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August 26, 2025
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Bridge 2022 versions 12-13 were better at keyboard based file organization

  • August 26, 2025
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As a bridge user for over 5 years I can't help but complain about no longer having Bridge 2022(12.01, 12.0.2, 12.0.3, and 13.0.1) available to download via the creative cloud app. I take a great deal of bracketed images that I manually group via the shift key + arrow keys and the Command+G Grouping keyboard shortcut. In the newer versions of Bridge this workflow is virtually impossible without countless mouse clicks instead of using the arrow keys. As you group(Command+G) your photos and press the right arrow key to then group your next photo group your cursor gets placed back at the origin of the files instead of on the next image. For Example: You've just completed 20 photo groups and are about to group the next photo set. You hit the right arrow key and now your cursor is back at photo group 1 instead of being at the next photo. Now you must arrow key over the next 20 photos or take your hand off the keyboard and use your mouse to click the next photo group.

 

I have submitted countless user complaints to adobe via Bridge yet still this issue has not been solved for me. It seems rather simple as someone has programmed the cursor(or pointer) value in the list to reset to 0 after every group creation rather than picking up where it left off.  The automatic HDR/Bracket stack still is virtually unsuable and leads to more time wasted unstacking incorrectly stacked images. 

 

I'd greatly apprecaite anyone's insight for improving these features in future bridge updates, or at least getting access back to the previous versions of bridge where this feature works properly.

 

Thank you!

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Participant
February 14, 2026

Bridge utterly destroyed the stacking feature. I shoot a few hundred HDR brackets per day and Bridge is my lifeline software. New versions don’t even allow me to click and drag to select stacks. WHY WOULD THEY REMOVE THAT FUNCTIONALITY?!
 

Happy to try and share 2022 version with you if we can find a way