Contact usOur computer repair customers from all around Sydney often ask us whether they should be using Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom for computer photo editing. Let’s go through some pros and cons of both programs. We realise this has nothing to do with our usual topic of computer repairs but we hope you will forgive us.
Adobe Lightroom was designed for photographers who want to use comuters for editing. Lightroom has tools to make routine photo fixing tasks easier than using equivalent tools in Photoshop. You can use both programs side by side. A lot of photographers tends to use Lightroom for a lot of the routine work and save Photoshop for advanced photographic repairs. Lightroom lets you makes global edits to your photos in a non-destructive manner as the changes in the Lightroom images aren’t rendered to the file until your export it. In Lightroom, you can copy changes from your images in one or two keystrokes. In photoshop you would need to open all of your images, makes your changes and then save them or write an action to do the world.
Adobe Lightroom was designed for photographers who want to use comuters for editing. Lightroom has tools to make routine photo fixing tasks easier than using equivalent tools in Photoshop. You can use both programs side by side. A lot of photographers tends to use Lightroom for a lot of the routine work and save Photoshop for advanced photographic repairs. Lightroom lets you makes global edits to your photos in a non-destructive manner as the changes in the Lightroom images aren’t rendered to the file until your export it. In Lightroom, you can copy changes from your images in one or two keystrokes. In photoshop you would need to open all of your images, makes your changes and then save them or write an action to do the world.
A major difference between Lightroom and photoshop is that Lightroom does not have any filters. Filters were a key part of what made photoshop part of the computer software landscape. As such this is a serious downside if you want to take serious artistic license to your photo. Furthermore, if you want to do pixel editing, you will need Photoshop or another program that supports pixel editing. Also, Lightroom does not support the use of layers or blend modes so you can’t make a collage or composite image.
Here is an example of Photoshop's filter option, which Lightroom does not support.
We compared Lightroom and Photoshop and found that there is little you can do in Lightroom that you can’t do in Photoshop. However, there are numerous functions that Photoshop has that Lightroom does not offer.Therefore, we recommend Lightroom for making basic routine computer edits faster and easier and Photoshop should be reversed for the heavy duty editing.
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