Photoshop or Lightroom for Landscape Photography?

If you're wondering if you need to learn Photoshop for landscape photography, you aren't alone. It's the golden question, and we all want to stay in Lightroom as long as possible. Lightroom is loaded with easy-to-use sliders, and everything is laid out in a way that makes sense.

On the other hand, Photoshop seems like a lot for new users. Photoshop has many uses, and the interface isn't quite as user-friendly. Unlike Lightroom, where you can work your way down through the sliders, you must know where to look and how to get Photoshop to work for you. So, can you make it all happen in Lightroom, or do you need to learn to use Photoshop?

Lightroom Classic has dramatically improved over the last couple of years, with its most substantial upgrade being its masking tools, which allow for local adjustments. That said, Lightroom Classic still doesn't have layer support, meaning you can't combine multiple images. For focus stacking and other common landscape photography concepts, you'll have to navigate to Photoshop to combine images. Additionally, the masking tools in Photoshop are far superior to Lightroom when you need to make extra-fine selections.

Lightroom undoubtedly offers the capability to do a lot, but for those with more advanced techniques, knowing how to quickly jump into Photoshop is still beneficial.

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[kingsillusion]

You can focus stack in light room but its automated. Doing it by hand in PS is better

[andrewmason]

It looks like you are in Uluṟu, except you are American, so it would seem unlikely.