How to Edit Photographs Using Adobe Bridge (VIDEO)

Adobe Bridge is an oft-ignored part of Photoshop, and it is able to way more than some photographers understand. Actually, it is doable to do a full photograph edit inside Bridge as you will see within the fast tutorial under.

We repeatedly flip to instructor Anthony Morganti for fast and useful recommendation on less-familiar image-processing strategies, and this eight-minute episode is for Photoshop customers who need to streamline their workflow and get nice outcomes.

For these unfamiliar with Adobe Bridge, it has just about the identical performance because the Library module in Lightroom Basic. As a result of Bridge is basically a Library module itself, it doesn’t have any enhancing functionality by itself. Thus, Morganti says, “To edit with Bridge you may have to use it along with Photoshop”—particularly Digital camera Uncooked which is a part of Photoshop.”

If in case you have plugins in your system, you need to use them with Bridge as properly. In only eight minutes Morganti walks you thru the step-by step course of for profiting from every thing bridge can do.

Morganti opens a seaside photograph in Bridge, utilizing the Filmstrip workspace he prefers. Like with Lightroom, the filmstrip seems on the backside. Step one with this strategy is to get the photograph into Digital camera Uncooked. There are a number of methods to do that and Morganti demonstrates the 2 he makes use of most. One is to right-click on the picture and choose Open in Digital camera Uncooked from the dropdown menu. The Second is to merely double-click on the picture within the filmstrip.

Now that you’ve every thing set, it is time to course of the picture, which is completed in a non-destructive method. Which means a re-do is at all times doable in the event you make a mistake or change your thoughts.

Morganti accomplishes the edit throughout the Develop module with out a variety of rationalization, as a result of his changes are fairly apparent by watching how he strikes numerous sliders within the panel. You may see him drop the Highlights, open up Shadows and Whites, and drop the blacks. He additionally bumps up Readability, Texture, and Vibrance.

As a result of the picture seems a bit too cool, Morganti turns to the Curves device to add a little bit of yellow to the blue Curve. A number of extra easy tweaks and the transformation is full utilizing a simple approach that you could be need to attempt your self.

After watching the video pay a visit to Morganti’s YouTube channel for extra simple enhancing recommendation.

And take a look at an earlier tutorial we posted from one other processing skilled, explaining how to use what he says is “the greatest new Photoshop device” (and it isn’t Generative Fill).