![]() The Bridge is also supposed to be used as a file manager, so it should be at least as good at moving a single file to a nested folder as the OS X Finder (which gets more user scorn than a Trojan condom). You can drag from the thumbnails though, so emailing images is just a matter of a drag and drop to the Dock. ![]() I don't expect the Bridge to do much but having to open an image in Photoshop or Acrobat to print a native Adobe format or convert a TIFF to a JPEG seems pretty lame. The Bridge relies too much on the other Adobe apps, so all of the editing/printing things have to be done from their respective programs. It doesn't convert images, e-mail them as attachments, upload them, print them, lock them or many of the other things you would potentially do with images in a day-to-day scenario beyond just browsing them. If you're hoping to use the Bridge to do much beyond browsing, it's not going to impress. Sorry, I don't do printing or uploading, you want that guy over there. The image browser stakes are already high so coming in now means a lot of work to catch up. Now imagine that every month or so over six versions. I counted 41 new and updated features as well as bug fixes for a 0.0.1 update. Just read a single updated features list for GraphicConverter and you'll realize how hard ONE GUY (Thorsten Lemke) is working on GC. In short, there's nothing revolutionary about an image browser.Īdobe is filling a gap while trying to integrate it with its other apps to make for a smoother workflow, which is welcome from the standpoint of working with their products but people have been filling this gap for years. Some offer batch file renaming, finding duplicates based on image similarity, ftp uploading, importing from a digital camera, and OS-specific things like file locking and labeling. While most assume that you're going to do your serious image editing in another app like Photoshop and offer easy ways to take your file there, all offer simple editing/management things like lossless JPEG rotation, format conversion, slideshows and duplicate/move/delete. On the Mac side, the big ones are GraphicConverter, ViewIt and iView MediaPro and on the Windows side, ACDSee and ThumbsPlus are popular (If your favorite isn't here, drop a "Yoyoyoyoyo, shout out to my app ImageCavorter9000!!!" in the discussion thread). Whether you're a photographer, texture artist, or one of the millions of people with a digital camera, you're used to working with a lot of images and probably have a program that does browsing and file management and does it well. If Adobe is offering the Bridge as an integral part of a workflow, it's going to have to unseat the browsing champs. Which leads us to? How it compares to the competition But, as mentioned later on, it?s definitely faster than other similar apps. I had a 1.5 GB folder full of layered 300 dpi spreads and it took a good minute to build previews for all of the PSD and EPS working files in the folder. It takes a while to generate previews for large files. Also, if you don't like that big tile-fest sitting on your screen in the background after you've opened an image into Photoshop, hold option when doubleclicking an image and it will hide in the background.Īs far thumbnail generation goes, it works much like iView: first grabbing the built-in thumbnails and then rebuilding larger ones after. You can control the background color, which I set to match the old default from iView. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Camera Raw\6.The preview pane and metadata: handles animated formats like a champ. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Camera Raw\5.0 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Bridge CS5Ĭ:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Bridge CS5\Cache\ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Bridge CS4Ĭ:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Bridge CS4\Cache\ HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ACD Systems\ACDSee Pro\40Ĭ:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\40Pro\Default\Thumb1.fpt, Thumb2.fpt. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ACD Systems\ACDSee Pro\30Ĭ:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\Catalogs\30Pro\Default\Thumb1.fpt, Thumb2.fpt. The best way to get these entries to be tested on more operating systems than you own, it is best to add these entry to the public sourced winapp2.iniīasically your response to me was uncalled for because I was attempting to aid you in your suggestion so that, in the end, the programs are added to the default program
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