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View Poll Results: If you use CS2, do you also use Bridge? | |
Always
|    | 57 | 28.93% | |
Regularly
|    | 41 | 20.81% | |
Sometimes
|    | 51 | 25.89% | |
Never
|    | 48 | 24.37% | 
11-27-2005, 03:37 PM
|  | Janitor | | Join Date: Aug 2001
Posts: 3,870
| | | CS2 and Bridge
If you are using Photoshop CS2, do you also use Bridge? Why/why not? |
11-27-2005, 06:19 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Posts: 138
| | I have found Bridge to be a resource hog - slow, clunky and buggy. It's disappointing how much memory it eats up, which I'd rather have available for image editing, so I usually avoid it. It's certainly not compelling enough to go out and buy another gig of RAM. Adobe: gimme back the good ol' file browser, please! 
- Kurt
Last edited by kschulz : 11-27-2005 at 06:29 PM.
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11-28-2005, 03:30 AM
|  | Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Goiânia, Brazil
Posts: 1,536
| | | Like Kurt said.... (exactly!)
I just use File>Open and select the miniature view - never had much need for anything else.
Rô |
11-28-2005, 05:39 AM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Cambridge, Ontario
Posts: 112
| | | Ditto. Bloatware! |
11-28-2005, 07:30 AM
| | Senior Member Patron | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Mid-South
Posts: 1,606
| | | I use Bridge but agree that it is a huge memory hog. It is also slow and it minimizes after opening each picture. The only thing I really like about it is being able to view a slideshow of all pictures. Other than that one thing, I much preferred the CS1 browser.
Janet |
11-28-2005, 07:37 AM
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Posts: 730
| | what is bridge? I havent played with it yet and I'm at work right now and only have photoshop 7  |
11-28-2005, 07:56 AM
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11-29-2005, 08:32 AM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Gatineau, QC Canada
Posts: 315
| | | I use the thumbnails view in Windows Explorer. That's all the functionality I need usually. When I want more, I use IrfanView Thumbnails or XnView. Besides, Bridge is slow as molasses in winter.
Pierre |
11-29-2005, 09:27 AM
|  | Senior Member Patron | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Los Angeles area
Posts: 353
| | | Ditto on it being a memory hog...I have a lot of memory and it is still slow and frustrating.
Cathy |
11-29-2005, 10:33 AM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Gatineau, Québec
Posts: 91
| | | That piece of software is such a hog on ressources that I simply do not use it. I greatly preferred the File Browser that shipped with Photoshop CS. |
11-29-2005, 11:39 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Plymouth, Ma
Posts: 5
| |  I like it.
I use the bridge all the time. From an image perspective I use it for sorting, viewing, moving etc. From a photography perspective I use it for processing my raw files, batch processing jpegs for to correct my lighting mistakes, contact sheets and so on. On some occasions I will process my pictures through the bridge without needing Photoshop at all (meaning I had a really good day with my exposure setting..haha).
I have a gig of ram at work and 512mb at home, I dont seem to have any resource problems. The combination of Photoshop and the bridge will beat on my machine at home a little, so I close what I am not using. At work they run all day without any problems.
Last edited by bill791 : 11-29-2005 at 12:11 PM.
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11-29-2005, 12:33 PM
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| | Hi there, Bill. Welcome to RetouchPRO 
Seems like a pattern is emerging here..... : 1GB+ RAM - use bridge by all means;
: 512MB - use, but take care;
: 256MB - don't even think about it. That about right?
Rô |
11-29-2005, 12:58 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Plymouth, Ma
Posts: 5
| | | Hi and thanks. Yes that seems to sum it up, oh I do use a seperate hd for my scratch disk on both machines and it does have a positive impact. I am not running history and have 55% of my memory allocated to Photoshop. |
11-29-2005, 07:21 PM
| | Senior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Posts: 138
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Originally Posted by byRo Seems like a pattern is emerging here..... : 1GB+ RAM - use bridge by all means;
: 512MB - use, but take care;
: 256MB - don't even think about it. That about right? | I have 1GB of RAM too. I don't use a separate scratch disk, dedicate 75% of memory to Photoshop, and have History States set to 40 (and, no, iTunes is not running  ). When I run Bridge with Photoshop, invariably rampant disk thrashing is the eventual result, bogging everything down. Bridge does seem to run fine by itself in 1GB, although it still seems to take a long time to start up.
: > 1GB RAM - go for it;
: 1GB RAM - not while doing serious image editing;
: 512MB - hmmm, maybe by itself;
: 256MB - don't even think about it.
Any closer?
- Kurt |
11-29-2005, 10:51 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: May 2004
Posts: 325
| | | CS2 is the biggest pile of crap to ever come out of adobes lil elves workshop.
I returned mine and went back to cs....it crashed all the time (mac and PC)...color setting were never as acurate, and all the "new" features that they added were a waste of money. Focus on stability within your own app and stop adding things that people never use. | 
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