![]() What “Creative Cloud” means is that when you launch either Lightroom or Photoshop the software is going to make calls out over the Internet to make sure you have paid your licensing fee for that month. Lightroom and Photoshop are both still programs that you download and run from your computer. While there is some limited functionality of both programs available in a browser, that is not what “Creative Cloud” means. That term, “Creative Cloud”, has been misunderstood by many to think that it means Lightroom and Photoshop now run in a browser. The only way to get the fully updated versions of either program since then is through a Creative Cloud subscription. Adobe stopped updating the perpetual licensed versions of Lightroom and Photoshop in 2015. Back before 2015 when both products were available as perpetually licensed software (pay once) Lightroom was affordable for a beginner and Photoshop simply was not. It used to be that from purely a cost perspective the advice was that beginners should start off with Lightroom and add Photoshop later. Photoshop is a powerful program designed to do very detailed and difficult photo editing one photo at a time using techniques like HDR and panorama merging, focus stacking, perspective stacking, layer masking, and luminosity masking (a special kind of layer masking). Things like taking a person out of a photo, or adding a person into a photo who wasn’t actually there when it was taken. Everybody says that things can be “photoshopped” to fix them or change them. The name of the program has become a verb because of the powerful things that can be done to a photo. However, there are a few things Photoshop can do a lot better than Lightroom. Photoshop FunctionalityĪfter going through the Lightroom functionality you might wonder why you would need Photoshop, and for a huge portion of your digital photo needs that is true. You can change the exposure of the photo, change the color cast (photographers call it white balance) of the photo, add sharpening, reduce noise, fix redeye, and even do a little bit of object removal using Lightroom. Lightroom also offers the ability to edit photos. You can also mark photos from a shoot that you want to keep versus those that are just plain bad (culling). It offers a way to catalog your photos, apply keywords to them, search through the photos by those keywords and by other attributes like what camera/lens was used to take the photo. Lightroom offers functionality to manager your photos, something photographers call Digital Asset Management or DAM for short. Let’s walk through the functions each can do a little here. Lightroom and Photoshop are very different programs. This post explains exactly what each is and how to choose between them. ![]() Then there is the confusion about how Photoshop fits into things because most everyone knows that Photoshop is THE editor for photos. Adobe isn’t doing themselves any favors having two products (Lightroom and Lightroom Classic) named so similarly.
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