It’s the power to bring pieces together in separate layers that gives you flexibility only limited by your imagination, and your mastery of the tools. But when I have to design a brochure, add text, incorporate images together, Photoshop is king. 3D artists do this all the time as a common example.Īs a heavy Lightroom user, I see Photoshop as a ‘finishing tool’ for my images. You can import your Illustrator file and add some real world atmosphere and texture to bring your picture into ‘reality’. For example, you might have produced a great image in Lightroom, but in Photoshop, you can add a texture layer that transforms your image into a ‘painting'. Pixels lets the user combine images and pieces of images in new and interesting ways. The ability to work in layers and to mask, rather than delete. All of these programs can open their files (and vice versa in many instances) in Photoshop because in there are the tools to really go to town and make your images do things. Lightroom handles photos with speed and precision. InDesign does layout for publishing better. Adobe Illustrator does illustration better. Photoshop has its roots in making Star Wars look more realistic, and easier to make. It makes it possible to illustrate the impossible – or to at least improve on reality. Its influence and involvement in the recent history of art and image expression cannot be understated. Photoshop is the granddaddy of all image editing software. This means there are some things you just can’t do. Lightroom stores changes to pixels, while keeping the original file untouched. Once again, it’s because Lightroom is for photographers, and very few of us come back with just one picture.īy now, you’ve probably twigged that Lightroom is a play on ‘dark room.’ And everything you used to do in a darkroom (and a heck of a lot more) is now at your fingertips without the mystery, complexity,cost of chemicals and hardware, or even a dedicated space.īut due to the focus of Lightroom’s functions, there are limits. You can directly compare images against each other. You can create collections and selections of images. You can copy and paste your changes from one image in Lightroom to any and all other images. Photoshop just opens one file at a time, and you have to use Adobe Bridge, a separate, but very powerful in its own right, program, to manage all your files.
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You can import hundreds (thousands in my case) of images and effectively organise and archive them. You have lots of photos, yeah? Lightroom understands that. And here’s the kicker: all the tools in Lightroom are included in in Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) in Photoshop. Well, given that you can get both together at a very low price via Adobe’s CC (cloud) program – you don’t have to decide.
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