When I open Bridge and view my raw files

[WildWolf]

It takes a second and bridge "processes" my files. Why does it do this? It makes them lighter. Is there a way to turn this off?

[photog_87]

ah yes
this problem

yep, what is happening is that Bridge is applying the "default camera RAW settings"

here is how to remedy that:

1 - open a RAW file in PSCS2
2 - in the RAW interface window that appears (that is the one with all the sliders and tings you can adjust) you need to untick all the "auto" boxes.
3 - now this needs to be saved as the default setting that bridge uses to handle your files
4 - you can do this thusly: after you have "un-auto-ed" everything, at the top of the adjustment window there is a little triangle in a cicle. Click it. Then sellect "make settings camera raw default", or something like thta. Now bridge is a hands off experience.

[In2Photos]

ah yes
this problem

yep, what is happening is that Bridge is applying the "default camera RAW settings"

here is how to remedy that:

1 - open a RAW file in PSCS2
2 - in the RAW interface window that appears (that is the one with all the sliders and tings you can adjust) you need to untick all the "auto" boxes.
3 - now this needs to be saved as the default setting that bridge uses to handle your files
4 - you can do this thusly: after you have "un-auto-ed" everything, at the top of the adjustment window there is a little triangle in a cicle. Click it. Then sellect "make settings camera raw default", or something like thta. Now bridge is a hands off experience.

Mine is turned off and still takes a second, although in larger folders even longer, to process them. It might be because the option to sharpen on mine is for preview only. Perhaps if that were off it wouldn't do that. I also think that Bridge is building the cache so it still might take a little time.

[rfreschner]

When you open a folder in Bridge, the first pass shows the previews from your embedded JPEGs. The second pass creates the high quality preview and takes quite a bit longer.

[photog_87]

Actually i have found that bridge HATES to process big tifs or jpgs. It is WAY faster with RAW files.

Wildwolf - are you looking at RAW files?