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Bridge is a companion program to Photoshop that you use for file management, it doesn't really do anything in terms of photo manipulation in and of itself.
I'm renaming a bunch of files that I made the mistake of renaming when we were in Europe, so a file that was _IMG_1702 became 150626_0142_IMG_1702, for 26 June 2015. Why I bothered doing that when the image file's metadata maintains that info, I don't know. Apparently I didn't reset the camera's date and time, so the 0142 was the Mountain Standard time, which I think would be 10:42am in Prague, maybe 9:42. Whatever.
So now I have all these files with this ridiculous prefix that I want to get rid of, so I'm renaming them, and I noticed something really interesting. Because I shoot RAW and JPEG, so when I take one photo it produces two files, when I rename the one file 150626_0142_IMG_1702.CR2 to IMG_1702.CR2, it ALSO renames the JPEG!
Saves me a little bit of work, can't complain about that!
ETA: upon further investigating, you have to rename the RAW file for Bridge to rename the JPEG. If you rename the JPEG, nothing happens to the RAW. I've been using Bridge for over a decade and never noticed this!
I'm renaming a bunch of files that I made the mistake of renaming when we were in Europe, so a file that was _IMG_1702 became 150626_0142_IMG_1702, for 26 June 2015. Why I bothered doing that when the image file's metadata maintains that info, I don't know. Apparently I didn't reset the camera's date and time, so the 0142 was the Mountain Standard time, which I think would be 10:42am in Prague, maybe 9:42. Whatever.
So now I have all these files with this ridiculous prefix that I want to get rid of, so I'm renaming them, and I noticed something really interesting. Because I shoot RAW and JPEG, so when I take one photo it produces two files, when I rename the one file 150626_0142_IMG_1702.CR2 to IMG_1702.CR2, it ALSO renames the JPEG!
Saves me a little bit of work, can't complain about that!
ETA: upon further investigating, you have to rename the RAW file for Bridge to rename the JPEG. If you rename the JPEG, nothing happens to the RAW. I've been using Bridge for over a decade and never noticed this!
