Images not importing properly from Bridge

[André Øvland]

After having sorted all my images by giving them a star rating and then sorting them by said rating, I assumed it was as easy as selecting them and clicking "open" and then I could jump straight into editing, but for some reason that doesn't work. When I click open, Lightroom opens and finds the correct folder but never seems to actually select the images I sent from Bridge. This is rather annoying since I can't go around selecting each image individually when there's hundreds, and some look rather similar, so I've started moving all desired images to a seperate folder and then opening and importing from there which works fine but I'd rather have my apps work cohesively. Either this is a bug or some setting that for some reason isn't on.

Per the community guidelines or whatever I'm providing some additional info here:
1. LrC is on v12.5 and Bridge is on v14.0.0

2. Windows 11 Home | 10.0.22621

3. Open Bridge -> select images -> click open (if LrC is set as default) -> LrC open the correct folder but nothing more.

4. Expected result was that it would select the images I had already selected in Bridge and I could click import and be done.

[JohanElzenga]

I'm not sure if this should work, but why don't you simply import the images in Lightroom, do your rating there, and -if necessary- delete again what you don't want? No need to use Bridge at all...

[André Øvland]

I'm sure this would work great but I'd really like for all my apps to work together as best they can. I don't mind going through an extra app if everything works seamlessly together like I hoped the Adobe ecosystem would. I'm rather new to the CC world of Adobe as I grew up using CS Photoshop and CS Lightroom from totally different versions and was used to them being very isolated and not working together very well, so now I'm just trying to ease myself into this hyper connected ecosystem Adobe's trying to make so I can maximise my productivity in the future once I'm done with my education and eventually go into work.

[GoldingD]

Why are you bothering with Bridge?

And apparently, this is a method to do what you want:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQiF8UVHkNs

also, somewhat related, see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnXVd4hDffs

[Conrad_C]

Part of what some might see as odd here is that typically, all of that work is done in either Bridge or Lightroom Classic. It’s much less common to edit files in both, although it can work. For example, most people do the work in one of these two ways:

Adobe Bridge

1. In Bridge window, cull, organize, rate.

2. Select one or more images, and choose File > Open in Camera Raw.

3. In Camera Raw (which is basically the same as the Lightroom Classic develop module), edit images as needed.

4. When done, exit Camera Raw to apply the edits and return to Bridge.

Adobe Lightroom Classic

1. In Library module, cull, organize, rate.

2. Switch to Develop module.

3. Edit images as needed.

4. When done, if you want, switch to any other module, like going back to the Library module.

The smoothest way to work is stick to one workflow or the other.

Now, you want to mix the workflows. That’s possible, but they’re not really set up to do it easily. It does work fine on my Mac…I tried your steps and had no problem: Whether I use the File > Open With menu in Bridge, or drag images from Bridge and drop them in Lightroom Classic, Lightroom Classic opens the Import button with exactly the images I selected. But I have heard that some forms of inter-application transfer don’t work as well in Windows. If so, I don’t know if the issue is Windows or Adobe.

If you do want to use Bridge and Lightroom Classic together, you can, but there are other things you’ll have to think about, such as getting metadata transferred both ways. Bridge, being a file browser, always reads and writes metadata to files, or their metadata sidecar files, as you edit. But Lightroom Classic, being catalog-based, defaults to reading and writing the metadata to its catalog, not to files or sidecars. So you could make a lot of edits in Lightroom Classic and not see them in Bridge unless you know what additional steps to take. So, to keep things a lot simpler…

Do everything in Bridge if you want to get some edits done fast without having to catalog the images first (in Lightroom Classic).

Do everything in Lightroom Classic if you want to take advantage of the additional catalog-based features that it has over Bridge.