
Third, and only if I can't do it quickly in Lightroom, I right click on the image in Lightroom and open in Photoshop and do my editing in there.


Many adjustments like contrast, saturation, white, black, shadows and highlights can be adjusted in one image, then applied across hundreds more easily. Second I organize everything in Lightroom making heavy use of Lightroom tags in a hierarchal structure. I am now half way through the first photoshop course (total of 3) in the photography program that I am taking.įirst thing I do is import everything to Lightroom. I just paid for photoshop for two years without using it but have become fairly competent in Lightroom. I would recommend that you get Lightroom and Photoshop. Digital photographs, animations, videos and music exemplify the target areas of media asset management (a sub-category of DAM)." "Digital asset management (DAM) consists of management tasks and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets. Finally I might use photoshop on just a few, say the close up photo of the bride and groom, to get that "something special". If I were, say a wedding or event photog, I would use LR or C1 to process my photos as a batch, then go back and spend 15-20min on each one doing smaller adjustments. You know, the bottom line? Photoshop is considered "the big gun" and is for the artist/photographer types that spend hours and days perfecting a single shot.

Many pros find the tools in Lightroom to be more than sufficient, and also efficient in terms of time, investment, and results. You get to develop, then enhance, and there is a bit more of a logical flow to things. Where as Lightroom is, well, more like a a darkroom. It's a bit like an artists canvas and a set of paints and brushes. Speaking of workflow, photoshop has exactly none. Lightroom is a bit more photographer friendly, and many pros go straight to apps like captureone, or DxO for better workflow. Might I humbly suggest you get a few books? Diving into Photoshop cold is a very steep learning curve, people spend a decade or more just getting competent. You need to use the Adobe Camera Raw plugin. Photoshop can't edit RAW files from any camera directly.
