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gwany1999

gwany1999

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I have lightroom with Adobe Creative Cloud...does it function similar? Anyone use lightroom? how is it?
 
Yes, both ACDSee Pro and Lightroom will both allow you to edit your photos and let you categorize and keyword them. Lots of people use one or both.
 
I use Lightroom but I've never used ACDSee so I wouldn't be able to compare them. I love it, though.
 
Similar in some functions, but LR doesn't do the keyword organization as well as ACDSee. I never really used ACDSee for editing, only organizational purposes. I compare ACDSee more closely with Bridge than LR.
 
I use Lightroom strictly for photos and editing. I use Bridge to organize my scrap supplies, it lets you sort and keyword etc.
 
Bridge...I have that with Creative Cloud is it easy to use?
 
It's really easy and I did like it but I had to stop using it because it was excruciatingly slow. I use it to batch rename files but that's about it anymore. I tried really hard to like it, but the amount of time it took to do even simple searches was absolutely ridiculous.

One other thing I didn't like about Bridge was it was a pain to change a keyword. e.g. when Michelle Godin became Quirky Heart, in Lightroom, I could just go to my list of keywords and change it. In Bridge, I would have had to find all the files themselves and delete the "Michelle Godin" keyword and add a new "Quirky Heart" keyword to those files.
 
I use LR for all my photos, both organizing and processing. I use Bridge for organizing my scrap supplies. I can have multiple kits open at once in different windows through Bridge.

Neither program is slow if you have enough memory, but you need at a minimum 8GB to run them, and more is better. I run both programs along with CS5 simultaneously all day long with no issues.
 
I have 8GB RAM. Bridge is always going to be slower than Lightroom because Lightroom is a database is Bridge is not. The bigger your stash is, the slower Bridge will be, because of how Bridge works. RAM doesn't matter for that. It also matters where the files are. My Lightroom catalog is on an internal, solid-state drive, which is really fast. My stash is on an external USB drive which is not fast, but that matters a lot less for Lightroom than it does for Bridge, since LR can get to the catalog fast.
 
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