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If you're running Camera Raw in Photoshop, however, and click Done to close out of it, you're stuck in Photoshop, with no image on your screen and nothing to do. It doesn't need Photoshop running in the background, and that means Photoshop won't be hogging any of your computer's resources for no reason.Īnother benefit to running Camera Raw from Bridge, and one that has an impact on your workflow, is that when you're finished processing one image in Camera Raw and click the Done button to close out of it, you're instantly returned to Bridge, ready to select and open the next image. In other words, Camera Raw is perfectly capable of running in Bridge itself, or another way to put it, Camera Raw can be 'hosted' by Bridge, just like it can be hosted by Photoshop.

That's why Adobe gave us the ability not only to select our images in Bridge but also to open and process them in Camera Raw without leaving Bridge, and without needing to open Photoshop. If you're working on a slower computer to begin with, having programs open in the background that you're not using can slow you down even more.Ĭamera Raw offers such a complete image editing environment that it's entirely possible to do everything you need to do with your photo in Camera Raw without ever needing to open it in Photoshop for further editing. Even if you're not working in Photoshop at the time, as long as it's open in the background, it's still using up resources. Photoshop, like all programs, uses up some of your computer's resources while it's open. One can improve the speed of your computer, while the other can speed up your workflow.

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In this tutorial, we'll learn what those advantages are, and how to open Camera Raw so that it's running in Bridge rather than Photoshop, including a look at an important option in the Bridge Preferences.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! The Adobe Bridge Advantagesīefore we look at how to choose between working with Camera Raw in Bridge or Photoshop, let's first discuss the advantages that running it in Bridge offers, and there's really two main advantages to talk about. I mean, who cares if Camera Raw is open in Bridge or Photoshop as long as it's open, right? If it looks the same in Photoshop and Bridge (it does), and it does all the same things in either program (it does), then what's the difference? Well, Adobe gave Camera Raw the ability to run inside Bridge for a reason, and it's because there are certain advantages to it.

But did you know that Camera Raw also runs in Adobe Bridge? In fact, depending on how you've been opening your photos in Camera Raw, you may have been running it in Bridge without even knowing it!

ADOBE CAMERA RAW 5.5 DOWNLOAD FREE

As we've learned so far in previous tutorials, Adobe Camera Raw is a free plug-in for Photoshop designed to make processing and developing images as simple and intuitive as possible.

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