Photoshop and/or Lightroom 3

[tommyg]

Interested in which people use, or combination of the 2?

Which is best for what etc.

Personally I use the nikon view nx2 (3 computers and 2 people looking at photos) and photoshop cs5, but if I can work out how to use Lightroom properly I feel it might be a better choice
Cheers
Tom

[Mj]

Tom,

Lightroom is great for viewing, cataloging, sorting, culling and doing some over all adjustments (exposure setting etc).
Often I find a quick check, crop and a few adjustments are all that are needed and I'm done.
Lightroom is great for that and it has quite a bit of selective editing capability too.

If I'm looking to get more creative then I save to tiff and do the rest in PS where layers and other tools can turn an average shot into a piece of art depending on your vision, patience and current PS skill level.

In short a combination of the two is the only way to fly.

cheers,

Michael.

[Wink]

[ATJ]

Lightroom is all I use. I try to get the photo as right as possible when I take it and want to spend as little time as possible playing with it, so Lightroom works well for me. I can adjust white balance, shadows, etc. and even a bit of cloning (which is often necessary with shots taken in less than clear water).

[Remorhaz]

Agree - pretty much everything is just with Lightroom. I might use Photoshop with one in a thousand shots nowadays.

[Murray Foote]

Lightroom is my primary tool but I use both.

I use Lightroom as a database, for selecting and eliminating images and for applying overall corrections including bulk corrections. Some regional corrections I apply in Lightroom but most in Photoshop because it is much more powerful, especially with the new masking of CS5. Also I use NeatImage in Photoshop for noise reduction and usually use PK Sharpener in Photoshop for sharpening because in both cases They have much more control and are much more powerful. I also use Photoshop for HDR, focus blending and pano blending on occasion

[stubbsy]

Lightroom is my primary tool but I use both.

I use Lightroom as a database, for selecting and eliminating images and for applying overall corrections including bulk corrections. Some regional corrections I apply in Lightroom but most in Photoshop because it is much more powerful... I also use Photoshop for HDR, focus blending and pano blending on occasion

What Murray said above is the case for me too, although interestingly since getting the Lightroom version of the Nik software suite I'm doing more in LR than CS5 (including my HDRs now that there is Nik HDR Efex Pro) with a visit to CS5 only when I want to do multiple things (eg HDR and denoise) or to brush on a Nik tool's results.

[devilla101]

Tom,

Lightroom is great for viewing, cataloging, sorting, culling and doing some over all adjustments (exposure setting etc).
Often I find a quick check, crop and a few adjustments are all that are needed and I'm done.
Lightroom is great for that and it has quite a bit of selective editing capability too.

If I'm looking to get more creative then I save to tiff and do the rest in PS where layers and other tools can turn an average shot into a piece of art depending on your vision, patience and current PS skill level.

In short a combination of the two is the only way to fly.

cheers,

Michael.

this is pretty much the same thing with me.

[spesh]

LR3 gets the fair bit of work with PS CS5 used if I need to crop out or adjust something that LR cannot do.

[Aussie Dave]

My use:
Lightroom for general global adjustments (Exp, WB, cropping etc.) & for cataloguing, image re-sizing (mainly for web pics or happy-snap 6x4 prints), file renaming, file viewing, etc...

Photoshop for photo retouching, specific or advanced adjustments/retouching, image resizing (for important photos, which generally also involve some form of re-touching)

Dave