Lightroom & Bridge

MuGeN · 11 Apr 2009 at 01:03

Hi...

I'm still deliberating between Lightroom 2 and Bridge CS4 - I own the Design Premium thingamajig but am just trialing the LR2 software to see if i like it...

anyway, one of the things i've noticed while testing is that you can use camera-raw edits on jpgs, now in LR this is stored in a central database but you can also do this in bridge (CMD+R) and still have the ability to reset to the original, hence this data must be stored somewhere - anyone know how this works and where its "sidecar" data is?

EDIT: and also, if i go with LR and decide to switch back is there a way to preserve my develop settings into the DNG files? i know DNG files can indeed contain this info but can i make lightroom populate the files with this information so the changes are made to the hard files? (still obviously editable later if need be)? - don't know how this would work with JPGs...

greedy123 · 11 Apr 2009 at 01:17

LR all the way, interface is so easy to use. Lots more tools available too. Once I started using lightroom I was hooked and have never gone back. It is THE photo application to have!

MuGeN · 11 Apr 2009 at 08:57

hmm, yeah i don't doubt thats true but i can't actually find anything that lightroom does loads better...

(this is vs CS4 bridge btw not CS3) - bridge has raw editing, keywords, a nice review mode, collections, smart collections, etc etc...

lightroom has a nice ability to paint keywords for speed and has a better version of the keywords system but what else?

flying grouse · 11 Apr 2009 at 14:00

Full review from
Source
Photographyreview.com et al., September 22nd, 2008 by kwc

Quote;
Photoshop and Bridge CS4 are not Lightroom killers — Adobe wouldn’t be a very good company if they were. However, I’m sometimes asked for recommendations from friends as to whether they should buy Lightroom or Photoshop for their photography. The traditionalist in me would want to say, “You have to own Photoshop,” but the truth was Lightroom (or Aperture) was a far superior product 95% of the time. The best answer usually was to buy Lightroom first and then save up for Photoshop second. Now, I might actually reverse that. Most of my work is sports photography that could entirely be handled with Lightroom, but I’ve also been doing some studio work that really needs Photoshop for its advanced retouching capabilities. While I really want to get Lightroom one of these days, I’ve been quite happy living with CS4, much more than I was with CS3. I will definitely save time once I get Lightroom, but at least now I can afford to wait.