in LR, export a copy into PS and work on that edited version. If I need to recrop again (e.g. print), I'd generally use PS as I like the flexibility around resizing that's in there.

If cropping and you plan to print the image later, be careful around pixels. Cut too much, and your print could be affected (depending on the size you print at).

WayneScott

D.S. wrote: »

To be honest, I am not sure if I fully understood your question. But if I have, I think you mean that it appears in LR that the crop grid is fixed and in PS is not? I guess you are trying to align your capture to the rule of thirds as per your video. If you click and hold and move your mouse while holding the image in LR you can align to the rule of thirds. This allows you to move the image underneath the grid.

When cropping in PS vrs LR remember that in PS you lose the pixels from the edited file. That means if you crop and save, you can't go back if you change your mind. In LR, you can always reset / recrop at any time.

Personally, I crop in LR, export a copy into PS and work on that edited version. If I need to recrop again (e.g. print), I'd generally use PS as I like the flexibility around resizing that's in there.

If cropping and you plan to print the image later, be careful around pixels. Cut too much, and your print could be affected (depending on the size you print at).

Thanks for that explanation;)

ado100

WayneScott wrote: »

I want to replace my photoshop 7

What would be best Photoshop CS6 or Light room. Which one do you guys prefer? Is light room as good for editing etc

If you can, get both as they each do very different jobs.

For colour balance, cropping and batch processing, Lightroom is perfect and is non-destructive, so you can revert or tweak your settings at any point without having to keep multiple copies. If on the other hand, you need to remove power lines from an otherwise beautiful landscape or get rid of the drunk uncle in the wedding shot, then Photoshop is your man.

Both of course do far more than the above, there is a very good tutorial about how the two software packages can work together on lynda.com

dnme

Of you have LR4, whats the story with 5, is it a free upgrade or do you have to pay full whack ?

flyingsnail

dnme wrote: »

Of you have LR4, whats the story with 5, is it a free upgrade or do you have to pay full whack ?

It is not full price but you do have to pay to upgrade