What's the difference between Adobe Lightroom 4 and Adobe Elements 10?

Answer What's the Difference Between Adobe Photoshop vs. Lightroom vs. Elements? http://prodesigntools.com/difference-between-photoshop-vs-extended-vs-elements-vs-lightroom.html If you want you can download a free trial of either or all programs direct from Adobe and try them out for yourself

Lightroom is designed for automatic post processing, sharpening, saturation, exposure, converting from Raw etc. of images, it is mainly used by photographers that do Event Photography, weddings, gymkhanas etc. and need printed images on the day. It can even recognise and apply different settings on images from individual camera/lens combinations, the idea is that all the images will look the same no matter which photographer took the images (events often use multiple photographers) you can supply unified prints. Everything in Lightroom is available in Photoshop, but the GUI (Graphical User Interface) is not as quick to use. But Lightroom does not have everything that PS has, it has no Layers for instance, something that is pretty basic for non destructive editing. Nor does it have all the selection tools so different parts of the image can be processed differently. It doesn't have Adjustment Layers or Layer Masks. There are lots of tools in PS that Lightroom doesn't have. Even Elements has more tools than Lightroom. Chris