Whether you are a photography professional or an amateur to take snapshots you will know the need to have a good image editor installed on your computer. Adobe undoubtedly offers two of the best programs for this purpose: Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom, but what is the difference between the two?
In today's article we will present the main characteristics of each of the programs, how to get them and which one is the most suitable for each project. We hope it helps you.
What is Adobe Photoshop?
Adobe Photoshop is probably the best-known image and photo editor in the market. This has evolved a lot over the last few years, becoming the head tool of many graphic designers, architects and professionals in the publishing world.
Photoshop has all the necessary tools both for editing and for creating any type of digital art piece, making it perfect for any user who wants to dedicate himself or himself to this sector in a professional way.
Although Photoshop is an expensive program, you can try its free version for 7 days to see if it fits your needs. To do this you can visit its official website by clicking here or download the trial version.
If you wish, Photoshop also offers a free version although very basic and designed only to make quick touches to your images.
When should I use Photoshop?
If you want to dedicate yourself solely to the world of simple photo editing, it is advisable to use Photoshop when you do not have Lightroom at hand. If, on the other hand, you want to dedicate yourself to digital creation, illustration and advanced photo editing, always choose Photoshop. While Lightroom is perfect for basic photo editing, it is not a program designed to create digital art or make advanced changes to an image.
What is Adobe Lightroom?
Unlike Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom has been exclusively designed for photo editing in RAW format. In this way it is a very powerful program to manipulate any image that you have captured with your camera and turn it into a real work of art.
One of Lightroom's strengths is that, in addition to allowing you to edit images, the program is excellent for managing them. Lightroom offers the option to import, organize and manage all your images in order to have an overview of all your projects and at the same time improve your performance when treating them.
In addition to this, unlike Photoshop, Lightroom never overwrites any of your photographs so no matter how much you try or make mistakes when editing an image, you will always be able to recover it.
In a similar way to Photoshop, Lightroom offers a 7-day trial version for you to decide if the program meets your expectations. You can download it from the official Lightroom website.
When should I use Lightroom?
If you dedicate yourself exclusively to the world of photography, we recommend that you choose to use Lightroom. This program is specially designed to professionally treat any RAW photo you take with your digital camera and is also excellent for organizing a project in the blink of an eye.
Lightroom is ideal for improving the appearance of photos and performing basic tasks such as cutting them, improving their hue, correcting gradient errors, pigmentation, reducing noise, correcting the lens profile, exposure, etc.
This is perfect for both novice and professional photographers who are not going to use the vast majority of the options offered by Photoshop.
Lightroom or Photoshop?
There is no correct answer for this question, just choose the program that best suits the project you are doing. If you have a photography project with many snapshots that need an image treatment, opt for Lightroom and its extraordinary image management system.
If on the contrary you have a creative project in which you have to make great changes to a specific image, opt for Photoshop and its thousands of options, brushes and tools. For an optimal edition it is best to use both programs.
Since both Photoshop and Lightroom are excellent to be used simultaneously, Adobe has created a package designed for photographers where you can use them for € 12.09 per month, 20 GB of cloud storage and with the possibility to try them for free for 7 days.
We hope this article has helped you to choose between Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop.
