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Cloud Based Bridge

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April 4, 2018
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The new Photoshop CC (cloud based) version will only accept images that are on the cloud. At least that's how I understand it. My question is, will Bridge still be able to browse my drive? Will I be able to select the images in ACR, then send the ones I want to work on in PS CC to the cloud, saving or exporting them and then send other pics. Or will I have to send all my pics to the cloud. I have over 4T of pics. No way am I buying storage for 4T.

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D Fosse

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once a month it will connect to the cloud and then save them to the cloud. I hope I got this right?

No, actually you didn't. Once a month the application calls home to check that your subscription is in order and paid. That's all the online activity that happens. No syncing files to "the cloud" happens unless you specifically do so yourself.

I've said it before: the "Creative Cloud" name is about the worst possible they could have picked. It does nothing but cause misunderstandings. I suspect "the cloud" was just the buzzword of the day and so they went with it.

Anyone who does serious image editing knows that internet bandwidth will never catch up with file sizes, it never has and likely never will. For that to happen, there would have to be an earth-shattering technological revolution. That may happen one day, but it's not on the horizon now.

rob day

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Anyone who does serious image editing knows that internet bandwidth will never catch up with file sizes, it never has and likely never will. For that to happen, there would have to be an earth-shattering technological revolution. That may happen one day, but it's not on the horizon now.

But just to clarify you never save directly to the cloud, it's always a sync after the local save so the internet connection speed really isn't an issue. The save time to the Creative Cloud Files folder is no different than a save to any other folder on the startup disk.

Functionally it's the same as Drobox—its uses would be an effortless, incremental, off site backup of valuable files; or remote group collaborations where a shared creative cloud folder gets sync'd to multiple users. The idea is file security and remote sharing and not the end of local storage.

D Fosse

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OK, but a 4TB archive as the OP has - or 12TB as I have? That's bandwidth too

rob day

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Or will I have to send all my pics to the cloud. I have over 4T of pics. No way am I buying storage for 4T.

Also, your CC subscription installs a folder in your user account that sync's to the Adobe cloud server. It works pretty much the same way as DropBox. In order to take advantage of the Adobe cloud storage and sync'ing you have to save files into that folder. It's up to you whether you use it or not.

So you could store your RAW photo library anywhere on your local network and then save images that you have color corrected and spent time on inside your Creative Cloud Files folder. You would then have an off site backup of your most valuable files.

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George LibermanAuthor

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So if I understand you correctly, Bridge will search and view my local

drive and then open my files in ACR, all locally. Then I can open some

images in Photoshop CC and it will store them locally, and once a month it

will connect to the cloud and then save them to the cloud. I hope I got

this right?

Regards

George Liberman

george1397@gmail.com

www.georgelibermanphotos.com

rob day

Community Expert

So if I understand you correctly, Bridge will search and view my local
drive and then open my files in ACR, all locally. Then I can open some
images in Photoshop CC and it will store them locally, and once a month it
will connect to the cloud and then save them to the cloud.

Yes, except if you have an always on internet connection the sync'ing happens as you save and not just once a month.

All of the apps and updates install locally same as they did with the CS suite, except via a download rather than a DVD. Your files are always saved locally.

The Dropbox like cloud storage and syncing is and added feature. There are also collaboration features and there is a history feature, so if you wanted to step back to a file's earlier version you can do that from your web account.

macpawel

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Bridge CC And Photoshop CC are normal - "classic" applications with additional cloud connection.

You can work on your machine without Internet Connection (about one month to check your subscription) you can use files from your disks, Of course Photoshop CC And Bridge CC allow you to work with classic graphic files (jpg, tif, psd, png, gif) and Raw for Camera Raw. Don't warry Crative Cloud are normal applications only with additional cloud based features

pawel

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George LibermanAuthor

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Thank you.

Regards

George Liberman

george1397@gmail.com

www.georgelibermanphotos.com

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