Comments on: 100 Reasons Why Lightroom Still Kicks The Bridge’s A$#!

By: Linda J Maier

Linda J Maier — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:49:56 +0000

You should give Bridge an honest comparison trial before you post something like this. Some of your comments about what you can’t do in Bridge pop up in a Google search that is flat-out incorrect! I read through your list and many of your comments are wrong because you CAN do them in Bridge. It’s clear that you haven’t even recently tried the program so it makes you look foolish.

I’m a fan of yours and I’m a long-time user and fan of Lightroom Classic. My entire photo library is imported into LR Classic, however, it gets very complicated when traveling/merging catalogs and that’s why I decided to explore other options and decided to give Bridge a decent try. I’m ditching LR for 30 days and fully emerging in Bridge/ACR/PS.

I’m hopeful that with Bridge/ACR/PS I can just edit on the road and upload and import when I return home but I need to learn it first. I’m currently taking a 10.00 class that covers it all and after using it for only two weeks I already see many advantages. My first reaction is that the responsiveness and speed are far better in Bridge for culling, and editing in ACR is nearly the same as in LR once you learn where everything is. It’s a good program. There are some features LR has that Bridge doesn’t and some that Bridge has that LR doesn’t. Less than half of your list is accurate. The print module and book module are definite wins for LR. You can do better than this.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:15:16 +0000

You could have just as easily written an article about “100 Reasons PS still kicks LR’s a$$”. Bridge was never written to be everything LR is or they would have sunset it years ago. Sorry I just don’t see the benefit of pointing out all the differences in an article to put one above the other. Each has its place in my workflow as it should be, IMO. Oranges are so much better than apples at doing orangey things. 😉

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:00:55 +0000

In reply to Carlos Oliveras.

Good point, Carlos – I missed that (and I’m going to add it to the list). 🙂 Cheers.

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By: Carlos Oliveras

Carlos Oliveras — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 18:11:35 +0000

Great post. Every now and then, some people ask me why use Lightroom Classic over Bridge, and I don’t even know where to begin. Next time I think I’ll be sending them over to your post.

I’m not 100% sure, but I think another missing feature in Bridge is that you can’t tell it to manage jpeg+raws as a single element, like you can do in LR (or disable it from Preferences/General). But then again, I might be wrong (or maybe it’s already on the list?).

Thanks for sharing and have a great one.

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 23:16:42 +0000

In reply to Gregg Shupe.

Hi, Gregg:
As for #1 – Lightroom has the same feature, and you can do the exact same naming tasks are just as easy there. As for #2, you can do the same in Lightroom, but if you like Bridge’s dialog better, I get ya (and I hear you about sharing the same Info templates across the apps). 🙂

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By: Gregg Shupe

Gregg Shupe — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:47:58 +0000

HI Scott,

I agree to most of this but there is a few things that Bridge does better, in my mind. And in my work flow I way start in Bridge first before importing into Lightroom Classic.

1- Renaming. You can set up templates and use them to re-name all the files. In my case my files are renamed like this 001_YYMMDD_Project_Name.Filetype or 001_231020_Boston_Lifestyle.NEF
Plus if you need to make a change to a small part of renaming. Like correct a spelling error. You can do this in Bridge but not at this point in Lightroom Classic.

2- Updating File Information. The file information templates in Bridge are easier to Populate, Change are Rename.

Once these actions have been completed. I then import into Lightroom Classic.

I also use Bridge a lot in managing post processed files. IE. In delivering final images, my picks are post processed in Lightroom Classic into under 5 meg JPGs and either full TIFFs or PSD in separate folders for each. Which are named similar to original raw files. That way in Bridge they are easily found and ready to distribute through apps like Dropbox or WeTransfer.

I do wish that the information templates could be cross app usable between Lightroom Classic and Bridge. Which they are not at this point.

Gregg Shupe – Architectural Photographer – Boston Area.