Comments on: Lightroom Class: PNG Conversion in Bridge

By: Kira

Kira — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:37:46 +0000

Hey Kayla! I know its been a while since you posted this video, but hopefully you still get comments. I was wondering, I’m working with an older version of bridge that came with PSE 6, and it doesn’t offer the option for LZW compression. Is that going to make a huge difference in the size of my files? Should I go to the trouble of downloading a trial version of Photoshop so I can use a better bridge?

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:35:14 +0000

Hey kayla ~ It’s me again. Ok, now I seem to be having bigger problems. When I couldn’t seem to get things to work in Bridge (not being able to find my PNGs) I went back to square one and started over. Apparently, LR didn’t like this idea because now when I try to import my scrapbook kit file it’s not reading anything but a few previews. It’s giving me a “could not read preview” message and only trying to import about 142 images. After having a complete “Why are these things always so hard for me” pity party yesterday, I stepped away from the computer. I was hoping I would have an epiphany in the middle of the night, but it didn’t happen. So here I am hoping you can help me. I’ve checked and all my kits are still right there in my Windows OS, but for some reason LR is not reading them. I also searched Windows for my PNGs and they were there. I hope this is clear. Thanks for your help!!

By: kayla

kayla — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:35:21 +0000

If you go into Windows Explorer or Mac Finder and search for PNG files, can you see them there? Another thing to check in Bridge is View > Show Items From Subfolders. Hope that helps.

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:53:33 +0000

Kayla ~ I’ve finally sat down to try and tackle this job of organizing my supplies. The lack of organization has been a real creative road block for me so I’m hoping I can figure this out. I’m to the step where I show items from the sub folder and then put the check mark by PNG image file type in Bridge. Here’s the problem…none of my subfolders show any PNGs; everything is either jpegs or tifs?? Did I mess up in my conversion to LR. This is all a little over my head. Thanks a bunch!

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:07:38 +0000

Might be a good idea. It was a good thing I thought of checking my alpha script before I deleted my PNGs