Comments on: Use Your iPhoto Library In Adobe Bridge

By: Bina

Bina — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:15:49 +0000

Hi Mason,

love this site . Thank you for all your help . I have a question regarding editing in bridge . How come my edited pictures go back to their original format if I post them on Facebook or email them ? How do i over come this ?

Many thanks

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:38:31 +0000

You’re welcome! I’m glad you found my tutorial helpful!

By: MBrown

MBrown — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:15:43 +0000

Thank you so much for this info. I didn’t expect it to work but it did. I am using iPhoto ’11 and it still worked perfectly. I could not open my photos from Bridge after upgrading to iPhoto ’11 but now I can. Thank you!

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:29:10 +0000

Jeff, I’m not sure the best way to go about this…. Ideally, you would have one photo editor for all of your needs. Can you make a dedicated folder in Finder for the pictures on iCloud and have Bridge “receive” that?

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:26:57 +0000

Lisa, if you want full customization, I would recommend SlideShowPro:
http://slideshowpro.net/

Thanks,
Mason

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:10:09 +0000

Mason,
Do you use Bridge to create photo galleries? I’ve just updated to CS5 and found that Photoshop no longer has its easy web gallery function. The Bridge web galleries are very slick, however, a few key things seem missing; eg. doesn’t seem to be a way to add individual captions for each image. The “airtight” templates allow that but only by modifying the “metadata”, and they don’t seem to allow you to put your name/logo, navigation etc. or other identifying header.

The other issue is that because flash is not always available on ipads and phones, these web galleries won’t always work. Any suggestion for a photo gallery plugin or something else that will solve these issues?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:38:15 +0000

Mason:

Great site. I, too, am facing the problem with the Lion version of iPhoto missing the alias option on the folders within the iPhoto library. I’d use Bridge exclusively on the Mac, but I want to utilize the PhotoStream feature of iCloud for the photos I take with my iPhone. It looks like you need to use iPhoto on the Mac side to “receive” the stream .. I don’t think Bridge can access them directly.

Any ideas on workflow in this situation?

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:47:58 +0000

Janessa,

I would suggest using one photo editing program at this point. Unfortunately, Apple has made it more difficult to use iPhoto with another program such as Adobe Bridge. For this reason, I would recommend going with a professional photo editor such as Lightroom, which I’ve found to be a great investment, especially since you’ll be taking lots of pictures with your new DSLR!

Best,
Mason

By: Janessa

Janessa — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:51:28 +0000

Mason,

Thanks so much for you help with this confusing problem! I’m new to Mac and finally bought a nice DSLR and was using iPhoto. Now I think I need to use something a bit more complex. But I had the same problem as Paul. Since I’m using Lion and iPhoto is improved, there’s not the option to make an alias. What should we do?

Thanks!
Janessa

By: Mason Sklut

Mason Sklut — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:24:08 +0000

Paul,

Yes you’re correct. The new version of iPhoto is different than the one I was using in my tutorial. That’s why Originals and Modified are now renamed Previews and Masters.

In Step 6, making an alias would be preferable over duplicating the folders. You’ll waste hard drive space if you duplicate unnecessarily.