Photography
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I've got over 30k files and have been using Bridge for years. I'm drowning in files and need to find a way to organize them.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)I've got the subscription with Lightroom and Photoshop, and Bridge.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Both Bridge and Lightroom store your images on the hard drive(s).
Lightroom uses a SQLite database to track your images and store your edits to the files. To see the edits outside of Lightroom, you need to "export" your edits into a new file, usually JPG. The original images are never changed.
When you "import" your photos into Lightroom, you can choose that the files can stay where they already are or LR can move them elsewhere to be organized as you choose. The database contains references to the files by pathname.
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)about what LR does with the files.
Thank you.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)I'm glad that someone answered with information that I needed.
It's all good.