Adobe Bridge

I constantly am organizing, specifically files on my computer. Being a graphics designer causes image files specifically to flood my computer. Organizing my designs has always been an issue for me. For instance I would create a few folders to categorize my images: Graphics battles, Vectors, Tech, Grunge, Print, Web, Abstract, Minimalist. I constantly ran into problems though. Some graphics battles included vectors, tech, grunge, abstract, and minimalist designs. Some Print was also grunge, minimalist, vector, or tech. So on and so forth.

Sorting thru and finding these images has always been a pain, some were in folders specifically for clients, some were in random folders i made and forgot about. I've been using web programs such as Flickr and Delicious for tagging items of mine. Flickr for a limited 200 photos/images, and Delicious for bookmarks and Favorites. Tags are the best way i have found to organize thus far. One item can have 10 tags, when one of those tags is searched for, it'll pop-up along with every other file, site, image that also fits under that tag. Search for multiple tags to get more precise results. Start/Search/All Local Drives, how i hate you! Much too time consuming and not nearly as effective as the tag method.

Recently i started using Adobe Bridge. Now Adobe Bridge has hundreds of features from starting meetings based around images, to comparing images side by side 'with magnification', and even tagging where a photograph was taken, with what camera, when. However the feature that has hooked me to the program is the 'keyword' feature. I have recently gone through my entire computer and tagged every single image or psd i could find. Now i can tag so to say my images, designs, and photographs. Organization just got a little easier!

I am using Adobe Bridge Cs3 for anybody interested in testing it out. This program is in a public beta phase and can be downloaded at the Official Adobe lab website, it comes bundled with the Cs3 beta of Photoshop.