This thread started as a query about Bridge capabilities. Given that, and given that my copy of CS2 (I use 7.0.1 now) has not yet arrived, may I speculate on what I would like to see in the future?
The answer is a database.

The "Bridge Database" would then have a number of charateristics, very much like Album including the ability to store, find and retrieve multiple versions of images across any number of media, with locations not only assigned within the program but also through the MS Move command. (Cut & Paste would be great but not essential.) It should also automatically accession images added from wherever to named folders/directories --- and not to other named or unnamed folders/directories.

Extensive metadata should be retained and should be searchable with full Boolean terms.

Location data types (GPS-derived or derived from other sources) for an extensive list of projected and non-projected, metric & latitude/longitude, coordinates. (GPS is a datatype listed for Bridge, but there is no spatially-enabled viewer in Bridge. That should definitely change; we should all be able to FIND by spatial means and DISPLAY by spatial means.)

Collections should have many new characteristics and should allow for image name & sequence changes on the fly.

Tagging to a number of levels, 5, 6 who knows? Tagging should also allow for inheritance. (If there is a tag for "WEDDINGS" and under it tags for the names of the couples, moving the names sub-tag or sub-category should drag with it the "WEDDINGS" category so one does not have to drag twice. (The db should also keep track of the people separately because they will show up under GRADUATIONS, PORTRAITS, etc.

The db should provide consistent service to all images introduced to any of the Adobe products. Hence directly finding and editing in CS2 an image introduced in Album should be seamless to a user in either application --- or to a user of Illustrator, etc., etc.

LinusF

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