Is Adobe Lightroom enough?

gjl711 wrote in post #12034253
Two different tools in my book. Lightroom is not a photo editor. It's a photo catalog and adjustment tool. Photoshop is an editor. It's terrible at cataloging, can do photo adjustment, but shines when photo manipulation is needed. I need both in my tool box.

I agree that they're very different tools, but whether or not Lightroom is an "editor" is simply semantics. I personally own both but generally use Lightroom almost exclusively. Once I get past the basic contrast, exposure, saturation tweaks and get into doing things like massive cloning and liquefying it stops being a photograph and starts being an image (if that makes sense).

So: is Lightroom enough? It depends on what type of work you want to do.

LR is a workflow program not a full blown editting package. OK for the basics but for more complex stuff you need PS...

LR is my automated program to process wedding photos or a large number of images.
I set it up and let it do all the work.
For anything selective, I use CS5. You can't use layer masks, change colors, composite pictures or anything else that requires major image changes without Photoshop.
While LR and PS overlap to some degree, photoshop is the editing powerhouse.