Adobe Bridge A no-cost DAM
Ashok Kandimalla has been in the photographic field for over three decades and has extensive experience in both film and digital photography. Being an electronics engineer by profession and a photographer, he possesses a unique and deep insight into the technical aspects of digital photography and equipment. He has published more than a 100 articles on photography and some of his writings have also been published in the well-known international magazine Popular Photography. An avid collector of photographic books and vintage cameras, Ashok has a keen interest in the history of photography and a passion for sharing his knowledge on photography through teaching and writing. He is the only Indian photographer to be featured on the Nikon Centenary website. He is presently working as a Management and Engineering consutant. He can be reached at kashokk@gmail.com.
Last month you read how a good DAM can help you organise your photo-library and also the features that it should provide. Based on the latter, we need to choose a DAM. Now, we will look at one such app and see what it can do for you.
Fortunately, many standalone DAM applications (apps) are available - some free and some paid. For this article, we will consider what we feel is one of the best, viz., Adobe Bridge. We have chosen it for the following reasons.
1. It is a standalone software that can be used with most post-processing apps.
2. It has many features of Lightroom’s built-in DAM (known as Library module) which is considered to be one of the best available.
3. It has a user interface that is similar to the other popular Adobe apps with which some of you are familiar.
4. Last
