Do anyone here still use bridge (CS3) ? I'm wondering what are the upgrades or the differences between the two. I do all my color changes and minute changes in bridge, what will be different in Light room. I'm asking in this forum because we all use these types of software for the same things (weddings). Any opinoins will be helpful.

I highly recommend you download the thirty day trial of LR and watch these tutorials:

LR 2.0 What's New - Part 1
LR 2.0 What's New - [/url]Part 2
LR 2.0 What's New - Part 3

That should give you the best indicator if LR is for you.

I never really used Bridge (CS2) much. In fact my primary use for it was adding copyright/image owner info to the metadata. That can be done in LR.

I subscribe to several RSS feeds that push maximizing what you can do in LR. That said; LR can not currently do everything that Photoshop can and from what Adobe says about it, it probably never will. Adobe sees LR and Photoshop as supporting products. I have to agree. For some of my photography it is perfectly okay to only use LR. For portraits I often batch process somewhat in LR and then process individual images in Photoshop.

Since Bridge (CS3) is compatible with LR(and comes with photoshop CS3), it really doesn't matter which one you utilize as long as it suits you and your workflow, but personally I think that LR clobbers Bridge in ease of use, functionality and capability.

With Lightroom 1.4 as my primary editor, I still used CS3 to compliment, for selective edits. But with the new ability to do selective edits in LR2, I doubt I'll ever get into photoshop for simpler jobs such as wedding and event photography.

Chris M
www.imagineimagery.com

ChrisDM wrote:
With Lightroom 1.4 as my primary editor, I still used CS3 to compliment, for selective edits. But with the new ability to do selective edits in LR2, I doubt I'll ever get into photoshop for simpler jobs such as wedding and event photography.

Chris M
www.imagineimagery.com

I agree, Lightroom 2.0 is very impressive.

PhotoDude79 wrote:
Do anyone here still use bridge (CS3) ? I'm wondering what are the upgrades or the differences between the two. I do all my color changes and minute changes in bridge, what will be different in Light room. I'm asking in this forum because we all use these types of software for the same things (weddings). Any opinoins will be helpful.

Do you mean ACR and/or PS3? Bridge is "primarily" the browser and DAM with functions linked to ACR and PS3. So comparing Bridge to LR is not exactly the way to go unless you're looking at keywording, EXIF updating, etc.

butchM wrote:
I highly recommend you download the thirty day trial of LR and watch these tutorials:

LR 2.0 What's New - Part 1
LR 2.0 What's New - [/url]Part 2
LR 2.0 What's New - Part 3

That should give you the best indicator if LR is for you.

thanks for posting the tutorials.

BTW, no contest. Lightroom 2 is terrific.