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Elements 9 vs Lightroom 3
Lisa Hall, Photographer
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Oklahoma City | OK | USA | Posted: 5:12 PM on 05.13.11 |
| ->> Seems to me that Elements 9 works perfect for basic editing. I know that Lightroom 3 is great, but does anyone think it is user friendly over Elements? |
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Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 5:33 PM on 05.13.11 |
| ->> Elements does not like 16-bit images. Lightroom loves them. That's the main difference. |
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Curtis Clegg, Photographer
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Sycamore | IL | USA | Posted: 8:10 PM on 05.13.11 |
->> Also, the older versions of Photoshop Elements that I have used didn't allow conversions to CMYK or have Curves (I'm not sure about the latest version). Other than that (plus what Phil mentioned above) it's a very capable product, especially if you don't have a large volume of images to edit.
For basic news assignments where you don't need to do anything other than crop, adjust levels, and add USM to a few photos it's a real bargain. |
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Jim Colburn, Photographer, Photo Editor
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 12:09 PM on 05.14.11 |
->> If you've got a Mac and can adapt to a different interface then Graphic Converter (http://www.lemkesoft.com/) might be all you need, for less than $40.
It will even use Photoshop plug-ins. |
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Mark Sutton, Photographer
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Herndon | VA | USA | Posted: 10:05 PM on 05.14.11 |
| ->> If you shoot in RAW? Lightroom 2 or 3 handles RAW images perfectly and is non-destructive to your files. I've been using Lightroom since the very first beta and haven't looked back because it speedup my workflow tremendously. Photo Mechanic and Lightroom is a GREAT combo... |
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Lisa Hall, Photographer
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Oklahoma City | OK | USA | Posted: 5:38 PM on 05.15.11 |
->> Mark-
I have always used Photo Mechanic then edited in either CS4 or Lightroom3. After buying a MacBook Pro, I had a chance to pick up Elements 9 very cheap. I need a program that enables the basic editing after shooting a football game or other sports.
No, I shoot JPEG and may have 1100-1400 images a game. Lightroom does batch editing, but you really can't do that during a night game when the light changes often.
Thanks for everyones responses and if there are more suggestions, please add them! |
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Jeroen de Jong, Photographer
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Waalwijk | _ | Netherlands | Posted: 4:34 AM on 05.16.11 |
->> We recently have Elements 9 for editing, we transfered to Windows 7 and bought Elements. It works. But that's it.
Compared to normals Photoshop (on my own laptop) Photoshop Elements costs me more time
For organizing Elements it's a crime. You have to import all the pictures before you can see them. Elements has to index them to make thumbnails. It doesn't do that job automaticly, so you have to import a folder by hand (yes, it takes the subfolders automaticly)
But if you know that we have over 3.000.000 images that need to be read to create thumbnails.......
I can not tell you anything about lightroom. Yet.
My colleagues are also talking about switching to LR instead of Elements.
I'm still a fan of the normal version of Photoshop in combination with Bridge. It saves me up one hour for each project. We do 150 projects a year, so you do the math.
Automation by actions is still way faster than confirming 4 times that you want to save a file, yes overwrite the previous version, yes keep quality 12 and close the file. It could be done with one button.
But I cannot convince the ICT-guy's. They think it's to expensive. I tell them that it would save us 150 hours a year so that the investment will pay for itself. They still say no. |
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Neil Turner, Photographer
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Bournemouth | UK | United Kingdom | Posted: 9:08 AM on 05.16.11 |
->> Elements 9 handles JPEGs OK but nowhere near as well as Photo Mechanic in terms of speed and editing. Colour correcting JPEGs is a tough job at the best of times and using Elements is a good low cost option if you don't have too many to do.
Photoshop Elements 9 for RAW processing is OK but it has several of CS4/CS5's key features such as lens correction and spotting missing. It also only allows you to save your corrected RAW files as DNG whereas the full version of Photoshop allows you export in just about any format. We have found that a combination of Photo Mechanic (editing, captioning and converting DNG to JPEG) is a good fit for Elements 9 if you are on a budget but it cannot replace Lightroom or Photoshop (or any other top line RAW application) in a heavy duty workflow. |
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Butch Miller, Photographer
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Lock Haven | PA | USA | Posted: 1:52 PM on 05.16.11 |
->> If I could only choose one of the options PSE9 or Lr3 ... I'd pick Lr3 ... hands down ... even though it won't do some of what Os can do ... what it CAN do is far to valuable to my workflow ...
And ... Lr is on sale right now on Amazon for $179 ... |
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