Adobe Bridge makes your life easier
Rating: 10 out of 10
June 23, 2021
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Vetted Review
Verified User
6 years of experience
I am using Adobe Bridge to catalog all my images, videos, and other images I have that I use for compositing photographs, creating painted portraits, and videos for advertising. I have dyslexia and this makes it so much easier for me to categorize and catalog my vast library so I don't spend hours looking for things.
- It saves me hours by quickly batch renaming files.
- The ability to compare two or three images easily and zoom in on the minor details makes it so much easier for me to figure out which are the better files to work with.
- Culling through hundreds of images to narrow down to the best 15 images can be done in just minutes.
- It's a billion times easier to see the files and their file names so when you think you named something one thing and discover that you're past self was a dork for naming things incorrectly...it doesn't take you hours to find it.
Cons
- It took me a while to figure out how to get Bridge to work faster. Apparently, you need it to cache your entire library and once that library is cached then it can refer to those files quickly.
- It takes up more space on your computer and you should consider buying a computer with plenty of space and a great graphics card to help this program work at its best.
- I wish it would recognize that firewall software and virus protection software isn't its enemy and work with them running all the time. This error doesn't always occur for me, but when it does, I am annoyed.
- The ability to cull quickly.
- The ability to see zoomed in differences between files so I can quickly decide which one will be used.
- How easy it is to find different files and how it shows you where the file is stored.
- Basically Bridge is the reason why I can work faster.
- It's saved me probably thousands of hours at this point. I used to spend so much time looking for different files and now I can find them all quickly.
- I can now decide which are the 15 images I will deliver from a portrait session within 10 minutes. It used to take me around an hour to open them each up and start deciding.
- I quit negatively speaking to myself for misnaming files and then never being able to find them.
- I only complain about Adobe Bridge when it doesn't work with a firewall and I have to turn it off or restart my computer.
Okay so I've actually tried to use Lightroom. Photoshop is its own beast and doesn't have the catalog that Bridge of Lightroom has. Lightroom is not as powerful with being able to check between images, finding files, etc. I wanted to love it, but Bridge won hands down with all the time it has saved me so I can get back to my children instead of complaining that it takes me so much time to narrow down images.