Comments on: Your Guide to Adobe Bridge: Inroductions http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/ A Photography Resource for the Aspiring Hobbyist Sat, 17 May 2008 19:33:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Brian Auer http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-74159 Brian Auer Tue, 13 May 2008 15:56:36 +0000 http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-74159 Sam, good questions. It's partly a preference thing -- some people have just "grown up" using Bridge. The other part of it is some of the advanced functionality built into Bridge. Bulk RAW processing, copy & paste RAW settings, full control and visibility over the file metadata (which is VERY important), and many functions that rely on that metadata. One of the big appeals for me is that Bridge doesn't rely on a database to keep track of your photos -- it's only a file browser similar to the one on your operating system, only better. If they stop making Bridge five years from now, my photo archive is still in the same shape that it always was because I've embedded all the important information right into the photos. But when it comes down to it, you've got to use something that you're comfortable with -- otherwise you won't use it at all. Sam, good questions. It’s partly a preference thing — some people have just “grown up” using Bridge.

The other part of it is some of the advanced functionality built into Bridge. Bulk RAW processing, copy & paste RAW settings, full control and visibility over the file metadata (which is VERY important), and many functions that rely on that metadata.

One of the big appeals for me is that Bridge doesn’t rely on a database to keep track of your photos — it’s only a file browser similar to the one on your operating system, only better. If they stop making Bridge five years from now, my photo archive is still in the same shape that it always was because I’ve embedded all the important information right into the photos.

But when it comes down to it, you’ve got to use something that you’re comfortable with — otherwise you won’t use it at all.

]]> By: Sam http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-74153 Sam Tue, 13 May 2008 15:33:38 +0000 http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-74153 OK, so I'm the newbie here, but I take a zillion photographs. In the past few years, I have taken about 80.000 photos. These are over 180GB, so I had to split these into two sets because of the large sizes (family and pseud-professional), but I have found Adobe Photo Album 2 (I upgraded to 3 to try it out, but prefered to stick with v2) to be a fantastic way of organizing all of my photos. I have played around with bridge, but I really just don't get the appeal. I realize it is a product for "pro photographers", but it seems like it is much easier to organize photos in Album, and opening one or a group of photos within Photoshop for advanced editing is easy. So what am I missing here? Why don't more advanced photographers use Album for image organization? For instance, tagging large sets of photos 5 different ways in Album is easy -- but it seems like the only way to do that in bridge is to edit meta-data? The only limitation I found with Album is that after I got to over 60,000 photos in the system it started acting funny, so I reduced it to 30-40K photos per album, and it works just fine... OK, so I’m the newbie here, but I take a zillion photographs. In the past few years, I have taken about 80.000 photos. These are over 180GB, so I had to split these into two sets because of the large sizes (family and pseud-professional), but I have found Adobe Photo Album 2 (I upgraded to 3 to try it out, but prefered to stick with v2) to be a fantastic way of organizing all of my photos.

I have played around with bridge, but I really just don’t get the appeal. I realize it is a product for “pro photographers”, but it seems like it is much easier to organize photos in Album, and opening one or a group of photos within Photoshop for advanced editing is easy. So what am I missing here? Why don’t more advanced photographers use Album for image organization? For instance, tagging large sets of photos 5 different ways in Album is easy — but it seems like the only way to do that in bridge is to edit meta-data?

The only limitation I found with Album is that after I got to over 60,000 photos in the system it started acting funny, so I reduced it to 30-40K photos per album, and it works just fine…

]]> By: walera http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-53665 walera Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:09:59 +0000 http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-53665 To Gowri: Do you use Windows Vista? To Gowri: Do you use Windows Vista?

]]> By: Saturday Links Fever [2008-03-22] at All Day I Dream About Photography http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-48423 Saturday Links Fever [2008-03-22] at All Day I Dream About Photography Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:27:46 +0000 http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-48423 [...] Your Guide to Adobe Bridge: Inroductions Your Guide to Adobe Bridge: Workspace A series written by Brian guiding us over Adobe Bridge, its [...] [...] Your Guide to Adobe Bridge: Inroductions Your Guide to Adobe Bridge: Workspace A series written by Brian guiding us over Adobe Bridge, its [...]

]]> By: Your Guide to Adobe Bridge: Workspace http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-48185 Your Guide to Adobe Bridge: Workspace Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:17:51 +0000 http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-48185 [...] the last post of this series we talked about the basics of Adobe Bridge. What it is, what it can do, why it’s a good thing, and some of the computer requirements. [...] [...] the last post of this series we talked about the basics of Adobe Bridge. What it is, what it can do, why it’s a good thing, and some of the computer requirements. [...]

]]> By: Claudius Coenen http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-48119 Claudius Coenen Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:01:39 +0000 http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-48119 As described on my blog (german) you can download the Photshop CS3-Trial and you get the Bridge 2. The nice thing about that is: The Bridge's trial will not expire! Basically that means: Free Bridge for everyone! As described on my blog (german) you can download the Photshop CS3-Trial and you get the Bridge 2. The nice thing about that is: The Bridge’s trial will not expire!

Basically that means: Free Bridge for everyone!

]]> By: Damien Franco http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-47945 Damien Franco Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:50:55 +0000 http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-47945 Oh no Brian, your a windows user? Maybe one day... Oh no Brian, your a windows user?

Maybe one day…

]]> By: Gowri http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-47841 Gowri Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:33:37 +0000 http://blog.epicedits.com/2008/03/17/your-guide-to-adobe-bridge-inroductions/#comment-47841 Hi Brian, Thanks so much for the post. I have Adobe Bridge on my system but I have never bothered to check what it offered. Moreover my computer was very very slow and needed some upgrading. Coincidentally I got a new RAM yesterday and now I can manage to work on Bridge without the frustrating waiting spans. :-) Looks like I'm going to enjoy (and learn from) this series very much! Cheers, Gowri Hi Brian,

Thanks so much for the post. I have Adobe Bridge on my system but I have never bothered to check what it offered. Moreover my computer was very very slow and needed some upgrading. Coincidentally I got a new RAM yesterday and now I can manage to work on Bridge without the frustrating waiting spans. :-)

Looks like I’m going to enjoy (and learn from) this series very much!

Cheers,

Gowri

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