- #Neofinder vs bridge archive#
- #Neofinder vs bridge full#
- #Neofinder vs bridge Offline#
- #Neofinder vs bridge plus#
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#Neofinder vs bridge archive#
It catalogs and manages all your data, so you stay in control of your data archive or disk library. Other people, however, have a good reason to want them back in LR, but they won't retain access to all of LR's very first edits and the PS edits too.NeoFinder (formerly CDFinder) rapidly organizes your data, either on external or internal disks, or any other volumes. I almost always take images out of LR into PS as Smart Objects, but I have no intention of returning those edited versions to LR to further use LR with them. Depending upon what I've done in PS, I might have a rough time re-editing the LR bits in Camera Raw and having them do anything at all without extensive work in reconstructing my edits in PS.
#Neofinder vs bridge full#
I can edit my LR (now CR) settings again by returning to PS, this time editing the original or as a Smart Object, but I'm still not going to get to have the full shebang inside LR. If he takes an SO into PS, he's got his LR settings to edit in CR, but coming back, he's got a PSD file with Edit attached to the name and if he wants to now adjust his LR settings in LR, good luck with that. He wants to be able to come back to LR and have, in that same file, all his LR settings available to modify. Sure he can use an SO, but he's not concerned with the trip to Photoshop, but the trip back. > only to lose the previous Lightroom steps / history when the file is saved back into Lightroom. I'm afraid I consider Victoria one of the leading authors and experts on LR and I'll defer to her knowledge any day, and I suspect Rick has forgotten more about LR's history as it's changed over the years than most of us ever knew, but. XMP, you can open the raw directly in PS, orĮven via Bridge edit it in CameraRaw directly. In Photoshop, simply use Edit in PS as smart object and voila. But they are excellent candidates for LR, and many of them love the fact that they only need to "deal with" Photoshop on the rare occasion they can't do something they need to do in LR. They aren't good candidates for PS or PSE. I'd both hate PS to become focused like that as customers complained it "overwhelming" (which they did to get Adobe to develop LR in the first place), and I'd also hate to not be able to recommend LR to so many users I know who really only want to do photography. The point of LR was to be easier than PS because it focused on a single workflow.
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For us PS users, that's a rather liberating concept of what we're doing, or planning to do, with our images.Īnd even though I basically use LR Classic for tethering, I would be in the company of many, many others who don't want LR and PS to merge. I remember Margulis, a rather famous image editor and author of PS books-if you don't know him, saying once that you shouldn't be too afraid of destructive editing if you know what you're doing-after all, you wouldn't be editing the image if you didn't want to "destroy" some of the pixels you have in your original image. It's either that or you have to redo some of your edits, but your CR settings are still safe inside the SO.
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To have any edits to those settings ripple through to your PS edits, you could use Camera Raw instead, open it as an SO, then be very careful to make only adjustments in PS that won't prevent an edit to your CR settings from being seeing through all the layers on top.
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You don't actually lose your previous LR settings if you edit a copy-they're just in the file without the PS settings.
#Neofinder vs bridge Offline#
I use NeoFinder for offline cataloging and Bridge for online management-but I could use only the catalog system if I wanted.
#Neofinder vs bridge plus#
It sounds to me like what you really want is Camera Raw/Photoshop, plus a DAM (there are several out there) to manage a catalog, or simply manage your files in Bridge without a catalog.