Bridge

I've been using most of the Adobe products for years -- especially Lightroom and Photoshop.  However, I've never quite understood the purpose of Bridge.  Lightroom (slowly) manages most of my digital assets such as photos and videos, so why would I need Bridge?If I have content in Bridge, I would surely want to use them first in Lighrtoom anytime I ever wanted to do anything with them, so I'd have to open Bridge, move them to Lightroom and them edit them there or move them yet again into Photoshop ------ so why Bridge?I'm sure there's something fundamental that I'm not understanding about Bridge in regards to a healthy work flow.  Could anyone help me understand why I would ever want to use Bridge and how I might best include it in a workflow?Thanks!!

I'm trying to organize keywords in a simple hierarchy, with a "title" keyword that's not "active," and then a list of subkeywords under that. For example:Color -Red -White -GreenIn this scenario, I don't want the word "Color" to be assigned to an image.According to the manual, "If you want a parent keyword to be used for structural purposes only, place the keyword in brackets, such as [Names]. Keyords in brackets cannot be added to files."This isn't working for me. At all.Anybody?

Hello Sahil,I have the same problem. Three crashes while loading 50 images from SD card which is in the iMac SD card slot. No USB devices connected at all. Bridge version is 9.1.0.338.BR,PetriMessage was edited by: Sahil Chawla

Before getting my new PC I'd like to save my Bridge catalog to transfer it in the new machine. Where can I find it ? Thank you for help.

For the third time, Bridge has unexpectedly erased all my keywords. This seemingly happened without cause; I did not just update Bridge. Using Bridge CC 2019 version 9.1.0.338 on Mac OS 10.14.5. Does anyone know how to prevent this?Message was edited by: Sahil Chawla

Hi,I've chosen to keep using Bridge 2018 because the new version is so much busier in the Content panel (there's so much unnecessary boxes and highlighted areas which distract from my images) but now an issue I have is trying to use Image Processor in the Tools > Photoshop menu doesn't work. Nothing happens when I click it (with images highlighted).I have checked in Preferences > File handling and the correct Photoshop 2019 is selected for all relevant file formats.Please advise another tactic?Thanks!

Bridge delays playing the audio of a video. When I play the video, it plays normally, but the audio is not heard until a second time click the play button. Sorry for my English, it's Google Traslate.My PC is:- Core i7 8700K - 4.7GHz- 64GB RAM DDR4 3000 MHz- 2 GTX 1070Ti- Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB for SO Windows 10- Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB for Media Caché of Adobe

Hi!I want to see all my pictures and videos on my pc wins 10 computer desktop in Bridge.Can it search for everything like Picsasa did?  On both my hard drives?Can I do that?Thanks.[ moved from Adobe Creative Cloud to Bridge by moderator ]

All of a sudden I cannot move files within Bridge. The move option is greyed out. I can only copy.

The company I work for uses an app called "iView" to sort and review images for editorial purposes. This program was "end of life'd" quite some time ago and It's time to finally move away from our old program.  A traditional DAM software, isn’t an option so we're going to use Bridge instead for our editorial and production needs. It seems like its going to work except for one part.... Saved sorting that can be viewed amongst different users. As of right now, changing file names is out of the question. We tend to re-use assets across different projects, so having to change the file name would break links on existing projects OR create many many duplicates of the same image.This is a short example of our current process: User1 (the editor) sets the order using meta data fields, in which the images should be placed in the working document. User2 (the designer) needs to open those images to see the same order that User1 set them in. In the old application, we are able to sort images b

I have been organizing my images by date, with nested folders like this:e:\2019-04-14 Photoshoot - Park\   [ contains all .net and .jpg files directly from the camera]e:\2019-04-14 Photoshoot - Park\wip [ works in progress ]e:\2019-04-14 Photoshoot - Park\wip\smalljpg [ copies of the jpg files resized to 25% and saved with a slightly higher compression to speed up browsing for the best pictures]e:\2019-04-14 Photoshoot - Park\wip\smalljpg\thumbs [ jpg files resized to 5%]And then repeat for more folders:e:\2019-06-04 Photoshoot - Lake\e:\2019-06-20 Photoshoot - Waterfall\e:\2019-07-05 Photoshoot - Fireworks\You get the idea.What I'd like to do is have a smart collection of all of my small jpg files from 2019 where the criteria are something likeFiletype:  jpgLocation: e:\2019*\**\smalljpg  [double * to indicate that there could be zero or more folders in the the path]Subfolders: noIf I had to list each location's full path and use an OR, that would be ok.  I wo

RS132695_72419-1.jpgRS12691_372369-1.jpgRS12693_72379-1.jpgRS12694_72384-1.jpgRS12696_724139-2.jpgRS12697_72472-1.jpgRS12698_72475-1.jpgRS122692_72378-1.jpgAs I mentioned above I have different files, need to change as below(need to remove RS and from _/d{5-6}-/d) )126911269312694126961269712698122692132695the extension should not be added, I need the file as Unix format. Could anyone help me with this?  Please

Bridge2019/ Windows 10Whenever i double click an MS Office file in Bridge - it launches After Effects. What i did so far:1. Settings - Files Affiliation - does not list any  Office applications so i can not change the afiliation here (hide unaffiliated formats is unchecked)2. All system bound affiliations are correct and working properly. Even the highest admin level connects office files correctly to its app.3. Reset preferences and restarted multiple times.What works is: drag and drop the Office file from Bridge into the launched Office application. But that hardly is a long term solution.Best,MDC

I have tried for 2 days (off and on) to try to get Bridge CS6 to copy the information from the Description field to the Title field in the metadata. I can get it into the menu, but nothing happens when I modify other scripts. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.If you want a good laugh, I can post my previous attempts.

