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03/12/2010 06:51:02 AM · #1 |
I've switched from elements to cs4, and thus I've switched from organizer to bridge.
When I viewed my photos in organizer, it showed me all photos at the same time, so I was scrolling through years of photos. When I would search by keywords, the search was pretty much immediate.
Now that I'm in bridge, I have to click on individual folders to see the contents. My photos are all in separate folders listed by day. When I do a search by keyword, I have to tell it to look "my pictures" folder to search everything, and the search can take up to 5-10 minutes.
Is there something I'm missing? I can't seem to ever find anything anymore unless I know approximately when I took the picture. How can I just view all pictures in Bridge, but still keep them in their individual folders? How can I do a faster search?
Thanks
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03/12/2010 07:13:31 AM · #2 |
Don't sort your files in folders just by date, but also by content. When I downlad images from the camera, I create a new folder, for example "2010-03-11-branch", which is inside the "floral" folder, which is inside the "Pictures" folder.
You can create the folders before downloading with the Canon EOS Utility. |
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03/12/2010 07:58:01 AM · #3 |
I usually have such a mixed bag on a card, that it's easier just to leave by date. What I was really hoping for was a view where I could see all the pictures, regardless of whether they were in separate folders. I got used to that in organizer, so I could just scan through all the pictures without having to know where to look, yet I liked the fact that they still were in separate folders for copying, backup, etc. Is there anyway to get that type of view?
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03/12/2010 09:53:17 AM · #4 |
Hi Wendy! Congrats on the upgrade. I did it about 6 months ago and it's been a great decision... although I agree a few things are hard to get used to.
My folders are all by month and it would definitely be a pain to find a picture if you couldn't remember what month it was. What you do to avoid this headache is to set up "smart collections". You can have the smart collections search on any drive (and in subfolders) for any criteria you want, including keywords. I have a collection for all of my 5 star pictures, one for all of my photowalk pictures, my bird pictures & my family pictures (these are filtered by keyword). You can even create collections by lens type, camera, shutter speed... you name it. :o) The best part is the smart collections automatically update. The issue I had (which I finally figured out) is that if photos are on an external harddrive you have to make sure the cache file is also on the external drive (or something like that... all I know is it works now).
I have been reading Scott Kelby's Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers and the sections on Bridge & RAW are super informative, and I thought I had a pretty good feel for them both.
Message edited by author 2010-03-12 09:55:18. |
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03/12/2010 10:32:38 AM · #5 |
| People really use keywords? (I'm just jealous - I don't and it is a pain to try to find things. But then I don't really need them for anything, just would be nice, you know? Perhaps I should keyword...) |
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