If you have bridge, you don't need to buy Lightroom unless you do a lot of printing. Lightroom is the most versatile program for printing.
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My friend is not a fan of Lightroom he suggests doing more in photoshop because you have better control.
Didn’t know it could do that…oops. I don’t use it so have never really dug into the details but I thought I remembered seeing the lack of those features in an article somewhere.07. Filtering Images And Creating Collections
Bridge can filter images to show us just the photos that meet certain criteria. We can view only images with a five star rating. Or only the images shot with a certain lens, or at a certain focal length. Bridge can combine photos into collections that make it easy for us to group related images together. Collections can even group images that are scattered across different folders or even different hard drives. And smart collections in Bridge act like dynamic search results. Smart collections tell Bridge to automatically add any images to the collection if and when they meet the criteria we specify.
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The above site explains the search functions across different hard drives. I have been adding keywords, collections, etc... in Bridge for a long time. Searches work great! I am not saying Bridge is better than LRC by any means. Just stating what it does. I will drop out now.![]()
I’ve been using Bridge in conjunction with Photoshop for years, primarily as a browser for jpg’s previously processed from RAW. I use Capture One primarily for my RAW processing (although occasionally use Lightroom Classic), and export directly to Photoshop to complete the processing. Bridge is also useful in assigning metadata to the processed jpg’s. I review many of the jpg’s on an iPad and not infrequently decide one needs some additional processing. I find the image on Bridge and open in Photoshop to make the changes. BTW, the reason I avoid Lr is that you cannot use the scroll wheel of the mouse to zoom in/out, and smoothly change control settings. Both Photoshop and Capture One have this feature which significantly improves the usability and efficiency of the interface. In this regard Lightroom’s control interface is primitive, inefficient and not very usable.
It is but by the time I get to LRC I have already culled my images with Photo Mechanic which is far faster when you are wading through a days birding with Z9 in RAW at 20FPSActually..... in lightroom classic in the library the scroll wheel runs through the library up or down, but ctrl-scroll wheel increases or decreases the zoom of the thumbnail. In develop scroll wheel moves the image up or down but ctrl- scroll wheel increases or decreases the zoom. A left click or tap of spacebar toggles between the two zoom levels previously set. Combined it is a very fast way to get through a lot of images.
I use bridge but I feel its more important to first arrange your files.A very accomplished photographer friend of mine suggested I use Adobe Bridge to organize my images and workflow.
Do any of you use Bridge? Also where do I go to get training so I know how to use it.
It is but by the time I get to LRC I have already culled my images with Photo Mechanic which is far faster when you are wading through a days birding with Z9 in RAW at 20FPS![]()