Anyone Using Adobe's Bridge?

[Joy Foraker]

G-man made an interesting point on another thread:

I don?t need Adobe?s Forums to understand that Bridge is the most bloated resource hog I?ve used in long time. Not only takes it a long time to load, it?s also 60MB and has a slow interface.

I couldn't agree with him more.
I never use Bridge for those very reasons, now I'm wondering, does anyone in Guruland use Bridge, and if so, how does it help you? Or did Adobe fire a dud ?

[Shaun]

Yes - no problems; I find it quite handy.
The only time I had a problem was when I opened a folder with some 200 images - Bridge was a bit sluggish then - so I split the folder.
It's especially useful if you have a folder full of jpgs - you can see the images - and delete them etc.

[Gaussian]

Bridge v1.0.4: 60MB, 15 sec first start, 4 sec second start.

Interface speed (thumbnails already cached):





AcdSee v3.1: 8MB, 2 sec first start, < 0.5 second start.

Interface speed (thumbnails already cached):




I don't know, but maybe my idea about speed is different.??

I don't even compare the time it takes in Bridge to create thumbnails compared to AcdSee, it would be one big? session...

[Gaussian]

A test folder contains 155 photographs, 2048x1537pixels.

Time to create thumbnails,

Bridge 205 sec
AcdSee 35 sec

[Tempus]

I've been using ACDsee forever and the lst two versions of Bridge just reinforced my affection for ACDsee. I base my liking on speed and ease of organizing, reviewing and reorganizing files. I'll often have 1,000 plus images in a folder and in the time it takes for Bridge to load them I can open ACDsee, browse for my image and send it to PS or whatever and get started. Plus I like being able to double click an image and have a full screen preview instantly.

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Gaussian

A test folder contains 155 photographs, 2048x1537pixels.
Time to create thumbnails,
Bridge 205 sec
AcdSee 35 sec

But it doesn't run on OSX ....

[ronmatt]

I don't like it. Adobe, with all their bells and whistles, seems to have absolutely no regard for workflow. They're creating memory hogs which bottom lines to inefficiency. 2 G of ram to run pscs effectively is bizzaar. By the time the 'BRIDGE' actually loads and performs, I've already found what I was looking for manually. Plus, I can't get my head around the re-training of my workflow procedures. Bridge aside, Adobe could learn a thing or two about application interfacing from ZBrush. That's the sweatest set-up I've seen. Almost 100% customizable. [My 2.5 cents]

[Lee]

Has anyone tried Adobe's Lightroom Beta or Apples Aperture?

[sPECtre]

Are you all running version 1.04 of Bridge?
Did you let it create thumbnails for all your images?

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by sPECtre

Are you all running version 1.04 of Bridge?
Did you let it create thumbnails for all your images?

Mine says 1.0.4.6, and yes.