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eor67340183
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May 21, 2024
Question

Adobe Bridge Labels and ratings CUSTOM hotkeys & colors

  • May 21, 2024
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Regarding: Adobe Bridge Labels and ratings...

Please add the ability to create:

1. Extra custom labels custom.

2. Custom colors.

3. And custom hotkeys.

 

Even though I use a Stream Deck for custom key mapping, I also have hundreds of custom keyboard shortcuts memorized for dozens of applications.  Hotkey customization/remapping is a basic feature of any application!

 

Questions:

- Why was CTRL+# selected as the hotkeys with no option for keyboard customization? 

- Why are there only five colors??

- Why doesn't the fifth color have a keyboard shortcut???

 

Our team has wanted this for 6 years and yet we naively presumed others would've reported this oversight by now.  If it took one of our team 6 years to post about it, surely others want this too.  Our prevailing question has been, why didn't any of the Bridge developers consider the importance of custom hotkeys & label colors????  Especially given that every modern application has shortcut remapping and customization. 

 

Please take an easy company win and add this for Bridge users.  It has been remarkably frustrating as we use Adobe Bridge for the categorization of more than a hundred thousand files.

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    lyraw82201145
    Participant
    August 28, 2025

    Please, for the love of God. Add the option to edit Labels to the "Edit" menu. You could block the modification of the default ones and add a button to create new Labels with a color and name defined by the user.

    johnf39295821
    johnf39295821
    Participant
    October 7, 2024

    Did you know that if you are in fullscreen mode when reviewing photos in Bridge, you dont have to use the multi-keystoke combo including the command key? You can just press the relevant number on the keyboard? I know not exactly what you're asking but it definitely helped mey not having to press two keys. Daft that you cannot just assign whatever keys you want. 

    gary_sc
    Community Expert
    gary_scCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 7, 2024

    @johnf39295821 interesting trick, I did not know that.

     

    Because the Keyboard Shortcuts can be a bit intimidating, I created a video on how to change from two hands to one finger for both labels and ratings. 

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0PO-rnn0uE&t=22s

     

     

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      XynnieGloom
      Participant
      August 17, 2025

      Wow, thank you! What a relief it is to only have a one key rating system!

      "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt." ~ William Shakespeare
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      Lumigraphics
      Legend
      May 22, 2024

      Labels are not stored in a file as colors, they are stored as text. You can create as many labels as you want but you will be limited to the preset colors. I'd like Adobe to integrate with Apple's Finder tags but there is zero chance of that. Windows being backwards, doesn't even have labels.

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      eor67340183Author
      Participant
      May 21, 2024

      Regarding #3 - Keyboard shortcuts

      I just found the new keyboard shortcuts remapping window in Adobe Bridge, after updating v14, under Edit >> Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+K). 

       

      So, additional feature request...

      #4. Reference the Keyboard Shortcuts in the Labels settings window.

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