What is the different between lightroom and photoshop?

i;m looking for a new editing program and i was wondering what the difference was and which one is betterWhat is the different between lightroom and photoshop?
Imagine Lightroom being a extension of your - exposure - AFTER the frame has been shot, especially if shot in RAW.. You have powerful controls in the exposure, color, tint, shadows and other adjustments if needed, and in very narrow bands too.





Photo Shop is also good for some post exposure adjustments, no where as good as Lightroom tho, but Photo Shop also lets you move things around, take things out of a pic, put things back in a pic. Adjust for red eye. Dust. Wrinkles. Make a pic BW with 1 part a color. And on and on. Even add text and shaps like a Desk Top Publishing prg if needed.





Both are a good compliment to each other and hard to imagine working with images now with out having both. However, I use Paint Shop Pro X2 for the image editing part and Lightroom for my final color editing.





Lightroom also lets you convert RAW files to other types of image files as well and this is a plus for me because I shoot with Fuji D-SLR's and Fuji RAW is in a league of it's own and Lightroom allows me the ability to change it to a un-compressed TIFF for further manipulation with-in PSPX2..





A tad expensive, but worth it..





Bob - TucsonWhat is the different between lightroom and photoshop?
Although Lightroom is considered to be a RAW converter, it's actually intended to manage thousands of digital images and doing post production work.





Most of the RAW processing (developing module) function is duplicated in Adobe Capture RAW, included in Photoshop, but the interface is considered to be a bit better.





The management features allow you to do things like create stacks of similar, related images, to make finding different versions easier. So you can have a B%26amp;W or a colorized version of a photo virtually at your finger tips when you look at the original.





Anticipating your next question, RAW files are the files that many higher end cameras can take. They get their name from being the RAW sensor data, unmanipulated by the microprocessor and firmware in your camera. Instead of using the camera's microprocessor and firmware, you use your computer's microprocessor and software (such as Lightroom or Adobe Camera RAW) to generate the JPG or print you'll view.