New to PS3 from LR

I've been using LR since it came out and love it but just got PS3extended via student rate and I've gotten the S. Kelby book per your recommendations (the PS3 for Digital Photo).

Here's my question--should I really start at the beginning using the entire bridge thing or stay with my LR system and just use PS for fixes/frames etc? Do people with LR use PS for sorting etc. or is LR better for file management? I hate the idea of reinventing my filing if it's not necessary.

Hope that makes sense and all replies are appreciated. Thanks folks.

I would say stay as long as you can in LR and leave the critical stuff for CS3.

Though it depends really how much you shoot in the end. The more you shoot the better is LR in my opinion.

bridge for sorting > LR for tagging and minor adjustments via batching > PSCS3 for major work ie dealing with layers, sharpening and preparing for print

thats my workflow.

thanks Bollan and Cider. I will try Cider's approach with some small batches and see what I think of it--at least that way I'll learn what the bridge thing is and how it works.

You guys are great.
Cheers
Nancy

I'm with Cider on this one. I use bridge for sorting then take them into LR for minor adjustments and batch processing along with tagging and exif for the editor. Then I send the ones that require harder edits into PS. I keep at most 10k images in LR. After about 10k I notice a substantial slow down in LR.

Bumgardnern wrote in post #5101315
I'm with Cider on this one. I use bridge for sorting then take them into LR for minor adjustments and batch processing along with tagging and exif for the editor. Then I send the ones that require harder edits into PS. I keep at most 10k images in LR. After about 10k I notice a substantial slow down in LR.

I don't understand why you want to go back and forth between two different programs. This does nothing but slow your work flow down. Not only will bridge sort, it will tag, you can edit your exif and then batch process everything. Then move to PS for minor corrections, watermarking and saving. Most of that done by actions. If you have a major problem you are already there. One program, fast simple work flow. Needless to say, I am not a big fan of Lightroom.

slow my workflow down? it has sped it up 10 fold if not more.

minor correction edits in LR take less time than PS, not to mention if you want to keep the files safe you have to save as TIFF in PS, in LR you dont as no corrections are hard attached to the files till you export therefore saving space on your HDD, time.

i use bridge for sorting because i find it faster, images render quicker and when i am processing 5000 images from a weekend event i need it to be quicker than LR, i prefer LR for keywords and metadata edit i can add custom meta data for future, no idea if bridge can do this but i much prefer LR.

i have actions setup, minor processing of 1000+ images in LR takes very little time, why do i need actions for this and it takes longer?

maybe you need to look more closely in to LR because its definately not a bad program.