How to EDIT and ORGANIZE photos FAST (Adobe Bridge & Lightroom)
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- Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2021
- In this video, I go over my entire process for sifting through a full SD card, pulling them into lightroom, editing, and organizing them. Finally, delivering them to your clients!
0:30 - Intro
1:00 - Camera Settings
2:55 - Adobe Bridge
4:11 - Folder Organization
7:42 - Filtering / Culling through photos
9:16 - Lightroom
12:00 - Delivering photos to clients
13:17 - Airdrop
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Super helpful video! Thanks man! Keep it up!
Thank you so much! I’m glad you liked it.
Only 8.5 minutes in and you've helped me more than any Bridge tutorial so far. Thank you for taking the time to share this with us.
I am so happy that it was helpful! Thank you so much.
Great video! So helpful and clear for us trying to step up our photography game. Thanks for taking the time to make this, know it’s appreciated!
Thank you so much. This means the world to me.
Thanks for the video. As a beginner it is great that you started at the beginning, i.e. starting with the SD card. So many videos start with the photos already added in some fashion. The full workflow, and I mean full, is great. 👍🏻
That was absolutely incredible and super helpful. So clear. Thank you for sharing this!!!!! You're awesome.
Thank you so much for the kind comment. I’m so happy you found my video.
Thanks a lot, man! been doing photography for some years and never used bridge, always doing the viewfinder or dumping everything into lightroom, it was a hustle and I hated selecting photos. Thanks for sharing your workflow bro!
I’m so happy that it was helpful. Part 2 coming soon.
Super helpful! As I am taking more photos, organization is becoming a hassle. Realized I had Bridge for months and never understood to use it until now
Thank you very much, full of details and really really helpful. Cheers!🙏😃
Thank you have been so confused with workflow on the computer, definitely some useful tips there that I can start to implement
What an iconic instructional video. This man can do it all. 👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you so much! 🥺
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for the super helpful video 👏🏽
Glad it was helpful! That makes me so happy to hear!
I’m struggling with having files all over the places and it got worst when I come up with an idea of dumping files in a folder named unorganized files thinking that I’ll take my time to sort it out later 😒 now I’ve 5 TB of it . Thank you Mikal this is super helpful going in 2022 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
nice one! love the Move from SD card and start clean approach
It’s very satisfying
thank you, I hqve ordered the new z9 and have known for a while I needed to upgrade my workflow. I should have been using Bridge for years. Its mega important now that I get on this, I will be going over your tutorial again step by step.
Amazing! I’m happy you found it helpful. I’m not saying my way is perfect but I hope this gave you some ideas! Let me know if there’s other ways I can be helpful.
you already know what im going to say.....
WE LOVE TO SEE IT
Nah this really saved me HOURS. Brilliant. Thank you so much
That makes me so happy to hear!
Very helpfull video. Thanks! As a matter precaution, I never move or delete photo's from an SD Card, but always format the card in my R6 once I have copied what I need onto the Mac. That way, I have to think carefully about deleting and therefore not delete something accidently. Formatting the second card is an added safety net. Lastly, formatting the card in the R6 prepares it freshly, specifically for the R6. Think about it - that's something that I was taught at a photography course.
Yo!!! I’m so glad you’re still working and looking healthy. Keep stoking your fire! I hope God blesses you, fellow human ;)
Thank you so much, friend
Thanks man I really needed this
That makes me so happy to hear!
Great tutorial. I started researching Photo Mechanic for speedy culling, but realized I already have access to Bridge through Creative Cloud! Re: memory cards. I’ve never had this actually happen, but I learned from some seasoned photogs early in my career to always format a memory card before every shoot to keep it from ever getting corrupted.
Most pros use PM because it renders RAW thumbnails at blazing speed. There are some PM vs Bridge comparisons out there, but for most who aren't dumping 600+ RAW shots per day, Bridge suffices.
Very helpful! Thanks so much!
I’m so happy it was helpful ❤️
Brilliant. This was very helpful. I may not do it exactly as you did, but I am more aware of what I can do. Thank you for this.
Wow thank you so much. I am pretty new to making videos. So, you just made my day. 🥺
@@kelaidiscope Consider it reciprocation for making my day easier also.
After losing 3 clients photos. i have been searching for a nice and simple way to work and hopefully not lose any more thank you
I’m so incredibly happy that this was helpful to you.
I would say to be extra careful. Once you have your final folder with your RAW and edited photos inside. Drop that into Dropbox or some other cloud service as a backup.
Very helpful. Thank you!
I’m happy it helped!
So helpful. Thank you.
I love hearing that. Thank you for commenting.
