kennoyce wrote:
Tab5crux wrote:
Personally I'm planning on just light touch up. Little adjustment just to fix a few things. Pretty basic changes and tweaks. I have had CS2 and was pretty familiar/proficient at it , but lost the software so I'm familiar with that platform. The standard editing software that came with my camera just doesn't come close to meeting what I need. So what is the difference between CS5 and Lightroom?
If you just need a few basic changes and tweaks then you should probably just go with photoshop elements. You could also try downloading GIMP (it's free and does a lot). As far as the difference between Elements, Lightroom, and CS5, Lightroom is mostly just a RAW processer so it doesn't have nearly the editing capabilities of CS5, and elements is a stripped down version of CS5 without the RAW capabilities (the RAW processing is so stripped down that it is practically useless).
So if you are talking basic editing of jpegs, go with elements, if you are talking about basic editing of RAW, go with Lightroom, if you want free, go with GIMP, and if you want the best capabilities, go with CS5.
