This chapter helps introduce you to Bridge, Camera Raw, Lightroom, and Photoshop. It was strange to me to read it in the order they explained it because brooks showed us how his workflow progressed. I think I like to take images to Lightroom first before ANY editing to create a DNG is completely free of editing and is raw in the purest form. Anyways, in the chapter we learn about Panels, Workspaces, Tools, Shortcuts, Modifiers, Menus, Features, Metadata, Collections, and much more. Although they didn't introduce us to every single function, they showed us where to find what we are looking for.
The reason Photoshop is unique is it's ability to create layers and filters. Photoshop is the only "destructive editing program" of these four Adobe programs, there are many things we can only do in photoshop. Bridge is like a glorified window browser that can work together with Camera Raw and Photoshop. Camera Raw and Lightroom are nondestructive in that when you make an edit, they edit layers and not the actual pixels, therefore any edits can be doubled, halved, and undone without any trace of an edit.
Lastly they talk a little bit about the workflow and how an image should go through all these steps from the camera to print, web, and / or presentation. Alltogether this was a bit of overview for me, but not bad if I might add. I will have to reread sections to better memorize the shortcuts to improve my speed in editing.
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