Could Bridge solve my challenge?

Report · Jul 01, 2018

I"m a Windows 10 user and I have Photoshop Elements 2018. My wife is a Mac user, and doesn't yet have any Adobe products. We already have external hard drives, and a cloud back up service which we share.

I understand that Photoshop Elements will not allow more than one user to access its database / catalog. I'm trying to find a solution that would allow us to both work on our photos, store them on a common folder structure, with common tags. If my wife bought Photoshop Elements for Mac, would Bridge help us do this? If not is there ANY (affordable for individuals!) Adobe product that will let us achieve this? Since other products (e.g. Google Photos) don't have either a folder structure, nor a way of tagging, I'm sure those wouldn't be a solution.

If Bridge and/or Adobe won't work, does any ready know of a product that might work?

Thanks

Report · Jul 01, 2018

Your wife could download and use Bridge for free using the CC App (without Camera Raw support) and use standard metadata for “tagging” files. Not sure how Elements would read the files (in theory it should not be a problem). I’m also not sure if Elements is writing the metadata directly to the files or only to the catalogue. Easy enough to test for yourselves.