Would you recommend Light Room?

[KmH]

I specifically refered to CAMERA RAW. Lightroom's Develope module and CS5's Camera Raw are virtually identical for the purposes of editing because they both use ACR.

Bridge, like Lightroom can keyword and rate images. I have several EXIF, IPTC, and keyword templates in Bridge I use when I upload images.

Bridge however is a browser, while Lightroom is a database manager. That means Lightroom is more efficient and faster when I want to search all of my images for photos that fit the search criteria - woman, desk, blue, business, glasses, standing.

 

[2WheelPhoto]

I specifically refered to CAMERA RAW. Lightroom's Develope module and CS5's Camera Raw are virtually identical for the purposes of editing because they both use ACR.

Bridge, like Lightroom can keyword and rate images. I have several EXIF, IPTC, and keyword templates in Bridge I use when I upload images.

Bridge however is a browser, while Lightroom is a database manager. That means Lightroom is more efficient and faster when I want to search all of my images for photos that fit the search criteria - woman, desk, blue, business, glasses, standing.

Yeah, my point is we both know Lightroom is a WHOLE lot more than "just a database manager" is why I'm confused. I can't imagine falling back to Bridge after having a taste of Lightroom and what all it does.