For one, you can add Music (and that’s just the start).

Lightroom’s Slideshow Module, while not perfect, creates slideshows way beyond what the Bridge can do.

(Note: In the Public Beta of Lightroom 2.0, the Develop Module leap frogs Camera Raw even more, but that’s a different topic.

Plus, in Lightroom there are all sorts of other advantages (like White Balance previews for one) that just aren’t available in Camera Raw. The Develop Module is actually just Camera Raw on a darker gray background, but in Lightroom there are some features (including the Targeted Adjustment Tool) that just aren’t in Camera Raw in Photoshop CS3 or the Bridge.

To me, there’s no comparison, and the features, workflow, and whole process of organizing, sorting, and managing your photos is much easier, more efficient, and fun in Lightroom. The Library Module in Lightroom, absolutely blows away the Bridge.It’s just my opinion (as is this entire Q&A), but here’s how I feel they stack up: How do these stack up against the same features in Photoshop?Ī. For photographers, Lightroom replaces the Bridge, Camera Raw, and does a whole lot more, because it’s a whole workflow tool (which is its strength-it’s for managing ALL your photos thousands of them, and processing new photos in the quickest, most efficient manner yet), using five separate modules (The Library, The Develop Module, The Slideshow Module, The Web Module, and the Print Module). So Lightroom is better than the Bridge?Ī. So, the Bridge can be processing photos, and then I can do something completely different in Photoshop?Ī. You’d want to use it to process a bunch of raw photos in the background, which frees up Photoshop CS3 for other tasks. So why would anyone want to use the Camera Raw in Bridge rather than the one in Photoshop CS3?Ī. Well, if you want to split hairs, technically Lightroom has one extra tool (The Targeted Adjustment Tool), buried down in two of the panels, but other than that, they’re exactly the same. Camera Raw has a light gray background, and Lightroom’s Develop Module has a dark gray background.Ī. All three have the same sliders, in the exact same order, they have the same tools, etc.Ī. Camera Raw in Photoshop CS3, Camera Raw in The Adobe Bridge, and the Develop Module of Lightroom 1.4 are all the same. After reading it, I realized that he probably isn’t alone, so I thought I’d try and unconfusify him (and anybody else) here with a quick Q&A:Ī. With 80 sessions at Photoshop World, and 41 instructors, as you might imagine there are a lot of classes that include, or are based on, either Camera Raw, The Bridge, Lightroom, or all three, which is what I think is behind this attendee’s comment. “One says Bridge One says Camera Raw One says Lightroom-I’m confused!” I was really gratified to see that the class really struck a chord with attendees (so much so, that I’ll be teaching it again in Las Vegas at Photoshop World this September), but I saw an evaluation that really stood out to me, which read: Yesterday I was going through the session evaluations from my Photoshop World “Photoshop Seven-Point System” class (I take these evaluations very seriously, and I read every single evaluation from every class I teach).

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