Folders can be simple, like a date, but when imported into Lightroom can be put into a collection called "Sam's 30th Birthday". You must import your files from folders into a Catalogue, into a hierarchy that can be completely independent of how the files were originally on disk. Lightroom, on the other hand, works off a database. You organise your images how you like them on disk, Bridge will let you rate them, add tags and so forth.
The biggest difference for me is that Bridge and Photoshop work off folders. I do have Photoshop CS3, but I can't say I'm particularly well-versed in its use! Switch to Photoshop for pixel-level precision, intelligent content-aware editing, and advanced tools for masking, layer blending, realistic painting, compositing, selecting intricate image content, and more.įor my use, Lightroom is plenty enough and I don't find myself particularly limited, but then I don't want to do HDR or panoramas at present. Lightroom offers a broad range of state-of-the-art tools for developing individual images and for efficiently adjusting many images at once. To quote Adobe's "Complete Photography Solution" page Photoshop can still be used to carry out the heavier image manipulations (removing items, HDR, Stitch Panoramas, amongst others see the "Develop and Perfect" tab here). Only when you want to export your images are your changes used when a JPEG/PNG/TIFF/Whatever image file is produced from the RAW file. Your entire workflow works on the RAW files, with the changes you want to make to your images being stored as you go. It's also very important to note that Lightroom manipulations are non-destructive. I know you can do this sort of thing in Photoshop, but Lightroom is designed to make this as easy as possible, and to guide you through your workflow. That is to say it manages the importing, keyword/meta-ing, basic (non-destructive) manipulation and exporting of images. If I'm traveling with my laptop somewhere and shooting and editing as I go, when I come back I'll export as catalog and then go to my desktop and say "Import from another catalog" and it will bring everything back into my main catalog.Lightroom is an image-management application, that can also perform non-destructive edits to your photos. In those cases I can select some (or theoretically all of the files if I have enough space) from my home computer and "Export as catalog" to an external drive and I can open that catalog on another machine. I've got a laptop and I might use at computer at the school I teach at or in one of the labs where i work. It's got a huge external, but that never leaves that machine. My desktop at home is where everything lives. Personally I LR when I treat one machine as the "Home base" and my other machines as kind of landing pads. While there are people who have come up with ways like I mentioned above to have it work better on multiple machines. you can always write the metadata out to XML and resync the drive when switching (if you're doing it frequently) or you can use the "Export as Catalog" and "Import from an external Catalog" to move files back and forth between different catalogues on different computers. There are some ways to make LR work better when switching back and forth. That said it's painfully slow searching trying to find a file based on keywords if your cache is out of date compared to how quickly LR can drill down to just the files you want. Just files on a server that you organize and a cache of metadata This is good at work. Bridge is better for having files on a server and having multiple people access the server across multiple machines because there really isn't a file system or catalog. I use the MacBook exlusively for travel when I get back from my trip, I migrate the files over to the Master and delete them from the MacBook. Personally, what I do is I have one "Master" LR catalog on my iMac. Do you keep the LR catalog on the hard drive? I would think backing up the hard drive would be as simple as synching it, say, weekly, to another hard drive. You say you work from an external hard drive. Video here (20 minutes) may help you decide: But Lightroom's big weakness is that it isn't multi-user. I think Lightroom's strengths become more apparent if you shoot a lot. It also saves the history of your develop settings.īridge is pretty robust, but can't do much that isn't supported by file metadata itself. It also lets you save develop and printing presets, instead of having to do set these up every time. Bridge is just a file browser.Ī big advantage of LR is that it lets you create virtual copies with different develop settings. They look similar, but are different approaches.
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