And then, of course, CS5 also has something Lightroom doesn’t have: the 800-pound gorilla of the photo-software world, Photoshop itself.
Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), also included with CS5, is essentially identical to Lightroom’s Develop module. Bridge, a separate application included with CS5, contains most of the viewing, sorting, and keywording functions of Lightroom’s Library module. In comparing these programs, it’s important to realize that Photoshop CS5 includes almost all the functionality of Lightroom, and more. And you can process large numbers of images fairly efficiently with Photoshop CS5-but Lightroom is faster and, for most people, easier to learn. You can make beautiful, big prints with Lightroom and Elements-but the full version of Photoshop will give you some extra tools that Lightroom and Elements don’t have. Of course it’s not quite that neat and simple. If you don’t need perfection, want to process many images efficiently, and/or wish to spend less time learning software, then get Lightroom. So here’s a slightly longer answer: If you want to wring every ounce of perfection out of a few images, make big prints from them, and don’t mind learning a complicated piece of software, then take the plunge and buy Photoshop CS5. But I’ll assume that people ask me this because they can’t afford both, or don’t want to learn two different programs. Here’s the simplest solution to the Lightroom vs. But then Apple launched Aperture, Adobe countered with Lightroom, Nikon and Canon upgraded their software, and a host of other companies added even more options.įor now I’m going to keep this simple and just talk about Lightroom and Photoshop-mainly because these are the two most popular choices, but also because they’re the two applications I’m most familiar with, and they’re natural choices for people wishing to graduate from Adobe’s other photo-editing program, Elements. If you wanted to upgrade from Elements, the full version of Photoshop was the only real choice. Six years ago this was an easy decision, because Lightroom didn’t exist. “Should I get Lightroom or Photoshop?” This is a question I get asked a lot, usually by people who own Photoshop Elements and are thinking of upgrading to either Lightroom or the full version of Photoshop.
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