Adobe Bridge help??

[kimberley]

How do you set adobe bridge to not modify your raw files when you open the files for the first time?

Thanks in advance for the help

[billbunton]

It doesn't modify them. What are you seeing? If the preview in bridge is changing, what you're seeing is initially the embedded JPEG thumbnail. When it changes it's because ACR has rendered it's own preview in the background, and that's what bridge shows when it can.

[kimberley]

It looks like it is changing it...when I first open the bridge when all the file open ( raws) I can see them changing after they are open it slowly changes them..how do I stop that....

[billbunton]

You don't. ACR doesn't know anything about the in-camera settings. As I said, it's building the previews using it's default settings. You could tweak those to be more like the in-camera settings, but then as soon as you changed those you'd have the same problem. The RAW itself is _not_ being touched in any way. As I said above, originally you see the JPEG that the camera processed and embedded in the RAW. When they change you are seeing the actual preview of the image as ACR will convert it.

[Kali]

I know what you mean Kimberley. The thumbnails are displayed with "auto" settings for everything. (Like when you go to open the file into photoshop and the default settings are all auto) I can't stand it, but haven't yet figured out how to turn it off.

[iCe]

I'm not sure I'm understanding the problem. Do you use default settings in ACR? I set mine to Auto WB and 0 everything else out... then save as default settings.

[JohnT]

Kimberly, Bridge reads your current ACR default settings. Zero all of your ACR settings and set the WB to As Shot. Then save new camera raw defaults. That should do it.

[dtscds]

Yeah, what Michael said...
If you want to make everything manual, you open a RAW file, turn everything off of auto, then click on the right-facing arrow beside the drop down box above the settings "pallet". There is an option for "Save New Camera Raw Defaults"--that's what you want to click.
As a useful alternative, you could save that as an action/setting to be used later, but not the default. Adjust everything to your liking and then click on the right-facing arrow. Click on "save settings". You can save it as a specific setting 'package' to be used later. Then, while you are in Bridge, you can select a group of pictures and have ACR apply that setting to all of them. It's pretty fast and works well.
I have a setting for full auto--everything is on auto and I have the saturation bumped up +10. I just run this setting then use Dr. Brown's to resize them at 72. I do this so I can have pretty good shots to upload to my site right away. Pretty quick and looks good too. I just wish Dr. Brown's didn't have to open Photoshop to do it's magic. On my slow computer it takes a while for PS to load and spool up.

[kimberley]

okay, thanks guys after the first post i thought I was really going nuts I knew there was something changing .....I was like wow what the heck is happening to my color and contrast....thanks guys