Adobe Lightroom 5 vs Photoshop CC
By rlawton | Reviews, Software | 20/05/2013 10:57am
Who needs Photoshop, especially now that Photoshop CC has gone subscription-based? Find out with our Adobe Lightroom 5 vs Photoshop CC head to head.

Who needs Photoshop, especially now that Photoshop CC has gone subscription-based? Find out with our Adobe Lightroom 5 vs Photoshop CC head to head.

The new Adobe Photoshop subscription plan is causing a furore! Would you rather rent your software or buy it outright? We take a closer look at Adobe’s brave new world of subscription-based software, the possible implications for photographers and some of the alternatives.

Adobe’s Lightroom 5 beta brings some great-sounding tools, but how useful are they really? N-Photo’s Lightroom gurus give them a workout.

There are plenty of plug-ins that can smooth skin tones and disguise blemishes, but Portrait Professional 11 goes a whole lot further.

Adobe’s enthusiast-level photo editor has been upgraded, but are the changes just cosmetic? Find out in our Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 review.

Nik Software has announced version 2 of its HDR (high dynamic range) plug-in software for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture, and we give it a spin.

DxO Optics Pro 7.5.1 adds support for the Nikon D3200. Now you can convert your RAW files and fix lens flaws at the same time.

There are plenty of decent image-editing tools for the iPad that enable you to carry out basic adjustments and enhancements or apply special effects.
However, Photoshop Touch is altogether more ambitious. In Adobe’s own words, it provides the core features of Photoshop in an app designed for tablets. It’s already available in an Android version, but now you can get a version for the iPad, too.
At £6.99, it’s a fraction of the price of the ‘real’ Photoshop. But then it also has to make do with a fraction of the computing power of a desktop computer, a fraction of the storage space and a much smaller screen. Can it really match the desktop version in features and performance?

Check out Practical Photoshop magazine’s excellent review of Photoshop Elements 10, the newest version of the photo editing software. The latest addition to the Photoshop software collection allows you to create phonebooks and cards from your photos and showcase the best of your work on websites, Facebook and Youtube in an easy and user-friendly way.