Any point in adding Lightroom?

[Cage]

I'm like you Tannin. I got it with CS6 Cloud.

I'm sneaking up on it, it has some useful 'quick fix' tools, but I haven't really got my head around it.

Bottom line, I feel it will be a very useful adjunct to CS6.

[Hamster]

Anyone who wants to use their own cataloguing system should stay clear of LR IMHO. Don't think of LR as an editing/PP tool, think of it as a cataloguing tool that includes an editor.
Use your own catalogue plus PS (or elements for example if you never need layers) or use LR plus whatever plug in/add on/PS. You have to take the plunge and use LR from the starting point of down loading your images from a card. Then it becomes easy. I insert the card, it puts the files in a dated folder in the route directory of my pictures until I shift them elsewhere after editing. I do all my shifting, editing, naming, editing in other programs, through LR so it always knows where stuff is. Should I ever want to do something in a program without going via LR that's fine, my images are kept in a file structure that works for my brain. I find the image, play, and the next time I'm in LR I tell it to sync the folder with the image I played with, hey presto, up it pops. I could even dump another bunch of images into a folder and then tell LR to sync. But I rarely do this, the doorway to my photos is via LR as it is my CATALOGUE first and my editor second. An important mental distinction. I just happen to do 80% of my PP on it.