Why would anyone use BOTH Elements and Lightroom?

Aren't they both the same thing in a different package?

irish1 wrote in post #3241455
Aren't they both the same thing in a different package?

Elements & LR ? totally different functions.

Yes, like a Ford F350 and a Lincoln Town Car, both Fords, both have wheels, engines, steering wheels and carry passengers.

A search on this forum might yield quite a bit of discussion on previous threads. Or go to Adobe's website for details.

Lightroom is a RAW converter, basic image editor, workflow management application, image database management ap, among other things.

Photoshop Elements is an image editor, with a plethora of image editing capabilities beyond what Lightroom has.

If Adobe still has the 30 day trial going on Lightroom, download it and give it a try. Be advised there is a considerable learning curve. Read the user guide that comes with it.

Because Elements RAW handling is severely hand-cuffed. I bought LR to get excellent RAW tools without a CS3 price tag.

Elements, on the other hand, does what LR cannot in terms of layers, plugins, sharpening, text, frames, selective edits, etc.

Organizer and LIbrary may seem similar because of keyword tagging, etc, but even there LR beats Elements in terms of functions (although LR needs to borrow a couple of Elements sorting features in this regard )

Overall Elements and LR combined is a pretty powerful combo, and (for me, at least) less than 1/2 the price of CS3.

What I've found is that doing all my work in LR, I have yet to convert a RAW image to anything else. To date, all my processing and printing is done in LR, so no files need to be converted from RAW.

I would use Elements to run some pluggins.
You cant do that in LR