Adobe Bridge Won T Show Raw Thumbnails' title='Adobe Bridge Won T Show Raw Thumbnails' />Why I Use ACDSee Versus Adobe Bridge for Culling Images and More. A Post By Richard Messsenger. Believe me, I have tried. Over the years, I have tried to wean myself off ACDSee. But, like Al Pacino in The Godfather, Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. ACDSee does what I want it to do and, as a single package, and it does it better than anything else I have found. I use Lightroom as a factory, a mass production tool. I import the images, I process them, thats it. For a long time, I have felt no urge to look at anything other than the Library and Develop modules. The wood shed. Continuing the analogy, what I might call handcrafted images, are processed in the garden shed, with Photoshop. Pretty much everything else I do in ACDSee. ACDSee in place of Adobe Bridge. First and foremost, ACDSee is an Adobe Bridge replacement for me. For something like 8. I use about 2. 0 of its capacity, that is its ability to act in the place of Bridge. I am certain that I have only launched Adobe Bridge once in the last year. I had to do it just once to write this article ACDSee simply does it better in my opinion. Standard file manager style screen. Any of the different versions, even the most basic of them, meet my needs. The screen shots for this article are from ACDSee Ultimate, but my previous experience is that all versions work in a similar way. You would need to work out just how many bells and whistles you wanted to invest in. ACDSee offers a good comparison of the different versions on their website. I am sure you would find that ACDSee is not a challenging piece of software, it works quite conventionally. This article may well invite some comments suggesting that such and such software does that too, and I am sure that is true. Is the elephant in the room Photo Mechanic, is it Irfan View, or even Adobe Bridge I am also sure that there are even others. Adobe Bridge Won T Show Raw Thumbnails' title='Adobe Bridge Won T Show Raw Thumbnails' />So I try others, I give them a go, but I end up back in the arms of the little known all around beauty which is ACDSee. Lifestyle. I tend to be a little bemused when I have heard people talk about having a lifestyle. I have wondered if I ought to get myself such a thing. My reaction is not much different when people talk about having a workflow. Different situations seem to me to require different approaches, and I have wondered if I should get myself a workflow. The truth is that I am not totally slapdash. For example, if I have been out on a photo walk, there is a routine which I tend to follow. Stepping through that routine seems a good way to look at some aspects of ACDSee. Here is my process. IMPORTING IMAGESACDSee provides a ton of choices for importing photographs, let me highlight just one. Import window of ACDSee. I am a huge believer in the adage that Data only exists if it exists in two places. The extension of that thought is that you do not actually have a backup until you have a third copy. Presuming that you leave your images on the card in the camera, ACDSee gives you the choice to make two copies on import and to give you those second and third copies of your images. The first copy can be imported to one folder and the second copy can be imported to another location. That might just prove to be a very useful safety net one day. You might be glad you tried ACDSee for this reason alone. It might be a consequence of having used computers since before The Ark, but I still tend to think in terms of named and dated folders. Libraries, collections and the like, clearly work for some, but I import to my datelocation file structure, then into Lightroom from there. THE CULLING PROCESSOne of the most important parts of my workflow Oops I just admit to something is the culling process. I will take a long time sorting through the photographs, in sweeps, which are progressively more demanding, deleting those which I do not want to spend time processing. C714&ssl=1' alt='Adobe Bridge Won T Show Raw Thumbnails' title='Adobe Bridge Won T Show Raw Thumbnails' />Have Album Starter Ed. Not techy so didnt know about that. When I try to save pix off my camera, they seem to automatically go. Learn how to select and download photos from your digital camera or memory card to your computer using Adobe Bridge CS5 and the Photo Downloader This weekend I rented a Canon 5D Mark iii. I have downloaded the files and all of the thumbnails in camera raw say CR2 and when I try to open Photoshop. Dont get me wrong, its good to start your day off on the right foot. For me that means chugging a glass of water, walking the dog, making a quick proteinrich. ACDSee helps me with the cull in at least 3 ways. ACDSee is fast with RAW files. Subjectively, I tend to find Adobe Bridge rather clunky to operate and slow in responding. It was painfully slow to open a folder and draw the thumbnails on a computer with quite high specifications. The same folder was opened, with thumbnails and images viewable very promptly, in less than ten seconds with ACDSee. It was taking so long with Bridge, the images were still not viewable after 2 minutes, that I moved to another copy I have of the same images on a faster, SSD drive. Im happy to announce that my preset package for Premiere Pro CS6 is available for free download. All 63 presets are compatible with Premiere Pro CS6, and can be We. In all fairness, Bridge was then just as quick as ACDSee. Adobe Bridge. Objectively, ACDSee is faster at drawing a RAW file than Bridge to an insane degree. I took shot Image A and opened it to a full screen view in ACDSee, then in Bridge. Then I reversed the process and opened Image B in Bridge first, then in ACDSee. Both ways, using ACDSee, the image was clear, viewable in sharp detail, within 2 seconds. Using Bridge, after more than 3. I gave up, clicked to zoom in, and only then did it become a clear, sharp, fully drawn image. That adds up to an awful lot of time over the years. I cannot fathom that there is anyone who likes sitting and waiting for their computer to catch up. Not only would you save a huge amount of time cumulatively, it also makes for a much more satisfying experience. Comparing images is easy with ACDSee. Second, the process of culling is easier because ACDSee offers an excellent tool for comparing photographs in close detail. I know Lightroom offers something similar, probably others do too, but none seem to work as well as that in ACDSee. Often I will have a series of four or five shots or more which are largely similar. ACDSee lets you put those shots on screen, next to each other, all at the same time. Actually, I think it works best with just three on screen at a time. Three or more photographs compared side by side. The choice as to which photograph to keep often comes down to a technical decision such as which shot is the sharpest. For a portrait, that usually means looking at the eye. With ACDSee, when you zoom in on one of the photographs which you are comparing, all of the shots zoom in to the same point, at the same level. Again, I acknowledge that other software probably does this, but I have not come across all the things I want, working as well as they do, in one package. All three shots zoomed in to the same level. Full screen mode. The third way in which ACDSee helps me cull images is that it goes to full screen so very easily and quickly. It displays photographs in the way I want to see them. Full screen, with no window border, no mouse pointer. Double click or hit Enter and you are in full screen. Also CrtlCmdscroll wheel zooms you in. That is how I want to view photographs. Then, there are two bonuses. First, a right click option is Zoom Lock, which means I can Page Up and Page Down between shots which are full screen and zoomed in to the same point and level. Adorage Magic Free Software Download. You might even prefer this to the side by side comparison. The next bonus, which can be useful now and then, is that the EXIF data can be brought up very quickly with ALTOPTIONEnter in the full screen view mode. Full screen mode, with the EXIF data, added on the right. All the above is mostly about ACDSee being used as a replacement for Adobe Bridge. One important thing I have not squeezed in so far is that you can open an image straight into Photoshop from ACDSee. It does the file browser function of Bridge just as well, and a very easy keystroke combination of CtrlCmdAltX takes the image into Photoshop.