Yes, Lightroom is non-destructive, but Bridge and Camera Raw are non-destructive too. Folders can be simple, like a date, but when imported into Lightroom can be put into a collection called "Sam's 30th Birthday". You must import your files from folders into a Catalogue, into a hierarchy that can be completely independent of how the files were originally on disk. Lightroom, on the other hand, works off a database. You organise your images how you like them on disk, Bridge will let you rate them, add tags and so forth. The biggest difference for me is that Bridge and Photoshop work off folders.
I do have Photoshop CS3, but I can't say I'm particularly well-versed in its use! Switch to Photoshop for pixel-level precision, intelligent content-aware editing, and advanced tools for masking, layer blending, realistic painting, compositing, selecting intricate image content, and more.įor my use, Lightroom is plenty enough and I don't find myself particularly limited, but then I don't want to do HDR or panoramas at present. Lightroom offers a broad range of state-of-the-art tools for developing individual images and for efficiently adjusting many images at once. To quote Adobe's "Complete Photography Solution" page Photoshop can still be used to carry out the heavier image manipulations (removing items, HDR, Stitch Panoramas, amongst others see the "Develop and Perfect" tab here). Only when you want to export your images are your changes used when a JPEG/PNG/TIFF/Whatever image file is produced from the RAW file. Your entire workflow works on the RAW files, with the changes you want to make to your images being stored as you go. It's also very important to note that Lightroom manipulations are non-destructive. I know you can do this sort of thing in Photoshop, but Lightroom is designed to make this as easy as possible, and to guide you through your workflow. That is to say it manages the importing, keyword/meta-ing, basic (non-destructive) manipulation and exporting of images.
Lightroom is an image-management application, that can also perform non-destructive edits to your photos.
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