Super helpful brother
Just finished my first commercial wedding shoot yesterday and was looking for guidance on the same thank you so much
I’m so happy this helped! Thank you for your comment.
Thanks for the video! It's always helpful to see others workflow. Have you ever just edited through Bridge which accesses Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) tools like LR? We've been exploring this at work for the last year and I have yet to run into any draw backs. I see LR as a library tool that uses ACR and we don't want the library features anyway. You can flip the preference in Bridge to open ACR when you double click RAW photos. You can open multiple at the same time. It typically creates a XMP sidecar file which holds the adjustments.
Personally, I would still recommend Copy to and not Move to simply to have a safety net if something happens during the transfer, especially for larger transfers.
Do you have a backup option for cloud too? Interesting to see what others use, as I've been in situations where hard drive photos have been lost, so now I (of course, naively!) copy to multiple locations, and a cloud (some which allow sharing options to socials so you're not clogging your phone of storage too!)
Like to see more on Adobe Bridge. Aiming to incorporate it more into my workflow.
I was looking into Photo Mechanic to quickly cull photos but Adobe Bridge is FREE and can see Raw files and the previews are still pretty quick to load 👍👍
I can definitely do more on Adobe Bridge!
Is Bridge as fast as Photo Mechanic? Are you able to Caption images and update the Metadata in Bridge as you can in Photo Mechanic? I can do it in Lightroom Classic but again we are looking for ways increase the speed of the workflow
I have actually not used photo mechanic. I don’t know about captions for certain. It it seems like things you’d be able to do in adobe bridge.
I’ll create a photo mechanic vs adobe bridge video soon.
@@kelaidiscope photo mechanic vs adobe bridge video - That's what I was looking for when I found your video. Most of the comparisons I'm finding are Lightroom vs Photo mechanic.
Great Video, but I have a question. Is it possible to customize shortcuts in adobe bridge? Like for example, use ctrl+key, shift+key or alt+key to automatically move the file i'm previewing to a certain folder without having to drag it manually?
I’m not sure but that sounds incredible. I’ll look Into it.
Very informative.
Thank you! Tough balance between informative and entertaining. Getting to the point vs. being thorough.
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A really good and helpful video as I have been using Photoshop and Lightroom for so many years and never considered using Bridge as I was looking at other options, do you have any tips for adding XMP data using Bridge, ie copywrite info, event info? Many thanks, John
I am actually pretty unfamiliar with the XMP files and copyright info but I am a quick learner! I will look into it
This was a very nice workflow and great explanation.Thank you for shearing. I like to se different kind of workflows.I just wonder when you are in bridge and export to Lightroom. Why you not use Camera raw instead which are there right in Bridge. Maybe you have a good reason for doing that?
Thank you so much for watching! I am happy you enjoyed it.
I have presets that I use and I learned Lightroom before camera raw. So it’s just a familiarity thing.
Im sure there are other differences but those are mine.
Thank you
Thank you for watching!
Would there be a reason to have a folder for the ones you picked to edit? Trying to think ahead as much as I can for the future if I need to go back and access something. Thoughts? Also do you go back and delete any? Your tutorial was very helpful! Thank you =)
So I’m some cases, I do have a folder called “selected” within the RAW Photos folder.
It’s case by case for me, some shoots I want all the RAWS, other shoots I take my selected, edit them, deliver them, and delete the remaining RAWS that weren’t 5⭐️
Happy to hear you enjoyed it thank you for watching!
Hey Mikal
Do you have a prest pack to recommend?
Im looking for quit a long time but cant find the perfect one.
Google “G Presets” I really like those ones.
Sir, when you export your photos to the folder on your External HD will Lightroom find those photos if I want to re-visit them for future editing.
Yes, you can just search for them on the hard drive.
Even just use the finder to locate the photos you want, click and drag and pull them into the Lightroom icon
Very helpful. I have a mountain of pics to cull and organize. Do you tag/keyword at all to make them more searchable?
I’ve not used tags or keywords because I keep my folders and collections pretty organized.
I would consider adding tagging to my workflow tho. I also would like to see if Bridge has an AI search-ability like the iPhone photos app has
I’m so happy you found this helpful. Means the world to me.
@@kelaidiscope Yes sir. Always try to leave a like and comment when I find something valuable like this. All my pics are personal. Ones from the DSLR are well organized. Dumps from iPhones over the years...not so much. Can't easily find pics from travel vs pics of the dog. But after this vid, I now have a plan. File structure in order and will be Bridging over the coming weeks. Deciding what to remove or actually delete may be the hardest part.
la cartella desktop è bloccata (lucchetto) su Bridge 2023. come diavolo si sblocca?
