Bridge CS4 assigning tags

I think I am in the right place to ask this question. I got Bridge, I guess as I stumbled upon it a few months ago, with Photoshop Elements 8. It is EXACTLY what I have been looking for as I have over 1000 photos to organize and scan in. They are old photos, not photos that will be transfered from a camera (as many of the titorials concentrate on).
Because I have so many photos that I have been working on over the years, I have photos scattered, many duplicate photos that are the same format, and many that are duplicates with both TIFF and JPG formats, over a few hard drives and folders. I realize that I may not be able to do what I am about to ask over differant hard drives but I but it can be done over images on the same drive.
As I take a folder and tag each photo, I find the same photo coming up in another fold that is the same or had been edited or is in another format. I don't really want to delete until I have everything tagged and make sure I don't need it before deleting. Is there any way to bring up all images on a hard drive, regardless of what folder it is, sort them by name, and then I can "group" tag them (except for such things as format and editted or not editted)? This way I wont have to tag them over and over each time I tackle another folder.
Hope this is clear and I would certainly appreciat any pointers anyone may have.
Thanks,
Jim

You are probably in the right place...
I understand your point, since I had about the same problem last years with about 2 000 old scanned family pictures gathered from various family members. Unfortunately I cannot help you with Bridge, as I am a Windows and Organizer user.
In your case, the original drive and folders organization seem to be more of a problem than a helpful tool.
If you could move all your files to a single drive/folder, do you really think alphabetical sorting would help ?
I rather think that to 'group' similar photos you'll have to use content and visual similarity to use keywords.
I could help you (or other people with the same problem) with the organizer, but I don't know if this would provide the pointers you are looking for.
Things you can do in the Organizer:
- move all files to a single master folder in a chosen drive (via backup/restore)
- stack (group) files even from different folders/drives
- index by visual similarity
- face recognition
- export with renaming scheme (Windows)
- smart tagging based on multicriteria searches

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good morning
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bonjour
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Hello, I am hoping someone can be of service to peculiar problem that apparently nobody else has had.
I am running Adobe Bridge CS4 (came bundled with Photoshop Elements 8) on a 2009 24 inch iMac with 4GB RAM and a 2.6mHz processor running Snow Leopard v10.6.2.
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Now I'm noticing that all my search results are not including NEF files; just JPEG and the occasional DNG file that I made through Adobe Camera RAW. I'm not sure if this has been the case throughout my problem or if I just noticed it late.
Regarding not displaying NEF files in searches, it appears that it will default to displaying JPEG if it has the option because as of lately I have only been shooting RAW and some of those files are showing up in the still-wonky searches (still displaying random or no photos of keywords.) However, if I manually navigate to a file, I can open and edit NEF files with no problem, they just don't display in any search modes.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDjUDZzULKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y9HkDK7DCs
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I am running Adobe Bridge CS4 (came bundled with Photoshop Elements 8) on a 2009 24 inch iMac with 4GB RAM and a 2.6mHz processor running Snow Leopard v10.6.2.
Snow Leopard and Bridge CS4 do have some issues. Some have no problems and others have much problems I'm afraid.
I use Adobe Bridge CS4 to add Keywords to all my photos and edit 14 bit Nikon NEF RAW files. I write the keywords to an .XMP sidecar file.
To my knowledge the keywords are written into the XMP Metadata that is saved in the IPTC section of file itself, the XMP data in the sidecar file contain the changes you made in ACR. In other words, the keywords you have added should still be there.
Also see this Knowledge Base article about Keywords:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402660.html
Two days I ago I changed something in Preferences->Metadata and the next time I started Bridge CS4 and used the loupe tool on a NEF file, it took longer than usual for the preview to come up and when it did, it was at 200% magnification instead of 100%.
Changes metadata in prefs only affects the visability of the fields in the metadata panel. put or deselect a checkmark in front of an option will let you see or not see the field in this panel, the actual data and fields ar still in the file.
it was at 200% magnification instead of 100%. Once the loupe preview showed up, the NEF file had some sort of processing applied to it (it became more contrasted.) This was all within Bridge ant NOT Adobe Camera Raw.
You can change the magnification for the loupe to 100 / 200 / 400 and 800 % using the scrollwheel or with loupe active the + and - keys. Bridge shows the settings that you made in ACR. If you have changed the default Camera Raw setting it will also change the thumbs for this file. A thumbs needs some time to be cached. First it shows with a black border around, when first cached it shows the embedded preview and in the second round it renders the ACR settings and High Quality preview (if you have not disabled this setting). Caching needs some time.
Everything appeared to be normal until today when I searched for a keyword and got 36 random results when I know I have hundreds of photos tagged with that particular keyword. I started typing in other keywords and getting the same sort of results- very limited numbers of photos I have hundreds of. I always include all subfolders in all searches and used every search method available through Bridge to no avail. The searches always came up with a fraction of the photos I actually have tagged.
Maybe you need to let the indexing in find do its work again but it might also be a snow leopard issue. Try an other app (Digital Asset Management like Expresion Media or Portfolio) to check about the keywording and find. You can use a trial version for several days. You have several options to use find keywords. In the panel itself, in the filterpanel uner the keyword tab, when clicking on a visible keyword it only shows the files with that keyword or in the menu Edit / find (shortcut cmd + F) explore the options in this menu and also choose include non indexed and let Bridge start to index your files again.
However, when I clicked on an individual file in the Content pane, some of my Keywords started to appear in italics below the rest of my Keyword tree. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason as to why some images will return the Keywords normally and others in italics. Also, sometime the italicized keyword tree will include keywords I edited due to typos and thus no longer existing my normal Keyword tree. I gave the "Make Persistent" command a try. It converts the italics to regular case, but it also doubles the tag so I now have two of that tag (one in the normal keyword tree, and the now converted italics keyword tree.)
Don't know about that.
Here's two short videos of what happens when I navigate a folder with NEF files by manually searching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDjUDZzULKQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y9HkDK7DCs
When I click on a NEF file, the one ahead of it in Content view processes into a more contrasty image and the loupe tool previews jump between 100% and 400% and then change to 100% when dragged or they just process themselves right then and there.
As you can see the black border around some file that disappear after a while or when you select them they have not been cached. You used purge cache so most of your earlier cached results are gone and need to rebuild.

