Adobe Bridge for Sorting and Organizing? There's a Meetup group having a session about "Organizing and Sorting" images, and it will focus "mostly on Adobe Bridge." I never thought of...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

There's a Meetup group having a session about "Organizing and Sorting" images, and it will focus "mostly on Adobe Bridge." I never thought of that as a sorting program. Since this is over an hour away, and it costs $15, I think I'll skip it.

Do any of you use Bridge for sorting?

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

jerryc41 wrote:

There's a Meetup group having a session about "Organizing and Sorting" images, and it will focus "mostly on Adobe Bridge." I never thought of that as a sorting program. Since this is over an hour away, and it costs $15, I think I'll skip it.

Do any of you use Bridge for sorting?

I do and I prefer it over LR in every which way!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

speters wrote:

I do and I prefer it over LR in every which way!

That seems to get very little online publicity.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

jerryc41 wrote:

There's a Meetup group having a session about "Organizing and Sorting" images, and it will focus "mostly on Adobe Bridge." I never thought of that as a sorting program. Since this is over an hour away, and it costs $15, I think I'll skip it.

Do any of you use Bridge for sorting?

I found bridge works OK for that. However, I designed my own database, wrote a front and back end in Visual Basic, and stored the thumbnails on a server. This way I can customize, almost on the fly, find the images I want and then work on them in any of the image processing apps I use.

After doing a search for a simply process to use, I found that every application out there also contained a processing app. I didn't want that. I just wanted to search and sort. The other issue I had was that of continuously needing to remember keywords as I added them to the mix.

Yes, it's an ongoing project, but works pretty well so far.
--Bob

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

jerryc41 wrote:

There's a Meetup group having a session about "Organizing and Sorting" images, and it will focus "mostly on Adobe Bridge." I never thought of that as a sorting program. Since this is over an hour away, and it costs $15, I think I'll skip it.

Do any of you use Bridge for sorting?

I used it for organizing for 2-3 years, then switched to Lightroom and prefer Lightroom by a long shot. I still use Photoshop, but access it via LR.

big-guy Loc: Peterborough Ontario Canada

In a nutshell, they both work fine but....

Bridge: you do all the heavy lifting all the time

LR: set up the parameters you want and let LR do all the heavy lifting (the key here, is to set up your parameters to your liking)

DavidPine Loc: Fredericksburg, TX

I agree with you. Once you understand the data management system of LR, it's hard to beat. I have found that many users just start importing from an SD or CF card without any thoughts about catalogs, collections, file system and whatnot. After several imports they tend to go nuts retrieving their files or a specific image. It's is hard to correct but it is much easier to begin correctly. These same people blame LR when it is their own fault. I went through this mess but I made the corrections and now my life is easy as far as LR is concerned.

big-guy wrote:

In a nutshell, they both work fine but....

Bridge: you do all the heavy lifting all the time

LR: set up the parameters you want and let LR do all the heavy lifting (the key here, is to set up your parameters to your liking)

Jim Plogger Loc: East Tennessee

speters wrote:

I do and I prefer it over LR in every which way!

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

jerryc41 wrote:

There's a Meetup group having a session about "Organizing and Sorting" images, and it will focus "mostly on Adobe Bridge." I never thought of that as a sorting program. Since this is over an hour away, and it costs $15, I think I'll skip it.

Do any of you use Bridge for sorting?

Adobe created Bridge to help with organization long before Lightroom was developed. I've read several times where there is serious consideration being given to the discontinuation of the product, now that Lightroom is available.

big-guy Loc: Peterborough Ontario Canada

I know scores of individuals who resemble your remark. :)

DavidPine wrote:

I agree with you. Once you understand the data man... (show quote)

Kuzano

jerryc41 wrote:

There's a Meetup group having a session about "Organizing and Sorting" images, and it will focus "mostly on Adobe Bridge." I never thought of that as a sorting program. Since this is over an hour away, and it costs $15, I think I'll skip it.

Do any of you use Bridge for sorting?

Jerry...

Bridge was the original organizer (sort n organize) that came as a partner to photoshop for a long time. It is free standing from Photoshop which is it's advantage. I just downloaded the CS2 that Adobe decided to release free, and guess, what.... Bridge came with it.

It is JUST an organizer, so if you work with photoshop exclusively, it is a far better choice than LightRoom.

I can never get a proper import into LightRoom, so gave up on it. But I love Bridge.

Frankly, I have never found an organizer the worked worth a shit when it was combined with an edit program, and I truly think Adobe's catalog style system is the worst way to create a data base for managing folders and files.