Upgrading from PSE to Bridge

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July 17, 2021
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I have used many versions of PSE over the years but now I only use it as a DAM. Backing up my 15,000 images takes more than 24 hours and I really don't think I can tolerate that for much longer. I have installed Bridge and Creative Cloud seems to have come along with it. My problem is that I cannot find how to load my PSE catalog into Bridge. I can import my photos from their folders but not the catalog with all its formatting. Is there any way of doing this, please?

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Jeff Arola

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Bridge is not a DAM like the Organizer. In other words Bridge is much like Windows File Explorer or Mac finder.

Adobe Lightroom Classic (subscription software) is a DAM with camera raw capabilities and can import Organizer catalogs.

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/lightroom-classic/help/import-photos-various-sources.html

jbm007

Community Expert

Not sure you are going to want to hear this.

Bridge only imports formatttimng information from PS through ACR

pale_loitererAuthor

Known Participant

Yes, that is extremely disappointing. I though Adobe made Bridge free to
all comers in order to encourage people to use Photoshop, Lightroom et al.

It won't encourage me it they make it impossible for me to use it.

Imagine importing 14,000 images into Bridge and then having to re-tag
them and recreate albums etc. It would take a month of Sundays. No,
longer than that. Years of work would have to be repeated.

I feel like a prisoner in PSE and actively discouraged to use any
further Adobe product but I thank you for taking the trouble to put me
right.

Alan Hodges

gary_sc

Community Expert

Bridge is NOT a DAM, it's a photo viewer with more features. If you want a DAM to move away from PSE, than you should consider Lightroom Classic.

The advantage of Bridge is that there IS no folder structure to be conserned about. You take a folder open it in Bridge, and see what's there. If you're in folder "A," and you want to get to folder "M," you look up where folder "M" is on your hard drive and open that in Bridge. Again, Bridge is not a DAM.

LRC is and is substantially better than PSE. AND as mentioned by Jeff Arola, there is a direct route from one to the other.

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