Thursday, April 11, 2013

Bridge vs. Lightroom

After reading those articles and watching the video I feel like I have a much better understanding of the differences and similarities between Lightroom and Bridge.
First off, Bridge does not support the database that Lightroom does, so I would imagine Bridge would be more effective if I was working on my main desktop computer at home that housed the majority of the data that I would use. Bridge is a file browser and does not keep the information "internally" through databases like Lightroom does. So it would make sense to me that Bridge would work better when you have your work centralized on a main computer.
Lightroom, however, does allow me to use external hard drives and supports the ability to transport and contain the information of my data in a way that would allow me to be able to work on it more flexibly.I would be able to plug in my external onto, say, my laptop and be able to import those images to then be later used, independently from the hard drive, later on. This is an advantage for when I am at school or using lab computers and do not have access to all of my data in one central location.

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