Your own metadata like people shown in the image, the location it was taken,
It was taken with, the settings (aperture, shutter speed, ISO etc), and so on. Metadata is all of the information that might be attached toĪ photograph, how it was taken, who it belongs to, and so on.Īttaches data to an image, which when you look at it-as you can inīridge-will tell you things like when the photo was taken, the camera and lens You’d be better off using the rating system to reject, which I’ll go into shortly. Wouldn’t delete anything in this way (unless perhaps the image is a complete write-off), Warning asking if you want to send it to the recycling bin. Sounds, if you right-click on an image and hit Delete you’ll get a pop-up Place rather than renaming and then needing to shift images to another folder. There’s a further option withinīatch Rename to move or copy to another folder, so you can do everything in one Well as adding information like date and time. More than just choosing a file name, you can number images sequentially, as This applies to you, you’ll likely also find the Batch Rename option of use too.
Working on multiple series, or a series broken down into sub-categories. Two of the most useful featuresĪre a right-click copy to or move to which will display a list of favouriteĪnd recently used folders, or allow you to choose one not listed. Other useful options to help with organisation. Organise, Move, Rename, andĮasily group and move your photographs into appropriate folders, Bridge has Viewing individual photos, and then some smaller tabbed menu options like Metadata and Keywords, that I can easily flip between but aren’t showing all It simple and have the content Thumbnails visible, a large Preview area for Personally, for photo sorting, I like to keep You can also choose to have your thumbnails at the side, or atĪbsolutely everything on the screen at once, and that is possible, if a littleĬluttered and confusing at times. That it’s very instinctive to make layout adjustments in Bridge, and you canĬhoose the size of your thumbnails by simply dragging that content window to Layout will depend entirely on your own personal preferences.
Importing into a catalogue as with Lightroom – it’s displaying the information right from your Logically, with the one you require opening with a click. For the purposes of this article, though, we’ll beīridge navigates the hierarchical file systems on Windows and macOS, where folders are displayed Viewing Image Files in Bridgeįile in Bridge, they don’t have to be photography related, or even associated Into some of the main features and how you can use them effectively. Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, you'll also be able to open and edit RAW files in Adobe Camera Raw. If you happen to have an older, licensed version of an Adobe program, like
Of the Adobe CC, it's free to download and use independently-you'll need an Adobe account.
Suites like Photoshop and Lightroom or other image processors. Bridge can be used asĪ standalone file-sorting program and a companion app for other Adobe Lets you view images, search, sort and much more. Adobe Bridge can be a very useful tool in your photographic workflow.