Canon DPP software --->> Lightroom?

Ok....I am seriously thinking of moving up to software that will allow me to do better post processing, level adjustments, etc. on my images.

I currently just use Canon's Digital Photo Pro software to adjust RAW and I know I'll need to buy the full version of LR, but can anyone say they've moved over to LR specifically from DPP and tell me how they feel now about the change, for the better or worse? After reading reviews about it and POTN threads, I'd venture to say it'll be for the better.

You could also go the DPP > PSE route...

https://photography-on-the.net …53546&highlight​=LR+vs+DPP
https://photography-on-the.net …41408&highlight​=LR+vs+DPP
https://photography-on-the.net …66277&highlight​=LR+vs+DPP
https://photography-on-the.net …58928&highlight​=LR+vs+DPP


I use both, and both have their strong and weak points.

I'm so engrained in the use of PaintShop Pro (have been since around 1990..way before Corel bought it), and it has done all the graphic stuff, layering, masking, etc. I ever needed...I've never done anything in PhotoShop except open it up and look at the interface. So having said that I may stay with PSP as part of my workflow...just no time to re-learn something else. Thanks for the info!

DD974 wrote in post #10660603
I'm so engrained in the use of PaintShop Pro (have been since around 1990..way before Corel bought it), and it has done all the graphic stuff, layering, masking, etc. I ever needed...I've never done anything in PhotoShop except open it up and look at the interface. So having said that I may stay with PSP as part of my workflow...just no time to re-learn something else. Thanks for the info!

DPP is great for "quick conversions" -- you can get things to snap in place pretty easily just using the Raw panel alone, and you have some tools to work with that are color-specific in the RGB panel.

Lightroom has more in-depth tools that give you more control and more tools that let you do tasks that would be difficult to do in DPP. Of course Lightroom also is a "workflow management" app that includes photo organization tools and a variety of output capabilities that go beyond what DPP has and all this is in an integrated package/interface that makes things usable and cuts down on the need for external apps.

Either way, you will still want an external editor on hand, and if you are happy with PSP then that will work fine -- you can send files directly to PSP from LR in a couple different ways.

The best advice is to download the 30 day free trial of LR and take the time to learn its full features. Take some tutorials, read up on it, and read the Help guide thoroughly -- there are thing in the Help guide that it may take a long time to "get" just through random Web reading.

You may find in the end that you prefer the quick/simple approach of DPP and don't need the organizational tools and advanced processing tools of LR, but you'll never know until you try it for yourself.