Br 12 users beware!

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December 27, 2023
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Tools>Photoshop has been deprecated right before your eyes.

Go to your CC app and look for an alternative version of Photoshop (23.5.5)

If you have Photoshop 2022 installed on your machines DO NOT uninstall it. It is the only version of Ps that Bridge can access via Tools>Photoshop and has been made unavailable by Adobe

Feel free to make as much noise as possible about this.

P.S. I have a workaround. More later

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Lumigraphics

Legend

There are multiple workarounds for this. I use Bridge 12 in production with the latest Photoshop and it all works fine.

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BruceVIAuthor

Inspiring

Please confirm. When you select an asset in Br 12 and then invoke Tools>Photoshop>Batch that Br 12 launches the most recent release version of Ps?

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Lumigraphics

Legend

There is a workaround which involves editing some Adobe files. I don't know that Adobe wants it posted on here but yes, it is possible. I also have a script that I wrote, which does the same thing. I use this every day in production as a working professional product photographer.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mg817g9a9ymbasi/AADTmXUVxmFfM58bcyYE7yiwa?dl=0

Download the Utility Script Pack and drop the entire folder into Bridge Scripts folder. This adds (among numerous other things) a Batch command to the contextual menu, that will open items in the latest version of Bridge. No hackery of Adobe files required.

Its F/OSS, Apache-licensed, so feel free to adapt it to your needs.

gary_sc

Community Expert

It's an interesting assumption by this community beginner to assume that this is an evil plot, but it isn't. It's the same progression that's been in place for many years: Two years of past applications are available after updating. This is the result of a legal issue (I do not know the details) that occurred a number of years ago.

If you are using Bridge 2022, you do need PS 2022, as that is a paired set. Bridge and Photoshop are (in effect) a tandem set — you need paired years.