Question: Is Camera Raw not as good as Lightroom? My point is that lightroom copies all files, but with camera raw I can directly acess them. Is there something I missed or why is everybody using lightroom?
Thank you :)
I use Lightroom because of the masking capabilities mostly. I also have some presets that I use.
Like the AI subject masking and sky masking in Lightroom is unbelievable.
Tho I have very little experience with camera RAW. It’s worth looking Into, you’re not the first to bring it up.
Yo bro, really like your video. Instead of saying "so" take a pause and start over or just try to cut it. Keep it up man!!!!!!!
Thank you.
I’ll keep that in mind.
The one thing that Lr and LrC have when it comes to culling the for some unfathomable reason Adobe have not put into Br is auto-advance. holding shown [Shift] in Lr or have [CAPS LOCK] on in LrC means using the flag and reject shortcuts for culling is much slicker. It 2024 now Adobe, come on!!
I also take your point about LrC catalogues taking up storage, but I've been shooting and using LrC for 15 years and it database and catalogue in invaluable.
Why would you use we transfer and not Lightroom’s inbuilt share folder/photo feature?
For delivering to clients? It’s the best and easiest way I know how to transfer large files.
They get a temporary link, that looks like an online gallery and can download what they want!
Is there a function in Lightroom for delivering photos to clients?
@@kelaidiscope There is an option to share the link of your album with the clients. Then clients can download the photos. I am unsure if it is of the same quality as WeTransfer.
@atulkhera2 I see! I also don’t use Lightroom to store or organize my photos. Everything gets offloaded onto a hard drive and a cloud storage solution and I regularly clear out Lightroom.
Just my workflow as of now.
When I hit "5" it searches for an image with "5" in the file name. Anyway around this?
So by default you have to push command + 5, but you can turn off the setting that requires cmd for shortcuts
When I go to drag selected photos into Lightroom Bridge still brings all the photos from card. Super annoying. Can't solve it as of now.
Are you on a mac or PC
@@kelaidiscope MAC?
my photography classes would have been a lot less stressful if I had been this organized :^)
Damn! That means a lot! I hope it was actually helpful :)
for a workflow like this, why woudlnt you just edit in Bridge using camera raw. The UI is slightly different but you have all the same tools as lightroom for editing
TBH I haven’t found a good answer to this question!
I started using Lightroom first, then learned bridge. So I think that’s why it carried over.
Haven’t used camera RAW much.
I keep running into the issue where I select the starred photos (like 70) and drag them to lightroom, but instead of just opening those to add to lightroom it opens all 800 or so files. Which would be very inefficient obviously. Been googling so much to try and find a solution😭
Are you making sure to use the Filter Panel? Or are you manually selecting the starred ones.
@@kelaidiscope omg I finally got it, thanks to another video actually. I had to scroll down and within all those 800 the right ones were selected, it just didn't show x selected anywhere. Thank you so much for your reply though!! And really great video! I discovered bridge about a month ago and you showed me a few more useful things!
When I press 5 to rate the photos I want it just bumps me back up to the top of the file without giving the rating. Any idea why?
Update; I have to press command first but I wish I didn’t.
Are you using the 5 at the top of they keyboard? Or a numeric keypad on the right side?
Not certain this would make a difference but some compact keyboards have buttons that serve a dual purpose. Maybe for some reason your “5” is an up arrow or top of page scenario?
Also, maybe something is different with your computer or version than what I’m using?
If you wanna DM me on insta (I don’t think YT has a DM feature) I’d be happy to look into it more.
You can turn that off! But I can’t remember which menu up at the top in the computer toolbar has it.
Check around in settings for “require command for shortcuts” or something similar
Thanks for this to tell you, it helped a lot. Did you know, that you can edit in Adobe Camera Raw right from adobe bridge? You do not even have to open Lightroom!!!
I did! However I have presets that I use and I rely on the masking and healing tools a lot in Lightroom. I think, and correct me if I’m wrong, but camera raw only has basic light and color correction tools.
@@kelaidiscope with camera raw you can do everything, what you can do in Lightroom, choose your presents, selective masking, etc.
Its even better, because you can mark a couple of pictures, then go to camera raw and edit them all at once. It’s much faster and more convenient. I love it.
I will certainly check it out! Thanks!
The part about rating photos 5 stars or 0 stars will be helpful.
Time saver for sure!
The problem with this method is you still have to import everything before you start to cull, ideally you want to cull before you import.
Import into where?
The idea here is to cull before you import. It also may be preferential to always keep ALL raws.
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helpful, but i can hear the saliva in your mouth from a kiloter away
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