What is the function of the Bridge?

[sprucemagoo1]

You would need a circuit for that to happen, but I'm not sure what that has to do with Bridge. Could you be a clever bit of spam. I love clever spam!

[Hoogle]

gone and banned it was a bot

[sprucemagoo1]

Programmed to teach people about electrical current!

[Hoogle]

they recognise key words and then do a bit of word association with it probably in this case got the bridge from the electronic circuit board style of bridge

[yoda007]

Thanks so much ibclare I am already a subscriber to Lynda - will definitely have a look see at one of the tutorials - thanks so much!

[yoda007]

Sorry getting the hang of how the whole thread thing works - want to thank everyone for their valuable input! This has been been very helpful!

[Paul MR]

Bridge is very much under rated and missunderstood.
In essence it is a browser but can do a lot more.
Editing is not possible in Bridge, ACR (Adobe Camera Raw) is a plug-in that can be used from either Bridge or Photoshop, this is where the editing is done (same engine that is used in Lightroom so no comments on one is better than the other).
For people that create a lot of jpgs for the web, there is a fantastic utility in the Export panel "Save to Hard Drive" this can create lightning fast jps from any type of file (so long as you can see a thumbnail) as this utility uses the cached preview or fullsized preview of the document.
You can rate, label and tag your pictures, you can create collections and smart collections.
Come on folks use Bridge it's fantastic!

[Furio]

I'm not a fan of Bridge at all, it always feels to me like an ugly, quickly decorated clunky Christmas tree. The only reason why I use is it because of the thumbnail issue on Windows. I rather prefer the much better Lightroom and for the few things that Lightroom or Photoshop lacks, I quicky open Bridge and leave again as fast as possible. I also don't use Bridge to open Camera Raw, because I can do that in Photoshop instead.

Just my 2 cents.

[ibclare]

To each his own. It helps to have many opinions yoda, try it out -- Camera Raw is part of the package -- and make up your own mind.

[Furio]

To clarify; camera raw is also part of Photoshop.