That is interesting. When I took some courses they told us PS is for the designer and LR is for the photographer. Not to say photographers can't use PS but I interpreted that as "working photographer" that does lot of editing and time is an issue.
Who ever told you that is a recent PS user and not correct!
"That is interesting. When I took some courses they told us PS is for the designer and LR is for the photographer."
I already had PS and had taken courses over 8 years ago. This was a LR intro about 4 years ago. I had tried the month trial a few times but still was not sold. I finally got it about year later. I guess they were just giving a general overview.
I think your statement here is a little misleading. If Lr is a subset of Photoshop, then PS can do everything that Lr can? PSE can be viewed as a subset of PS... not Lr.
There's a LR export plug-in that can do that, with no action recording or scripting required.
That's exactly what Lightroom export does. And in bulk, it's so much faster than Photoshop running each individual image through the actions and scripts. Of course, there are a few things you can do with PS actions/scripts you can't do with LR, but that's always been the case. The reason for LR is that for most of the tasks most need to do, it's more streamlined in LR. For the edge cases that a few power users need to do, sure, it's worth doing the more complicated setup and slower bulk processing from PS/Bridge. That's why they give us the choice to use either.
If you're a designer then you would use photoshop for 75%. You don't have layers in Lightroom. As a matter a fact you'd probably would be using the creative suite instead of Lightroom. Both LR and photoshop are in the suite, so you'd have all the tools for editing and converting photo's and design tools.
If you only use 2 of the creative suite apps then why use it? You'd be better of with the photographers plan for ten bucks a month.
Photoshop is more a designer tool nowadays with it's web and filter/layer features.
That's why LR was developed. For the pro's who need to select and edit lots of photographs for the newspaper or other companies so they have the images in a timely manner. Photoshop is not build for that. Photoshop has been developed for in depth editing and design.
Oh boy, why speculate? He did NOT say he ONLY uses those two apps. Nowhere. He doesn't have to say, and you don't have to read other names within the CC suite but you can speculate and assume he doesn't use anything else; kind of pointless to do so.
He only names LR and Photoshop specifically. I don't read anywhere in this thread he's using any other apps from the suite. So no speculation, that's your part.
Affinity will draw people away from Adobe once it's availble for Windows quarter 3 this year. 50 dollars for a Photo Editor, vector tool and probably also an indesign competitor. All just for 50 bucks a piece, no rental, developers wo actually listen to the designers/users wich features they want. Bye bye Adobe.
