#Adding keywords to photo in on1 portable#
#Adding keywords to photo in on1 pro#

If you saved the document but left it open, the problem did not occur. it occurred when you saved an Illustrator document, closed that document and went to Bridge. After many hours on the phone with Adobe tech support (who were probably thinking I was a nutter) we finally narrowed it down to one particular scenario. You then have to make any other app active, then go back to Bridge before it will respond. make it the active app) but it won't respond to any mouse clicks. It regularly crashes and has this unusual quirk that, when you click on a part of the Bridge window that is visible while you're in another app (my usual method for switching apps) it will bring Bridge to the foreground (i.e. Unfortunately it is Adobe Bridge, out of all the Creative Cloud apps, that gives me the most grief. And will probably drop the Adobe subscription and Lightroom. I'll be running Affinity, editing CR3's in Affinity, and using Bridge as my DAM. Honestly, if Affinity gets support added for CR3 + my specific camera and lens, I'm there. But if Affinity handles your cameras RAW files types and you are ok working with their RAW editor, obviously it's not a problem. The main one for me is that is doesn't give you the rich raw editing capabilities of Adobe Camera RAW. Although without an Adobe photography plan subscription it won't give you a couple things that I need, and that many would probably want. Considering it's free, even for non-Adobe subscribers, it's worth considering to use as your DAM with Affinity. I use it almost daily even as a non-graphics-pro user of any type.

They have recently made some updates to it and it runs very smoothly and has a great feature set. I don't believe that's the case now, if it ever was. And sometimes if just doing a quick edit, I actually launch the ACR raw editor on a file from there, if that file is not yet in Lightroom for some reason.īridge is a great app and I read some complaints a few years back they were letting it die. Also use it to pull incoming images from my camera, cull those, and convert to DNG using the Adobe DNG converter under the hood. Bridge is a great app though and I do use that for browsing all the digital assets I have including PDFs, and tagging with metadata. But it's a fair point that Lightroom is 100% about photography. That is a totally valid point-I'm not a photographer OR a designer.

I'd suck it up and pay the $10/month, and heck, I'm doing that now even as a rank amateur.

#Adding keywords to photo in on1 pro#

I said it earlier, but if I were a pro photographer, unless just totally on a limited budget, there's no way I'd use any DAM other than Lightroom Classic. You can use Lightroom with Affinity Photo quite easily, so it's a great solution there as we can all use our favorite photo editor. Ultimately ON1's handling of RAW files was notably inferior to Adobe's, I literally could not get the same results in terms of image quality. They are ambitious for sure, they are adding features to compete head-to-head against Adobe and it's interesting to see.Īll that said, for a DAM, I still think Lightroom is the one to beat. They have a new feature they call 'On1 sync' that they say is coming first half of 2020, that will address the need to easily share your database among multiple different computers and even mobile devices. Interestingly, On1 is now claiming to address that issue as well.

#Adding keywords to photo in on1 portable#

The disadvantage is if you don't create sidecars, as fde101 says, the whole database containing your edits is less portable and harder to move between systems. Obviously the advantage there is speed (less files to manage, less reads and writes to disk, and so on) and performance, and a cleaner file system with the appearance of less clutter since all the *.on1 sidecar files are not created. You can optionally enable sidecars, OR (like lightroom) there's a setting that I just went and confirmed, you can turn that off and ON1 will simply store all the settings in its own database.

I have nothing to gain from saying this as I don't use ON1 anyway-but having just recently tried it, it's QUITE similar to lightroom in how it handles the metadata for edited raw and image files.