As a benefit of my flash course, I'm entitled to student reductions of
some Adobe software. In particular, both Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5
are available at significant discounts. I already have PS Elements 8,
so my question concerns the relative merits and use (casual in my case)
of these three software. As my images are scans from film, things like
RAW processing are not a priority.
PS Elements does a good many things, though I gather its significant
limitations (I'm sure there are others) include the lack of layers and
adjustable curves. PS proper is at the other end of the scale and
likely overkill for me, without serious study and use.
My real question is where Lightroom fits in the picture (pun intended)?
I've been through the info on the Adobe website, and I'm still at a bit
of a loss what to make of it. It would appear to offer significant
editing capacities, which are undescribed but presumably less than PS
("it works seamlessly with PS", or something like that). It's also not
clear whether it offers greater or just different editing capacities to
PSE. Lightroom seems to emphasize workflow issues like managing and
distributing images, as much as it does editing.
There are list members who use Lightroom and PS (maybe separately or
together), I'd be grateful to hear their comments on the relative
merits/limitations of the software.
On topic: the images are made with an OM!
Martin
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