{"id":2320,"date":"2015-05-03T15:16:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2015-05-03T15:16:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T22:16:12","slug":"lightroom-vs-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/lightroom-vs-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom vs Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of photographers are using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6<\/a>\"\"\u00a0to process their digital images. I do use Lightroom (LR) to catalogue images, and for some very basic edits, but I find Photoshop to be much better and more versatile. In fact, if I had to choose one program or the other it would be Photoshop hands down.<\/p>\n

There are a number of digital photograph catalogue (digital asset management or DAM) programs to help organize and find images, and I will say LR is among the best. However even the new Lightroom 6 that just came out is fine for general cropping and even some toning, but Photoshop is better for any fine work.<\/p>\n

For example, LR does spot removal (for removing dust spots on photos) but doesn’t really hold a candle to Photoshop. Below is a crop from an image that has a dust mark:<\/p>\n

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cropped section showing dust mark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Using the dust removal tool in LR:<\/p>\n

\"lr-retouch\"<\/p>\n

Not bad, but the branch doesn’t really look right, so lets try Photoshop’s heal tool<\/p>\n

\"ps-retouch\"<\/p>\n

Not perfect, but much better.<\/p>\n

Now granted this is a very small area of an image, and further granted that it is a relatively tough area to retouch, but this illustrates one of the problems with Lightroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lightroom is very good, but it is not as good as Photoshop, and since Photoshop is only $10 per month (and you get a free version of Lightroom thrown in…) I will stick with the best image editor…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of photographers are using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6\u00a0to process their digital images. I do use Lightroom (LR) to catalogue images, and for some very basic edits, but I find Photoshop to be much better and more versatile. In fact, if I had to choose one program or the other it would be Photoshop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,6,20],"tags":[30,57,55,59],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bas-retouch","category-easy","category-computers","category-retouching","tag-craft","tag-lightroom","tag-photoshop","tag-retouching","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}