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Since I use Lightroom, I'm shooting only in RAW format. The significantly greater dynamic range of RAW files can eg the bright sky does not know or fading allows dark shadow areas well lighten. It thrills me again and again what can get out with Lightroom from the RAW images. Since JPEG files have no chance in comparison. If you shoot in JPEG not need Lightroom. Adjustment Brush, Clone Stamp, selective color adjustment, image correction and more useful helpers superfluous for many tasks the very expensive Photoshop CS.

After I worked myself into the Picturedatabase Lightroom, I archive all my photos with Lightroom. As to meet the ten thousand a year, I will provide the images directly when importing with keywords (names, places, Motif, etc.) So I find people or places quickly and year across quickly and can put together quickly for printing or sending mail.
Since Light works nondestructively, so does not alter the original file, but editing in a separate file stores, which can be changed at any time, subsequent changes to the image section, or color saturation are possible without any risks. The processed images can then be in Lightroom "develop", ie convert about in JPEGs or TIFFs, which can be provided without problems other people or programs.
The workflow is logical and easy to learn. There are numerous free videos on the Internet that both explain the basics as well explain also great tricks for image optimization. (Adobe or Youtube)
The 70 for the upgrade or the 100 for a new acquisition in my view, money well spent that pays a nice added value in quality.