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Bridge 2023 Open New Window

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October 18, 2022
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Hello,

I am looking to open muliple windows in Bridge 2023. It used to be under file > new window .

Does anyone know where to find this feature?

Thanks?

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Correct answer VarunVarshney

Hi,

The latest Beta build 14.0.0.57 brings back support for 'Multiple Windows' along with a few new features.
For a complete list of features available in the Beta build, please refer to the community post :
https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/adobe-bridge-beta-is-now-available-14-0-0-57/td-p/13986216

We would love for you to try it out and share feedback.

Regards,
Bridge Team

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freddott

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In my last version of Bridge (13.xx) there was the possibility to open several windows with different folders.

I miss it very much in the newest version...this content window thing is really not helpfull. I need the windows to compare folders. PLEASE built in again!!!!

fotomatt21239347

Participating Frequently

My question for Adobe: Are you listening? It's clear you didn't listen to your users when redesigning this fiasco of an interface. For the record I am a professional photographer and college-level professor teaching Adobe software - especially Bridge for imaging (and all) workflow. I have been using Bridge since the early 2000s (?!) and have developed a workflow reliant on multiple windows. As you can see from all the comments your tab system doesn't work. It's fancy and all but it doesn't work. This is clearly a case of a UX team that is too full of itself to see the damage they did to this important Adobe Asset. I hope Adobe will recognize this, admit its error and rebuild from the 2022 version. It's time for Adobe to toss 2023 version in the bin. Oh, and by the way, keep the Brit on the team. I'm happy to throw things in the bin.

From somewhere on Colorado's Continental Divide...~ fotomattlinktr.ee/fotomatt

Bridge CC Output Module

Participating Frequently

I emphatically agree with fotomatt, am also a professional photographer with 30 years experience and learned Photoshop in 1993. I no longer recommend Bridge to anyone, though it was once a mandatory part of my curriculum. All my smart students have already left Bridge and Lightroom for Capture 1. There was a time when Adobe software was the industry standard, but those days seem to be over.

patrickm2105714

Participating Frequently

Upgrade is a total fail, so many things turned wrong . And so many bugs...my workflow i totaly destroyd.

Do right undo and reset posibilities that has been lost.

Shlomit Heymann

Inspiring

Terrialbe interface change!

Bring back the New Window!

I read all the comments, tried the contents tab, so much work to do in order to make it look like the main window. The only thing that is good about it is that when reopening Bridge it will open all the contents tab. Still, I prefer the old way, and find this change to be a disaster.

Imagine that any operating system will let you open only one window that has all the info you need with side bars etc., and you can't open another that looks the same.

Shlomit

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verylongtimeuser1234

Participating Frequently

This change is one of the worst examples of UI updates I have ever seen. I hate it and it is seriously interfering with how I have been/do/and want to work. I wouldn't recomment Photoshop and Bridge to anyone anymore, even if they paid me to do it.

patrickm2105714

Participating Frequently

Agree total Fiasco!

fotomatt21239347

Participating Frequently

Thank you for asking this. I was pretty bummed to see the ability for multiple windows taken away as this is part of my digital photo workflow. I'm still trying to figure out the content tabs as they seem to update when I click a different folder - versus remaining with the initial folder I try to open in new window. Still experimenting and NOT happy about this major change. Thanks a bunch Adobe. And what's up with the "bin"? You got a Brit working on your UX team? :~.

From somewhere on Colorado's Continental Divide...~ fotomattlinktr.ee/fotomatt

Conrad_C

Community Expert

Do you mean the command File > Move to Bin?

If you are on the Mac (I see it on a Mac), that looks like a UI bug.

If you look at the keyboard shortcut for File > Move to Bin, the shortcut is exactly the same as File > Move to Trash, in the Mac Finder. But the term “bin” is a Windows term, as in the standard Recycle Bin in Windows. So it appears that when they redid the Bridge UI, on the Mac side they forgot to adapt that command to say “Move to Trash”.

So, it isn’t because they have Brits on the team, it’s because they have Windows users 🙂 (or their Mac software testing did not catch this).

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furzle

Inspiring

I am not surprised I'm not alone in being like whaaaaa???? i just want a new bridge window so i can drop and drag when I'm moving files around. now it's an ordeal. I'm not sure what the benefit of this tab situation is going to be but it's already giving me headaches. uuughhh!!! yes, i can pull out the tab, but then i lose the preview , and have to set it all up? I need to have multiple windows with previewing panes in all of them....what a hassle!

If there's a secret shortcut to having new windows in bridge that contain the same workspace settings applied as far as layout, panes and sorting, please share!

neale.smith.photo

Known Participant

Tried the content tab feature, nowhere near as quick or as convenient as ctrl+n, I frequently work with more than one Bridge window open, big oversight for me, I'd probably use the new version if it had this simple feature retained. Failing that, the content tab workaround is way too convoluted. Other than that the 2023 version works fine, I'm not a fan of the aesthetic over the previous version, maybe all these things will get ironed out, until then, it's back to the previous version for me.

csgstudio

Participant

I find the content panels do not work as well for me as having a second window open.

I need to look at them more deeply to see if I can make it work in my workflow.

I can't seem to have filters, thumbnails and previews in the content panels.

JoseGIHP

Participating Frequently

How do we get these "floating content tabs" to display their own menu items such as favorites and metadata? These remain docked to the original tab. Must say, not a big fan of this change.👎

Conrad_C

Community Expert

How do we get these "floating content tabs" to display their own menu items such as favorites and metadata? These remain docked to the original tab.
By @JoseGIHP

Just use basic panel management…pull them apart, drag and drop them together. Although it says “New Content Tab,” it only says Content because that’s the view it defaults to. But as in Photoshop or After Effects, you can add different panels to it by dragging panel tabs around.

Bridge 13 uses the panel model of the Adobe video apps: As you drag a panel tab over a different panel, different “drop zones” highlight. If you watch which drop zone is highlighted, you can control which side the panel docks on; or if you drop in the center than the panels group instead of docking.

In this way, if you want to move the Favorites and Metadata panels to a different tab, you just drag them over there. In my example I floated the new content tab, but you don’t have to float it if you just want to rearrange everything in the same parent window.

Conrad_C

Community Expert

More specifically, you want to choose File > New Content Tab, and if you want to detach that tab and drag it to another location or another display, drag the tab. [UPDATE — August 4, 2023: New Window is back, in a beta version for user testing. For more info, go to: Adobe Bridge Beta is now available (14.0.0.57)]

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polyxo

Inspiring

Ctrl+Shift Tab...
Not a clever chosen Shortcut to create Tabs. Ctrl+Shift Tab reopens just closed Tabs in any Windows Webbrowser. Ctrl+Tab opens a fresh one in all Windows Browsers. Ctrl Shift also in Photoshop is often mapped to redo something, such as Ctrl+Shift+D to re-select an already dropped selection.

Why else ist this relevant? Because we all use Web-Browsers, and Tabs and their shortcuts have been around for more than a decade. Ctrl+T was free in Bridge, but you picked the non-standard combination. This all wouldn't be so bad, if Adobe finally gave us customizable keyboard shortcuts. Of course this didn't happen.

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