CS5 Bridge and Elements

Hello,
I happen to have Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 Plus and Adobe CS5 installed on my desktop.Both programs work fine when using one or the other.My problem is if I have CS5 Bridge open and highlight a photo that I want to open (right click open or top file menu)the photo opens in Elements 8 Edit.I would think it should open Photoshop 5,but can't seem to find where to change it from.I keep Elements installed because its handleing the photo backups right now.Any suggestions?I'm missing something I'm sure.Thanks.

My problem is if I have CS5 Bridge open and highlight a photo that I want to open (right click open or top file menu)the photo opens in Elements 8 Edit.
Go to Bridge edit/preferences/file type associations and change the defalult program for extenstion to CS5.
And if you have keywords in Elements they can be read in Bridge, you just have to find the option to write files to metadata.

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Best regards
Max

I can't buy CS& so any possible compromise?
The option Curt provided would be nice but I'm not sure this would work. However, you can try it yourself because you seem to have both Elements 8 and 11.
Under Bridge preferences is a tab called File Type Associations where you can set the file types to open in using Bridge. If it works Elements 11 should be in the list to choose from.
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Now Adobe changed its policy and now distributes all applications through the Creative Cloud (aka CC).
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And to be honest, if you only shoot raw or tiff to get them converted without editing you will have better results in shooting jpeg directly. Using Raw gives you great abilities to get the most out of your files but usually that is not happening with a simple converting without knowing how to edit the raw files.
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bridge does not use catologs as elements does.
elements for me is a million times quicker at organising and finding pictures.
but if that catalog developes an error then it can be a pain to fix.
Bridge, updates its image database evertime its run, which is why its so so so slow....
yes it has a thumbnail database of the images but not an overal 'catalog' file.
lightroom works similar to elements and again is much better than bridge, but so long as your database in lightroom functions.
thats kind of why i personally use bridge, though i hate it as its basically so full of bugs and as said slow.
but you can drag and drop new folders without too much of a problem.
in answer to your question.
i dont think you can just load bridge.
either way it will not effect your elements catalog, there treated as two seperate programs.
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Sorry for the noise. I misunderstood your depth of knowlege and what you had tried. I also committed the sin of not testing the procedure all the way through because I did not want to change the association on my computer. I get the same behavior.
Guess for .jpg
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