Why you Should use BRIDGE Instead of Lightroom!

Latest Bridge Beta has Multi Window back. Also they have added the feature to customize keyboard shortcuts. Its awesome.

There is no free adobe bridge. You have to install adobe creative cloud in your computer. No way I am going to do that. Adobe can sniff any one with their "free" software. Not me. I will find something else. I don't use and will not use anything from adobe from now until the day I die. Screw adobe and their greed.

I needed this. I use Lightroom Classic a lot

How can I move (unimported) files from one drive to another. Bridge doesn't seem to have a master folder on the left and then the ability to leave one folder open while opening another, to drag the files from one to another folder. In File Explorer, I can also open two instances, and do whatever I need.

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This is an amazing video! I didn't even know Bridge was a thing. I've just been defaulting straight to Lightroom. I heard about it from Valentina Vee, who mentioned briefly in her video and your video showed up next in the suggested videos. And then you went into so much depth explaning how to use it in a concise way while fully demonstrating its power. Thank you for sharing. Great video...

I have always used bridge to review my images and then open them up in camera Raw and then photo shop, I’m a professional photographer, that’s why I get the big bucks!

Been using Canon's DPP to sift through albums for years. Bought a maxed out Mini Pro M2 and used DPP for the first week, no problems. Figured I'd make the switch to Lightroom for better compatibility with PS. Previewing for keepers has been nothing but a hassle because of the awful UI. The worst part is it's laggy and nearly made my computer crash! Having to import is ridiculous and this morning I realized camera raw is essentially Lightroom so why am I even dealing with Lightroom...why not Bridge! So here I am after searching adobe bridge vs lightroom. Time to change my workflow.

Will it allow you to edit in a non Adobe editor?

Do You KNOW "Photomechanics AND 'all that stuff" ..you mention ? because You (mention them) say it with such disdain ..that morally you really owe them as well as to us, why we should disdain them. (I really mean it, and ask You for your reply to if you know them and to be such nonsense.)

Hidden option C: Get Photo Mechanic. It takes a lot of set up to get your own groove going but will basically do whatever you want it to workflow-wise. You're not limited to Bridge's backwards workflow.

Sounds good for a professional with lots of shoots, but as an amateur just wipe you SD after import, then you don’t have to sift through.

When I do want a selection from my SD card it’s basically always the photos from that day, so I just choose by date in finder rather than look at previews.

Thanks for this dude! This is a life saver!

learnt some handy tips. Always used LR in the past to organise pix. I'll try bridge now. As a critique, I had to reduce playback speed to 75% to make it easier to watch. We always used to train presenters to slow down as it benefits comprehension

Ok. So I have a Creative Cloud Desktop account with Adobe and I pay for LightRoom which includes Bridge 2023. LightRoom is the web version. I got the Web Version because I access from 3 Different operating systems. Now trying to edit a raw file from the Bridge Drop-down, I am not able to because, I need to purchase either Adobe Photoshop OR LightRoom Classic. The reason I didn’t buy the classic version is so I can access my photos from anywhere, plus I didn’t want to have to constantly do updates, they are done automatically. Am I reading this correctly ? If I have and pay for the Web Versions of the software why must I download a computer program to make it work ? I don’t understand why Adobe would require this. I pay them for access so what is the problem 🤦‍♂️

Thank you! I’ve been using Photoshop since 1.0 and Bridge for 20 years or so, but last year a video convinced that I also needed to start using Lightroom. I’ve been thinking I must be getting old and crabby because it’s not intuitive and seems so much more slow and complicated than my current system. I keep swearing at it. Thank you for pointing out how I can get more out of my old friend Bridge instead of having to bend my workflow to match LR. Love the new tricks. I can hardly wait to go cull more shots. 😂

Adobe bridge is actually completely free even if you don't have an Adobe subscription! It is just hard to find on there website

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I've always prefered ACR because LR has been so slothy for years. I didn't realize just how powerful Bridge was though!

