I'm relatively new to the PP world and am more than a little confused by all of the separate utilities, applications, and suggested workflow tools.
For years I've used a small utility called CompuPic Pro (from PhotoDex) to touch up my P&S images and view them. Now that I've moved to the DSLR world and the power of RAW, it seems like I've been bombarded with things to learn.
I'm most confused about workflow issues and proper use of tools. I have DXO because their body-and-lense-specific tools seemed to make sense to me. I have Noise Ninja for obvious reasons. Free Canon utilities are also on my system, naturally.
Now I'm looking at Lightroom and am thinking that would be a fine primary tool for touching up images - but where does that product fit into the more professional tools like Photoshop?
A couple of simple questions:
1. Why would someone who owns Photoshop CS2 or Elements purchase Lightroom? Aren't Lightroom's features a subset of what's available in the more robust Photoshop family of products?
2. From a workflow perspective, would a reasonable arsonal of tools for general image clean-up and enhancement be:
Step 1. Noise Ninja (if required by the image)
Step 2. DXO
Step 3. Lightroom
3. If my suggested toolkit makes sense, why would I want to add Elements or CS2 to the mix?
4. Can someone recommend a good high-level tutorial on PP tools so I can stop asking annoying questions on POTN? 
Brad
