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		Photos courtesy Davis Barber Photography
	RapidFixer is the new flagship product from DAMuseful software. It's a workflow solution that allows you to make lots of quick proofing corrections to RAW files, while still in Bridge. By pushing the buttons that RapidFixer creates in Bridge, you can have access to many of your favorite Camera Raw settings, such as: Temperature Tint Exposure Shadows Brightness Contrast Vignette Sharpen Color Noise Reduction and Curve Presets RapidFixer also lets you apply some useful combinations of setings with a single click. RapidFixer is most useful for Proofing Corrections, the work you do to RAW files in order to get them good enough to put away. In general, this is the level of correction that would make a good web gallery, proofprint, or other onscreen display. RapidFixer can only work on RAW files that have a sidecar file. If you use DNG to archive image files–and it is suggested that you should–then you will want to run RapidFixer on RAW files before you make the DNG conversion. RapidFixer is most useful for groups of images shot in changing light, or shot with on-camera flash. You need to apply a Camera Raw default to the image file before you can run RapidFixer on the file. This can be done from the Bridge menu, or through the RapidFixer default button. There are several advantages of using RapidFixer to adjust image in Bridge: Because Bridge allows you to display a full screen of thumbnail images, you can see many more images simultaneously. This lets you more easily select multiple images that need similar adjustments. That can be particularly useful on the new large wide-screen monitors. Image editing is often an iterative process. You make ratings for quality–then refine your RAW adjustments–and then go back through the Ratings again. Because Bridge has the ability to filter by Rating, these two tasks–rating and RAW file adjustment–can be more efficiently integrated. If you see an image or several images that need a correction as you are browsing in Bridge, you can make those corrections very quickly without having to leave Bridge.