Adobe bridge cs6 review

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It will give you full support with the current W3C Web advantage. There is also other software in Adobe CS6. Then again, I just had to replace the logic board so maybe that has something to do with it. But in general, other than the known problems like the sluggish performance when needing a lot of thumbnails, it's worked fine enough for me. Never used it on a PC though so maybe that's an issue. Having thoroughly tested and used LR and Capture 1 in an attempt to integrate an all-in-one into our workflow, I can honestly say that LR is the worst of the three for us.

It's a single-user solution that does not play nice with networks. It's an all-in-one and is extremely inflexible - you use LR and nothing else. If you're happy with how Bridge does things, you probably don't need Lightroom. But I find Bridge to be clumsy and awkward in many areas where Lightroom is integrated and speedy.

Keywording is slow in Bridge, in Lightroom there are lots of fast shortcuts. Can't print from Bridge, in Lightroom it is built in. No geotagging in Bridge, in Lightroom it is built in. Because it cannot display tiff files properly. Problem is Because it's integrated into other Adobe products. I've been using Bridge and Adobe actually integrated one of my ideas into Bridge when I was a beta tester years ago.

I'm not happy with CC, but this is the only tool that I can use for what I do. One thing Adobe does better than anyone else is support for Applescript. Even better than Apple in some of their applications. On the PC? I suspect other than Applescript it's nearly identical. For what it's worth ACDSee used to be my no. It was fast, efficient and did what it did very well. And it was downhill from there I'm afraid. Now to answer your question twice I'd say that the reason most Adobe product users will use Bridge is because it's included with the software AND offers a host of intergration features.

And that's a done deal in my books :. I really like Bridge on my desktop-pc, now it works even quicker and I never really liked lightroom too much, but even now in the new version still no high resolution support in bridge???

Is this sooooo difficult.. It's not performance, it's cleaning old stuff lol! And cleaning when not using, so a new process running everytime just for that. With Adobe CC you have tons of running process in background even when not using anything, pure Rube Goldberg machine Still no histogram in Preview or anywhere? Maybe I am missing a setup item in preferences. Otherwise, this is bitterly disappointing.

That main feature is so critical that CS6 reigns supreme on my machine, and will, even if i have to depend on the trashy dng converter. Without smart option, Lightroom is only viable for me to download new camera raw, and then use Bridge to process to CS6.

Smart option allows me to downsize my files when working, then I can expand later for print. Lightroom is great for jpeg wedding and event photogs who don't care about preservation of digital files.

Good luck with that. I don't mean to insult , just frustrated. My apologies. They should really integrate the output module again. Not have it like an add on that many people had problems with getting working properly. Still no preview for SVG files.

Still poor preview for animated GIFs. But a huge performance boost for thumbnail generation. Interesting; why the focus on SVG? Are those useful in photography?

Or do use Bridge to catalog graphics for ID and Illustrator? Or what? Could it be that Lightroom is intended to evolve more towards the mass public and Bridge becoming a more full-featured DAM for advanced users? Not even close. It's a browser of files. It does not act as a database in any sense of the term.

But that is its strength. I work in an environment, where the one-man-show nature of Lightroom is worse than useless. Why work around that "feature" when you can have all the benefits of Adobe Camera RAW without all the bells and whistles that get in the way of collaborative work?

Unless you like synchronizing your folders several times a day! So how do you guys stay organized and find your files if you're not in Lightroom? Do you use the old-school system of folders and filenames? Proper filenaming is hardly old school. Any serious institution follows guidelines for filenaming, even with a DAMS providing keywording search. Keywording and labeling does not replace good filenaming and organization - they are search tools. See here:. Bridge has a robust keywording and labeling system that works just as well as LR and will search across multiple servers.

I'm finding that the 6. The Collections and Smart Collections are also full featured and can bring together groups of images quickly. It gets no love, but I'm happy they're supporting it again.

SmilerGrogan wrote: "So how do you guys stay organized and find your files if you're not in Lightroom? If you are "doing it right" in Lightroom, you are embedding metadata in files so that they can be found outside of Lightroom. Which happens to include the Mac Finder. You can delete Lightroom from my system, and I will still be able to use the Mac Finder to locate Lightroom-tagged images by keyword. Funny, I haven't got the option to upgrade to 6.

Maybe Adobe are waiting until the import function is fixed. The link above installed an older version of Bridge than my latest update. After installing that old version, I got an option to update to 6. Same here. It also forces a Creative Cloud setup? Quite a long wait while does "compacting cache" on exit. It is quite funny seeing Adobe blaming Microsoft about poor high dpi support while many other image editing software like Corel Photo Paint CorelDraw as well , CaptureOne Pro scale up beautifully.

DavidH - I'm in the same situation as you are; however, I was able to download the latest Bridge DavidH - only time will tell. If anything goes wrong, I can always reinstall the CD version of Bridge I like the new features so far. I actually can't wait to try this out. Bridge has been my tool of choice for years, and I have years of photos tagged with Meta words.

I would hate to have to look for a replacement now LightRoom just isn't an option for me. I do fear that one day they will just discontinue Bridge or change it to work just like LightRoom. Aa Mariooo!? Quando mai sulla Terra, quella di Adobe si scrive in questo modo? Ma quando mai?! The best use of Bridge for me is to compare say 10 images or more side by side.

This is great when I am testing lenses at various apertures or against one another. No I think you are right, no zoom in survey mode. They want you to use the compare tool, look at them two at a time and select the best from 2. If you have the screen realestate I can see how having 10 up and zoomed in would be helpful, especially looking at "bursts" thanks! Is there any reason to run Bridge if you already run Lightroom?

