Photo editing capabilities: Lightroom vs Photoshop/Photoshop Elements

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  15. dj_paige,

  

  May 25, 2012 9:37 AM   in reply to Biletubes

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  Lightroom has no layers, and cannot merge photos. For work like this, you need Photoshop Elements or the full Photoshop, or other similar image processing program. Fortunately, Lightroom offers smooth workflows to allow you to send a photo to Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements or other), and then receive the adjusted photo back from the other program.

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  16. Biletubes,

  

  May 25, 2012 9:49 AM   in reply to dj_paige

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  Thanks dj_paige. That's helpful.  So it seems like Lightroom and Photoshop complement each other nicely and getting both is the best solution. 

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  17. meansis,

  

  Jun 7, 2012 11:02 AM   in reply to Biletubes

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  thank you, this is very helpful

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  18. dj_paige,

  

  Jun 5, 2012 7:41 AM   in reply to meansis

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  Meansis, you might want to avoid posting your address and phone numbers here in the forums.

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  19. meansis,

  

  Jun 7, 2012 11:00 AM   in reply to dj_paige

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  I Did nt post it on purpuse, could you tell me how to take it out please ,

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  20. thomkane,

  

  Oct 10, 2012 7:26 AM   in reply to F. McLion

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  I am using Picasa as a image organizer and PSE (9) as a real editor (can't afford full PS). I realise that LR also has editing features lacking in PSE and Picasa. If I  still am working at a fairly elementary level is the LR4.2 organizer any better than that of Picasa?

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  21. BonnyDan,

  

  Nov 24, 2012 4:26 PM   in reply to jdur4567

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  I realise this is an old thread, but one important point may have been overlooked.  Lightroom is non-destructive and makes no changes to the original image, whereas Elements allows the original image to be overwritten.

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  22. Jao vdL,

  

  Nov 24, 2012 5:16 PM   in reply to Biletubes

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  Biletubes wrote:

   

  This discussion has been very helpful.  I think I'll get Lightroom but I have one question.  Can you merge separate images into one image with Lightroom?  For example, create a diptych consisting of two images side by side with a narrow whitespace between and around both images? Can you do this in Lightroom without layers?

  That's actually extremely easy with lightroom's Print panel. I do this all the time. The only limitation is that you can only print it or export to a jpeg. Just google "triptych Lightroom" and you'll find 100's of videos showing how to do it but anybody can figure this out with a little playing in the Print Panel.

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  23. mardrucker,

  

  Nov 26, 2012 8:47 AM   in reply to jdur4567

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  This thread was extremely helpful. I've been trying to decide whether I should use Lightroom in addition to Elements or instead of Elements. Now that I know the two can work together, I plan to use them both. Thanks!

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  24. flageborg,

  

  Nov 29, 2012 1:31 AM   in reply to BonnyDan

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  " Lightroom is non-destructive..."

   

  I am quite new to Lightroom, and have spend some time with Elements, but it seems to me that this so-called "non-destructive" behaviour you mention is quite the same as in Elements...

   

  It is always your personal choice to "destruct" and even do a "overwrite" and not to blame the software?!

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  25. F. McLion,

  

  Nov 29, 2012 2:31 AM   in reply to flageborg

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  @flageborg

   

  I am quite new to Lightroom, and have spend some time with Elements, but it seems to me that this so-called "non-destructive" behaviour you mention is quite the same as in Elements...

  Absolutely not! Elements is not a "non-destructive" Software in the same sense as LR is.

  With Elements you always have to save your editings to either the original (overwrite!) or to a full, new copy of the file.

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