CS5 question (compare to LR)

I use Lightroom 3 and Elements 9. I would like to upgrade to CS5 mainly for HDR.
However, I was wondering if CS5 had the same ability as LR to load multiple pics, fix one of them, and sinc that setting to other similar pics (like WB if you took them all under the same conditions)?

Is there a better option than CS5 for HDR?

guntoter wrote in post #11885177
Is there a better option than CS5 for HDR?

IMO, yes - Photomatix.

CS5 has batch processing via actions.. Why not use Lightroom and CS5? I do this myself. I shoot in RAW, import everything into Lightroom, adjust white balance, color settings, sharpness, lens corrections, crop / rotate if needed, then export to Photoshop for any serious left-over work that needs to be done.

That being said, there's plenty of options for HDR besides CS5, so if that's your only reason for upgrading definitely look into them first.

A great free one right now is Olneo Photo Engine, since it's in beta.

http://www.oloneo.com/​en/page/photoengine.ht​ml

BrandonSi wrote in post #11885338
CS5 has batch processing via actions.. Why not use Lightroom and CS5? I do this myself. I shoot in RAW, import everything into Lightroom, adjust white balance, color settings, sharpness, lens corrections, crop / rotate if needed, then export to Photoshop for any serious left-over work that needs to be done.

That being said, there's plenty of options for HDR besides CS5, so if that's your only reason for upgrading definitely look into them first.

A great free one right now is Olneo Photo Engine, since it's in beta.

http://www.oloneo.com/​en/page/photoengine.ht​ml

Yes, I would definitely not do away with my LR. Love that program. Your advice on how to use both sounds good.

I will check out the free HDR program.

Thank you.

CS5 has two options for doing work blending multiple images -- HDR and layer Blending. Both can work well for different things. And, you can in fact use Camera Raw to process images with the same tools as Lightroom has and Sync them. Then Photoshop, through Bridge, can send those images right on through into the Photoshop HDR/Blending operations.

But, you also have HDR plug-ins for Lightroom, the two popular ones being Photomatix and Enfuse. So, if all you wanted from Photoshop is HDR, well, you may want to consider one of those plug-ins and keep using Elements for "normal" Photoshop work.

tonylong wrote in post #11886667
CS5 has two options for doing work blending multiple images -- HDR and layer Blending. Both can work well for different things. And, you can in fact use Camera Raw to process images with the same tools as Lightroom has and Sync them. Then Photoshop, through Bridge, can send those images right on through into the Photoshop HDR/Blending operations.

But, you also have HDR plug-ins for Lightroom, the two popular ones being Photomatix and Enfuse. So, if all you wanted from Photoshop is HDR, well, you may want to consider one of those plug-ins and keep using Elements for "normal" Photoshop work.

I have the enfuse plug-in. It does make pics look nice, but is not true HDR.

Nik software also makes an HDR product (HDR Efex) that works with Lightroom or Photoshop. Plus they offer it in a bundle with some of their other popular software like Silver Efex.

guntoter wrote in post #11885177
I was wondering if CS5 had the same ability as LR to load multiple pics, fix one of them, and sinc that setting to other similar pics (like WB if you took them all under the same conditions)?

Yes. ACR 6.x comes with PSCS5 and uses the same engine as LR3.
Identical processing options except for a few details.