Similarly, your ability to recover areas that are blown out or too dark is much better with a RAW photo. Your numbers next to your temperature slider now display Kelvin and give you much better control over White Balance. If you haven't edited a RAW file in LR before, you will notice some differences. While Photoshop can be utilized for many different reasons, LR is designed for photo editing and management, and it does a fantastic job! For the majority of my RAW photos, I do all of my editing in LR and only go into Photoshop for minor work.
For this reason, and many others, I always start by importing my files (RAW or jpg) into LR. This also protects hard drive space because you aren't writing a new file or adding layers when you edit in LR. You can come back to a photo 2 years from now and start all over in just one click (The Reset button). Any changes you make in LR are not written onto the original photo. The fantastic thing about LR is its ability to do non-destructive editing without having to worry about layers. Photoshop will provide you with some further tools you can use after the fact, but in many cases this won't be necessary.
To be clear, the camera raw engine is not better or different in one or the other. I generally only go into using ACR in Photoshop if I need to do something that is overly complex and requires me to be able to work on individual parts of a photo very precisely. As a general rule, I do the majority of my work on RAW files in Lightroom. Shooting in RAW is an assumption that you will do some work in post, so, should you use Lightroom, Photoshop, both? Hopefully this article will help you utilize the power of RAW and develop a workflow that will manage the photo editing process smoothly. Editing can be a lot of fun, but having a solid workflow can help that process stay fun, instead of becoming a burden. The power of shooting RAW is unleashed when you get to the digital darkroom, and for most of us, that means using Lightroom (LR) or Photoshop (PS). You've probably heard enough photographers talk about RAW that you realize it’s a pretty powerful tool in the digital photographer's tool bag.
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