>>300178It's not about power, moron. You're talking about two separate products designed for two specific things.
Photoshop is an editor. Lightroom is not.
Lightroom is what id term photo management software, which handles storage, backup, imports, sorting, and exporting to media. Like I said earlier, it handles batch processes very well.
If I wanted to color correct 1000 photos in photoshop, id make an action and then create an .exe. I'd then drop all the photos on that .exe and photoshop would proceed to work on all of those photos, and probably take an hour to do it. 99% of the time would be just opening, closing, and saving the file in question. If you think im bullshitting try it for yourself. If I wanted to do the same via lightroom, id hit CTRL-A, and flick a slider. It'd be done in a minute.
Lightroom can do this because photoshop commits all changes to the file itself. Its also destructive editing. Lightroom writes the changes to a .xmp sidecar file, which only alters the photo's appearance and properties in the application itself, or when it exports the specific photos you want to use.
LR and Photoshop are not competing products. The fact that you think so means YOU probably shouldn't be questioning MY knowledge. Just look at adobe's current marketing plan - you get 30% off lightroom if you buy it with photoshop. Its meant to be used in conjunction with photoshop, not against it.