Selecting a region changes the language and/or content on. The best way to discover what works for you is to have fun and experiment until you find your perfect editing process. Now that you know the differences between the two, you can design your workflow to create the photos you want. Ultimately, the choice between Lightroom and Photoshop comes down to the goals of your creative projects and your personal preference. Discover all the photography apps included in the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan. Or you can take your edits completely mobile with Adobe Photoshop Express and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for mobile. Overall, you get the added advantage of mobility and ease of use in the Lightroom mobile, which might be an issue to carry your laptop everywhere for the same. It has the same features, same functionality and even better ease of use. Photoshop includes Adobe Bridge, used to manage many file types, and Adobe Camera Raw, which features the same world-class image processing engine as Lightroom. Lightroom Classic CC is no different than the Lightroom mobile. Photoshop and Lightroom are both excellent photo editing software options, but they’re not the only ones out there. You can process a photo in Lightroom and then press command E or control E to pass it off to Photoshop, where you can fine-tune it. The two are designed to work seamlessly with each other.
Photoshop specializes in greater control to achieve more expansive edits that will help you make a few images look flawless. If you want, you can also try out one of the AI apps to do the heavy bulk lifting, leaving you with staying in PS for your edits.Knowing the differences between Lightroom and Photoshop will help you pick the best image editor for a given project, but in many cases, it’s not an either-or decision. On a high level, Lightroom is the best tool to manage and process the thousands of photos that live on your devices. There may by some other programs that might work better with your workflow, but from what I've seen from other software from Adobe is that really 2 apps are needed: one for bulk editing and catalog management (like LR), and another app for extensive editing of specific photos (like PS). Then just a few seconds to save from PS back to LR. If you have PS open in the background, it only takes a few seconds for the photo to come up when I open from LR. Then I flag this new photo as the one I will deliver (mark it as green in my workflow). Then when I save in Photoshop, it creates a copy of the photo with final edits in Lightroom right next to the original. I use right-click "open in Photoshop" to do specific edits I need. I do use Lightroom Classic though as well for my bulk editing (culling, color correction, exposure, cropping, straightening/alignment, etc). I agree with /u/Mercutio999 on my LR and PS usage.
Until then, I'm curious if any of you have a solution to this or have any wisdom to share on what you think works best? Thanks a bunch!ĮDIT: Thanks everyone for your replies! It seems like my process isn’t anything out of the ordinary, which is very reassuring! I would like to use PS for a majority of my work until they bring LR up to that standard. However, I LOVE how powerful Photoshop is, but they don't make it easy to use on large batches of photos, and I feel like my editing time per collection would increase dramatically if I made the switch. Lightroom is fantastic for creating collections, color correcting, and other minor adjustments in bulk. That's worked so far for me since I have a very naturalistic/documentary style, but I'd really like to have a bit more control of my editing in the future. Since I started this journey, I've been using Lightroom for about 80% of my editing, and pull photos that need a little extra work into Photoshop when I need to. One thing that I'm still figuring out is how best to organize my photo collections and how to best edit them. Hey folks! So I've been shooting weddings for about 4 years now and have been learning a lot along the way. Mark Condon: Wedding Photographer & founder Writing discussion Drew of creative writing studio Tense Only to be used to link/share photographic portfolio work, not other businesses or non-work content.How to add site/social link to your user name No requests/trading of copyrighted content such as workshops/presets We are here to learn from each other and give constructive criticism when requested. Even when they were totally different products, the Photoshop vs Lightroom conundrum was never really an either/or proposition. No posting of wedding/engagement portfolio images/shoots as stand alone threads (use official weekly sharing threads)
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