Comments on: Quick tip: Reviewing images as B&Ws in Bridge

By: David Harradine

David Harradine — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:31:20 +0000

When you save the grayscale adjustment you should make sure to only check the grayscale adjustment check box, then it will not alter any other adjustments. You could then make a second setting called remove grayscale and save it with grayscale adjustments reset to zero and this would then remove the grayscale preview and return you your original image settings.

By: Onibalusi Bamidele

Onibalusi Bamidele — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:08:37 +0000

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By: Leigh Perry

Leigh Perry — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:21:34 +0000

With the XRite Passport making it easy to produce shoot-specific camera profiles, it would be nice to also tell Bridge to Edit->Develop Settings->{camera calibration profile}, rather than having to explicitly wrap the profile in a preset.
Cheers
Leigh

By: James

James — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:49:36 +0000

Clarification:
I meant to say Camera Raw Settings, not Camera Settings

By: John Hoffman

John Hoffman — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:34:27 +0000

Making features, templates, and other useful material easily accessible to the user has always been a challenge to developers of large full-featured programs such as many in Adobe’s Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, etc. In fact, I suspect the derisive term “bloatware” is often used by purchasers who do not realize how much useful material has been included of which the purchasers are unaware.
WordPerfect has long come with a booklet (in pdf only, in more recent editions) that shows all included fonts, graphics, etc. Maybe an analogous pdf could be packaged with Photoshop and other CS programs to show where in the menu structure to find specific features, templates, etc.

By: James Shewmaker

James Shewmaker — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:34:06 +0000

John,
But that tampers with the current Camera Settings, doesn’t it? Is there anyway to “preview only” as Grayscale without altering the Camera Settings that are already in place?
James

By: Watson

Watson — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:25:55 +0000

That is a great tip and shall I say an old school work around with ACR and Bridge. have forgotten about that one since my life in Lightroom began.
Happy New Year John!