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A very important control, levels, as not available in Lr the same form as it is in Ps. In fact I haven't been able to make the histogram adjustments in Lr, work in any useful way to set the black and white points as we can in Ps. I now do most of my image adjustments in Lr but have to export the image to Ps to set the black and white points and apply a stroke border and the copyright text. When I am tired or think 'it's near enough' I don't bother. On some images I am unable to get the black and white points right in Lr, so I have to resort to Ps to make the image better (right).
On the whole I find I am getting 'cleaner' brighter more pleasing images processing in Lightroom but that is probably due to my poor technique in Photoshop. It's just so much easier in Lr, especially for stacks like star trails and time lapse batches.
It does make a lot of difference to an image when the black and white points are right. In this case I'm not sure it's the software fault, I am pretty sure it's me trying, as Eric said to get feather detail on the entire swan area of the image which resulted in a dirty swan.
Right now I have a little digger waiting for me so I must get outside and use it before the owner decides I have had it long enough! It sure beats a pick and shovel!
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Robert.