Speed up kickstarting post-processing project(s) with Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Bridge.

Usage

[!important] Before you get started, it's important to emphasise that you use these bootstrapping files at your own risk.

It's generally a good practice that you experiment with these on sample Lightroom project and/or you diligently cleanup after yourself in the settings of your Adobe Bridge installation before you starting applying them to amend your workflow within Lightroom and Bridge respectively.

Installation

❯ yarn install

The boot file

1. You copy the boot.config.sample.yaml to boot.config.yaml.
2. You edit this file and add your own preferences and configurations

Example

# It is recommended to use PascalCase
namespace: MyProject

Author: ADDIE

collections:
  # generic categories across multiple themes
  agnostic:
    - name: ISO_COATED_V2
      category: Conversions

  # themed categories, genre specific
  themes:
    - name: Sunrise
      category: Motive
    - name: Sunset
      category: Motive

  # lightroom collection definitions
  # adjust these to your liking.
  definitions:
    # CAMERAS + FILE_FORMAT
    - name: Sony 7ii + JPEG
      prefix: 'camera'
      combineType: intersect
      config:
        pick:
          criteria: camera
          operation: any
          value: Sony ILCE-7M2
        fileFormat:
          criteria: fileFormat
          operation: '=='
          value: JPEG

Adjust definitions at your own risk. To understand better how definitions[*].config works, you will have to inspect the your existing Lightroom collection first. From there, you get a good idea of how a configuration for a Lightroom collection could look like and you can start small by experimenting with new collections that matches your preferences. You are free to delete the definitions section entirely.

Building your collections

Run the following script:

❯ yarn build

Inspect the /output folder and have a look at the generated collections for Lightroom and Bridge respectively.

Output

output/Adobe Bridge Keywords.txt

A list of reusable Adobe Bridge Keywords. The file is the importable Keywords for Adobe Bridge. To import this; Go to Adobe -> Keywords Panel -> Import.

• Application: Adobe Bridge
• Scope: Installation. By importing this, it will be part of your Adobe Bridge installation.

output/Metadata Templates

This is a collection of reusable Metadata Templates that you apply to your images in Adobe Bridge.

These files are intended for you to copy these over into your Adobe Bridge settings.

In MacOS; the placement of these templates can be /Users/<THIS_IS_YOU>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/XMP.

• Application: Adobe Bridge
• Scope: Installation. By importing this, it will be part of your Adobe Bridge installation.

output/Lightroom/Keyword Sets

This is a collection of reusable Keyword Sets across your Lightroom Projects.

These files are intended for you to copy these over into your Adobe Lightroom settings.

In MacOS; the placement of these templates can be /Users/<THIS_IS_YOU>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom

Once you've done this, you can expect your Keyword Sets to display in the list of options of the Keywording panel of Lightroom.

• Application: Adobe Lightroom
• Scope: Installation. By importing this, it will be part of your Adobe Lightroom installation.

output/Lightroom/Collections

These are the Lightroom Smart Collections that you can use in a single Lightroom project.

You import them into Lightroom, so you transform your Smart Collections.

[!info] Note that Smart Collections are per project in Lightroom. When you kickstart a new Lightroom project, you import them again.

• Application: Adobe Bridge
• Scope: Project. By importing this, it will be part of your Adobe Lightroom project.

Example

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