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Great stuff! 👍🏼 I also switched from Lightroom to Bridge recently after perhaps 10+ years in LR, but the thing got increasingly more sluggish over the years so at one point it was like literally pulling my hair while trying to work with it. One more tip I’d add though – instead of exporting from Bridge, export directly from Camera Raw which will give you access to the output sharpening as well.

How in the world can you get the photos to auto-advance while culling? I can't get it to work at all. I've got capslock on as well... ugh!

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I'm a Bridge, Raw, Photoshop girl - and the new version of Bridge is even better!

Haven't used Bridge yet. Thank for the tips!

Love love this video! I've been using Bridge for 10 years and am using some of your techniques, but I love hearing your workflow and I didn't know about camera raw or importing straight to LR. So cool! Also, I'll try your culling straight from the card next time (and not import the extra baggage files LOL). Thanks so much for making this video 🎯

Thank you for the video! I've been a lightroom CC user for a few years now and have never even considered giving Bridge a try. I can certainly see an upside, and I'll be giving it a try-out soon!

Thankyou Pierre for this video, I’ve been using Bridge, Raw, Photoshop workflow for nearly 20 years and it only got better and more efficient over the years. You can double click your image or images in Bridge and they will open directly into Raw which has the same UI as Lightroom, Bridge can host Raw without opening PS until you need it. You can also save from the Raw dialog as a DNG, Tiff or jpeg or you have the option of clicking on the Done button to send the newly processed image back to Bridge or open directly in PS and use Raw as a filter in PS. Can’t be bothered with Lightroom and there’s no need to worry about sidecar files, cos I always convert to DNG on download in Bridge and there's no need for a Catalogue.

Cool vid. I import all my photos on my iPad Pro with LR then let sync originals to LRC later. It’s pretty fast to review and select pics on iPad LR

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One thing people do need to be aware of with Bridge is that if you're using smart collections, Bridge has to "index" folders before smart collections can work accurately. In 90% of cases it works normally, but for example, if you have starred photos in some obscure folder and you clear the cache, you may have to navigate to that folder again so that Bridge can re-index the folder, otherwise they may not show up in your smart collection or searches. This is one glitch with Bridge (not really a glitch, but a caveat and partially because of how Bridge operates versus Lightroom, which searches a database and once you import, the data is in the database for LR and you can search it and it doesn't have to "reindex" folders). There are other advantages but this was the biggest downside I found when using Bridge. Again, 90% of the time it's not an issue, but it can be if your cache is cleared or you move between computers and the computer has not indexed the folder yet or the folder has changed significantly since it was last indexed (ie. files/folders were added and removed). The file indexing is stored with the cache so if you clear the Brdige and ACR cache, it will have to re-index folders again. I recommend that you leave the "Includes non-indexed files" option turned on for your smart collections, as this forces ACR to re-search (re-index) all folders (and in particularly, new files it finds) each time you access the Smart Collection. This does increase the time it takes for things to appear, but it does help ensure that you likely won't miss files that meet the criteria of the smart collection.

I do agree that file renaming in Bridge is better than in LR, as you can create more complex custom file naming schemes / templates in Bridge. So for me, after I download files, I generally cull in bridge quickly, rename in Bridge, and then import into LR.

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I know that Wirestock partners with Istock and Getty Images. I’m beyond excited for this partnership. However, I cannot find your images on Istock and Getty. Is this partnership is real?

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Try photo mechanic as well

Does everyone refer to the keepers as the culled photos? I thought it would be the other way around.
Awesome video, dude. I'm excited to get to know Bridge!

Hey man, i’m pretty new at photography, i got myself a canon 600d, do you have any lens recommendations, i’m currently using the EFS 15-80mm one and i’d really appreciate your help

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Shame they still haven't released an Apple M1 version of bridge yet - its still Intel based

Amazing! This is really a big help for the ones like me who's still and always learning photography. Thanks!

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I didn't know bridge, thanks for the video, I will try it. I currently use FastRawViewer that works well for me to select/copy only the candidate raw files, while reviewing them . And I import them in LR.

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