Rachelle T

I organize all my folders by year and then month&year (or by last name if I take pictures for others). But, if I want to choose a group of photos to include on my website, or a group of photos to include in an printed photo album then I like to create a "collection" of those photos. So everything stays nicely organized in their folders, but I don't have to search and search for photos everytime I work on a project. Does that make sense?

Oh good, there is!? It's important for organization.

And I really apologize you have so waste so much of your time convincing all of us to stick with Bridge.

But there's not a way to create collections in Bridge? Sometimes collections are so important to be able to create.

I've had a new idea, haha. I could still import my PSD files into LR and organize them (after I open them from Bridge into PS and save as PSD files). IDK, I'll do my best to just try to Ignore LR for now. Adobe is so dumb! They should just solve this problem, with today's technology there's no excuse.

I just wondered if I could use Bridge to decide which numbers would actually be accurate, and then plug them into LR, that way I wouldn't really have to transition, which feels so overwhelming, that I just can't bring myself to complete a big project, because all my organization is in LR...

Well, this is what they look like Layered next to each other in Photoshop. ?

Can I open a photo in Bridge, decide how I want to edit it, and then plug those same numbers into LR, export to PS as a PSD in sRGB 8 bit and get the same results; would it be the same as opening the photo from Bridge into PS (all with the same WB, exposure, contrast, highlights, etc)?

I've played around with it a little bit but I'll look into it more later today. Thanks.

The question is, what do I do about it? Can I desaturate my monitor or do I need to compensate by adding saturation after I finish editing each picture? I remember seeing a comment on the internet by someone about adding saturation before printing and then I couldn't remember where the comment was to go back and read up on it to see if the person was referring to a specific instance or if they always add saturation.

Ok, yes I think we're on to something. I've tried overall desaturation on a few of my pictures and then they match my prints!

My prints look desaturated compared to my monitor.

i don't think they clash.

I looked back on an old chat I had about calibrating my iMac and one photographer said, "there are loads of ways to calibrate- i just used the kit my lab (millers) sent me."

I calibrated my monitor with the light off and door shut, a tinted window let in just a tiny bit of natural light.