I just upgraded to CS2 from PS7, and have this new-fangled Bridge thing...I know a lot of people are switching over to LR, but I'm curious if someone can tell me/show me how you use(d) Bridge in your workflow. Because there is so much buzz around LR, a lot of what I am finding is comparisons...feel free to tell me why you use one or the other, but I won't be getting LR for awhile...

DJ did a little video a while back kind of showing the basics w/ bridge and utilizing the preset capability of Bridge.

Here's the link

I'm almost totally using Lightroom now, but I still have a special place in my heart for Bridge. My Bridge workflow is:

1. Get all the images into one folder, open it up in Bridge
2. As Bridge loads and sorts all the images, I go through and cull the images I know for sure I don't want (bad exposure, expressions, etc)
3. Apply a default setting to all the images (Auto everything, some vignette, minor curve action)
4. Go through and run presets on groups of images

It's not that different from how I use Lightroom, it's just in Lightroom the presets you can do are much more powerful and useful. You'll be fine with Bridge, don't feel that you NEED to get Lightroom.

You can grab DJ's Brilliant Presets (for Bridge and Lightroom) but if you've been around Photoshop for a while, you should have no problem creating your own presets. The Brilliant Presets are good, but you can definitely come up with great ones on your own.

Thank you

Then, do you use Image Processor to export all those photos as tiffs and jpegs?