Hello,I need to create a process of copying the filename of a tiff to the description in that same file's iptc. Ideally i'd like to be able to drop the script in to an Apple Automator process, but that would be a luxury. There's also an extra catch: i need the script to replace "=" with ":" and to add a prefix, for example "CMS:"Here's an example:inputfilename: 8737=6.tifdescription:outputfilename: 8737=6.tifdescription: CMS:8737:6It seems a faily basic process but i don't know where to start with this scripting business... Any help or advise would be much appreciated! Perhaps you know of a really similar one that i can modify??Lewis

Hi,I know this question has been asked and unanswered a few times, but I can't believe there still hasn't been a fix issued.I use the contact sheet/pdf very often as part of my workflow, to send clients a quick shoot overview for selection. For a couple months, in every pdf export the colors are way too saturated, and the images are darker and more contrasted. It looks awful. When is Adobe going to fix this massive issue? Could you recommend another software or solution to achieve the same thing - quick, easy, simple? Doing it with Photoshop is such a drag.Thanks!

If I tried to input a folder with backslashes like "D:\Photos\2018" the backslashes are not "accepted" as chars ... If I type the string into an editor and copy it via CTRL+C / CTRL+V into the input field for folders in Bridger, everything works fine.Is this a bug?

Hi, Please can you help me about that?I  need to know how put an image in real Size.the program scale my image, but I need to cut it. is it possibile?thanks in advance for your cooperation.

Here's an in-depth comparison of PhotoLab 2 and Adobe Bridge/Adobe Camera Raw:https://photoperformance.photos/uncategorized/dxo-photolab-2-vs-adobe-bridge-for-editing-raw-files/

Bridge CS5 v4.1.0.54 is launching when I startup my computer even though I do not have this setting checked in preferences, it is not in my startup group in Windows 10 nor set in the registry..Why is this happening and how can I get it to stop?I am running Windows 10 Home version 1903Thanks

Yes, as soon as I open Bridge it pops up a window saying that Bridge is blocked, and asking if I want to send a report, the window ask for my email address and then Bridge close.Any idea whats going on ?Thanks in advance

hiadobe bridge shows a circle, square, & triangle in the preview pane instead of showing the selected image. some images will render correctly, when selected, others wont. the same image that renders correctly in the preview pane one time may show as a square, circle & triangle the next time bridge is opened.software rendering is checked in preferences & i have cleaned out all the cache. all the files are tiffs. my computer is a 27 inch imac running os 10.12.6

I am seeking ways to make Bridge function faster.I have what I assume to be a large collection (450 images)Whenever I do anything with multiple files (add keywords to a selection of 130 files, for example) it takes 4-5 minutes, during which thumbnails disappear, reappear, disappear, and reappear many times.I am using Bridge ver 9.1.0.338Mac Pro6-Core Intel Xeon E5  Processor Speed: 3.5 GHz  L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB  L3 Cache: 12 MB  Memory: 64 GB1TB SSDAMD FirePro D500 VRAM 3GBAre there any Bridge features I can turn off the improve performance?Do I need to upgrade my hardware or graphics card?

Help! I've been using Bridge ever since I took photography seriously. And just recently when renaming a batch I loose all the edits I've done with Camera Raw. I checked all the settings and everything seems to be the same I had them before. Luckily I back up periodically and I was able to recover days worth of editing. But have been trying to rename different ways and the result is the same, I loose all the edits, all files go back to original as if I didn't work on them at all. Anyone is having the same problem? I am in the CC program so the apps are up to date. Maybe from now on, I will be renaming the files first, so that I don't have this problem again but my latest project needs to be renamed and I am unsure how to get around the problem at hand...?

I use the "Person Shown" field in Bridge. Bridge interprets this field different than other software which is creating issues for me.  Names are separated by semicolons which Bridge interprets as line breaks.  Other programs write the metadata as one line separated by semicolons.Person A; Person B; Person CBridge<rdf:li>Person A</rdf:li>     <rdf:li>Person B</rdf:li>     <rdf:li>Person C</rdf:li>Photomechanic<rdf:li>Person A; Person B; Person C</rdf:li>the workaround is to put the names in quotes in Bridge "Person A; Person B; Person C" but this is a laborious task to go through on every image so that it is compatible with all of the software that requires semicolons.