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I am just evaluating LIGHTROOM 3.3 and I have CS4 Design Premium Package including BRIDGE CS4. NowI have a huge amount of picture and gave them a lot of picture tags like stars and colors etc and I have several COLLECTIONS under Bridge (NAME.filelist).
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Hi WW,
thx a lot for your help.
regarding collections I found the following article here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3196896#3196896
Your help regarding tags is surely helpful and solve the problem, but it is only a work-around.
For my understanding the three products out of one house (PhotoShop Elements Organizer, Bridge and Lightroom) doing about the same, should ...
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maintain the same database and files (LR should recognize the collections from BR and Vice Versa, use the same cache files etc.) and should
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Actually I suggest ADOBE
to eliminate Organizer and integrate the good functions into BRIDGE.
give BRIDGE as the free of charge picture organizer to PS Elements and to PS CS
change LIGHTROOM into an payable upgrade of BRIDGE with enhanced functionality of the free of charge BRIDGE
better integration of PSE, PS CS and Lightroom
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Merry X-Mas and a Happy New Year
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I have compared this bebaviour with Bridge CS3 and PsCS3 where it does not happen, as far as I can tell, because the amount of desaturation is fairly subtle.
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Has bridge cs4 a database?

Hi
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but this with cs3 overload the cpu because every time scan photos for the info
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CCleaner did the trick for me too!
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Under CS3 I used Vista "open with">"choose program">"always use" to assiciate bridge CS3 with my canon camera raw files.. At that time it did work.
After installing CS4, I wanted to do the same with bridge CS4 but it didnt work. In the "choose program" vista menu, whatever I was doing, I couldnt select bridge CS4 it was always comming back to photoshop cs4 or bridge cs3.
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I'm getting this message when trying to open an image from Bridge CS4 in ACR,
"Camera raw requires that a qualifying product has been launched at least once to enable this feature"
Any ideas how to cure this, I've downloaded the update 5.2.2., what is the correct location for this? Automatic update is just opening a box withe file in and I cant find the previous.
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Philip:
This has been discussed in the Camera Raw Forum: you may need to install the new ACR 5.2 plug-in in the correct place manually.
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I want to preview the individual art boards as a larger image, and when they all appear together in the *.ai file, they appear smaller.
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MacBook Pro
OS 10.5.5
Photo Shop CS4 version 11
Camera Raw 5.2.0.65
I had another version of Camera Raw from PS3. When I bought the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, I deleted the old camera raw plug in, so as to not conflict with the new camera raw plug in.
When I open PS4, click Photoshop, click about plug in, ONLY one version of Camera Raw comes up.
In OS 10, when I click GO at the top, then applications, then Adobe Photoshop CS4, then Plug Ins, then File Formats, I get two Camera Raw icons: a blue lego like icon that says "Camera Raw.plugin" and another icon that looks like the Macintosh HD icon, but is labeled "CameraProfiles.dmg"
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Desperate in NYC.

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