Is there any way to open or call PureRAW from within Adobe Bridge ? I would like to load all my new image files using Adobe Bridge, cull / delete files I do not want to keep, then select and load the keepers into PureRAW for batch processing. Is there a method or script that can be used to accomplish this workflow ?
So I also use Bridge as my catalogue, I load all my raw files into their appropriate folders, then cull/rate them. I have bridge on my 2nd monitor and have pureraw open on my main and just drag an drop the files I intend to process into PR and have it set to save the dngs to a specific folder so I can open them in canon raw when ready to process them.
I delete the dngs once the files are processed and always keep the original cRAW files.
Its not exactly automatic but not sure it can be more streamlined.
This is ill advised. Your edits are based on these DNGs. You don’t specify your final output but if you ever return to alter your processing (even just to change crop for a different aspect ratio) you will have to regenerate the DNG and re-apply the edits to it. You should always preserve your original RAW and the DNGs out of PureRaw. Essentially the PureRaw step is a destructive (in a good way) edit. You should preserve the output of every destructive step in your workflow.
Not ill advised at all, if I go back to the raw file to re edit then I’ll run PR again, I would only do that in a later version anyway, so would not use the dng anyway.
How do you preserve your edits if you generate a new DNG? Aren’t the edits associated with the DNG out of PureRaw and if you delete the DNG those edits are gone? I suppose in Lightroom it would show as a missing file but how do you do it in Bridge? Is it because there’s a sidecar file so as long as the new DNG has the same name it just works?
Thank you both for your feedback. Since my original post I have modified my workflow down to essentially the same approach you described, that is I drag & drop from one screen to another after culling the images and filtering them in Bridge for loading into PR6. I setup PR6 to create a subdirectory (DxO) inside my original native file directory for the .dng export from PR6. I load then load the PR6 processed files into Photoshop (Ps) via Camera Raw (ACR). Within ACR I apply a linear profile to the images, perform basic adjustments then open them in Ps. Once I completed the final edit on Ps, I save the files to an “Editted” folder as type .psd. If I decide to Export or Print the files I have dedicated folders within that project directory. That workflow allows me to keep the native files, the PR6 .dng files, the editted .psd files and any print proofs or exported file types. I think I can live with the drag & drop method for now. Perhaps DxO will further automate PureRaw to more closely interface with Adobe Bridge similar to the Lightroom interface in the future. However, I will never return to Lightroom…
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As a wildlife photographer I endeavour to get things right in camera, any edits are simply, denoise if I shoot above certain ISO (depending on the body I use) crop if needed for composition, colour correction of my raw(dng), resize, watermark and save as JPEG for output. End of.
I also delete my intermediaries at the end of my workflow. I do work in LRC and not bridge which allows me to edit my DNG and RAW in autosync. This applies all of the edits to both files. When done I export the DNG to a TIFF. Once this is complete I delete the DNG and retain the finished TIFF stacked with the original RAW.
If I ever want to reprocess the image, I open the RAW in the latest PR#. I can then open it in LRC and apply the RAW settings. I can then decide if I want to keep or replace the existing TIFF created from the prior PR# DNG file.