PSE vs. Lightroom -- Organization

Does anyone have a comparison of the organization & cataloging between Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Lightroom?
I'm only interested in knowing how the photo managment aspects of these to programs compare...
Thanks!
Mike

I am now migrating to Lightroom, and from my first experience after converting a big Organizer catalog, a whole book about all the differences would be needed... and I hope you'll get many answers to your questions.
Here is a dated opinion from an expert:
http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Converting_to_Lightroom
There has been significant progress in Lightroom and in PSE11 since that time.
What is very surprising is that while you can have similar features in both softwares, their user interface is very different, which is a real problem for migrating users like me  I have read enough about LR to know what it can do, but I'll need months to be at ease and able to find what I need.
To tell you the truth, I have found a myriad of options in LR not present in the Organizer. But nothing that I really need. LR has a lot of support from Adobe, and PSE, which had been relatively ignored in the last versions, is now getting a good support. The result is a significant difference in the users targets : professionals and amateurs.
To satisfy professionals, LR offers a lot of options including some I do not consider good management practice. To satisfy amateurs, PSE11 gets a more 'Picasa' look with pre-cooked categories like people and places.
A big difference is the hardware requirements : LR can no longer use Win XP and requires a lot of memory and processing power.
Another significant difference is the backup option : the Organizer saves not only catalogs, but all the media files. Better for amateurs.
LR is better in metadata management, exchange between catalogs, sort order when displaying, renaming files.
The organizer has various useful features like face recognition and visual similarity search. Its integration with the editor is better for many creation tasks.
And if you choose LR, you'll soon discover you also need PSE for a part of your jobs... so you can consider that even with the new affordable price of LR, the Organizer comes free!
Finally, that's not your question (management), but with the new ACR 7 version in the editor, PSE11 is a great tool for raw conversion and parametric editing, even for jpegs and tiffs.
So, I think advanced amateurs can be perfectly happy with PSE, whereas professionals will take advantage of the power and speed of editing to deal with big quantities of mixed raws and jpegs for various cameras.

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