I know why you might use Bridge with Photoshop, but what if you are just Lightroom? The main reason to use Bridge over Lightroom's file management is that you work with more file types than Lightroom supports. I personally prefer Bridge as I prefer working in the actual folders of images rather than with libraries of them, I also personally prefer the interface to the pretty but many-tabbedness of Lightroom. It is clunkier than Lightroom, but I like it.

There's more to bridge than most give it credit for - it's a slim program that does a lot of the DAMS things that Lightroom does and connects seamlessly to camera raw for edits.

And there's no bulk like the presets and so on though you can create them as needed. The file renaming capability alone is worth it! Thanks for the replies. I am kinda frustrated with how slow LR has gotten.

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To select an image in the Content panel, click once on its thumbnail. A preview of the image will appear in the Preview panel in the upper right of the Bridge interface:. If you find that the preview is too small, as mine is, you can easily resize the Preview panel to make it larger. In fact, we can resize any of the panels in Bridge in exactly the same way. Simply hover your mouse cursor over the vertical divider line on the left or right of a panel. Or, over the horizontal divider line above or below a panel.

Your cursor will change into a resize icon with two arrows pointing in opposite directions. Click and drag the divider line to resize the panel as needed. You'll notice that as you resize the Preview panel, the image inside the panel resizes along with it:. Increasing the size of one panel in Bridge decreases the size of other panels since there's only so much room on the screen.

In this case, by making the Preview panel larger, I've made my Content panel smaller. That's okay, though, because personally, I'd rather use the space for larger previews. You can customize the interface any way you like:.

With a thumbnail selected in the Content panel, go up to the View menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen and choose Full Screen Preview. Or just press the spacebar on your keyboard:. This instantly jumps your image to a full screen view, with the entire image fitting on the screen. If the aspect ratio of your image isn't the same as the aspect ratio of your screen, you'll see gray bars either on the sides or along the top and bottom:. This makes it easier to judge the sharpness and focus of the image.

To zoom back out, click once again on the image. To exit Full Screen Preview mode completely, press the spacebar again on your keyboard:. The Full Screen Preview mode is great for viewing single images.

But what if you need to quickly browse through an entire folder of images? That's where the Review Mode in Bridge really shines. Just go up to the View menu at the top of the screen and choose Review Mode. Review Mode displays your images as a rotating carousel.

You can rotate from one image to the next using the left and right arrows in the bottom left corner of the screen.

You can also press the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard. When you come to an image you don't want to keep, press the down arrow in the bottom left of the screen or the down arrow key on your keyboard. This will drop the image from the selection and move on to the next image. When you're done reviewing your images, click the " X " in the bottom right corner or the Esc key on your keyboard.

This will close Review Mode. Back in the Content panel, only the images you didn't drop during the review process will be selected:. While in Review Mode, we can click on an image to bring up the Loupe Tool. The Loupe Tool in Adobe Bridge acts like a magnifying glass. This makes it easy to check the sharpness and focus of an image. Click and drag the Loupe Tool around to inspect different areas. To close the Loupe Tool, click anywhere inside of it:. To make it easy to separate good images from bad, Bridge lets us apply ratings to our images.

It uses a popular one-to-five-star rating system. To show how ratings work, I've selected three images in my Content panel. The images I chose are the second, third and fourth in the top row. Or, if all the images you want to select are in a continuous row, there's an easier way. Click on the thumbnail of the first image to select it. Then, press and hold your Shift key and click on the last image.

This will select the first image, the last image and all images in between. Notice that with three images selected, my Preview panel is displaying larger previews of all three images. The Preview panel can display up to nine images at a time:. Let's say I decide I really like these three photos.

I may want to indicate that by giving them a five star rating. With all three images selected, I'll go up to the Label menu at the top of the screen. From there, I'll choose five stars. Choose No Rating to clear the previous rating from the image.

For images you know you don't want to keep, choose Reject :. Once you've rated some images, you can filter the Content panel to show only images with a certain rating. Click the Filter Items by Rating icon the star in the upper right of the Bridge interface. Then, choose an option from the menu. To view only my 5 star images, I'll choose Show 5 Stars :.

And now, only those three images with a 5 star rating remain in the Content panel. Images with fewer than 5 stars, or no rating at all, are temporarily hidden. We can also choose to view only rejected images, or images with no rating.

Or, we can view only images with our without a color label assigned to them:. To view all of your images once again, click on the Filter Items by Rating icon and choose Clear Filter from the top of the menu:.

Below the Preview panel on the right are the Metadata and Keywords panels nested together in a group. Both of these panels are extremely valuable. The Metadata panel displays everything we'd want to know about an image.

We can view the shot date, the camera settings that were used, and the file size and type. We can also view the image's color mode and bit depth, or whether or not the flash fired, and lots more. The Metadata panel can also be used to add additional details to the image, like our copyright and contact info.

Use the scroll bar along the right to scroll through all the details. The Keywords panel is nested in beside the Metadata panel. Click on the Keywords tab to open it. The Keywords panel lets us create descriptive keywords and assign them to images. Later, when we need to find those images again, we can search for them by their keywords. To add a new keyword, click the New Keyword button at the bottom, then type in your keyword. To assign an existing keyword to an image, select the image in the Content panel.

Then, click inside the checkbox of the keyword you want to assign. You can assign multiple keywords to the same image. To remove a keyword, select the image in the Content panel, then uncheck the keyword:. Below the Favorites and Folders panel on the left of Bridge is the Filter panel. Earlier, we saw that we can filter images displayed in the Content panel based on their star rating. But that's nothing compared with what the Filter panel can do. We can use the Filter panel to filter images by keyword, the date created, whether the image is in landscape or portrait orientation, by aperture, shutter speed and ISO settings, focal length, and lots more.

We can even filter images by camera model or the particular lens that was used. To use the Filter panel, click on the various category headings to open and close them. Then click on any of the filter options in the category to select them.