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Steffen1601
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June 20, 2013
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Export Panel missing in Bridge CC

  • June 20, 2013
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I used to ahve an Export Panel in Bridge CC which I used to export several RAW or PSD photos to JEPG, with the upgrade to CC it's gone. How am I supposed to export several photos to JPEG? One by one in Photoshop? Really?

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    Correct answer ChasLaird

    The way I create JPGs from Bridge is to use “Image Processor.”  Select all of the images in Bridge that you want to export (convert to JPEGs and output).  Then go to the Tools menu and select Photoshop and Image Processor.  Photoshop will open and present you with a dialog box that allows you to save the images in several different formats (JPEGs, PSD, or TIFF or all three at once), JPEG quality, resized or not resized, color profile changed to sRGB or left the way they were, etc.  Just select the options you want and click OK.  This works great regardless of whether you’ve selected one image or 100s of images in Bridge.  This process does use Photoshop, but you don’t have to do anything in Photoshop except select the options you want in the Image Processor dialog box.

    One caveat is that I don’t have PS CC yet and, therefore, can verify that Photoshop/Bridge CC has the Image Processor option.  Would someone with CC please verify this for us?  Thanks.

    35 replies

    willwenzel
    willwenzel
    Known Participant
    September 9, 2020

    It's Back!  Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've been waiting for!  Adobe has quietly re-introduced the Export Panel in version 10.1.1 (Sep. 2020 release), and it's awesome, and much faster than using the image processor (which has to open every image in photoshop).

      Stephen Marsh
      Community Expert
      Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      August 19, 2019

      I don’t have the link at hand as I’m on my phone so I’ll post it later, however there is a script for Bridge to export out JPEG files from forum member Lumigraphics (Bridge Utility Script v1 or v2 beta).

      Bridge Utility Script Pack

      Utility Script Pack 2.0 beta available

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        Lumigraphics
        Legend
        August 19, 2019

        You can download my script pack from my dropbox

        Dropbox - Utility Script Pack.zip - Simplify your life

        This is a late beta, most likely the GM/release unless any showstopper bugs turn up. See the included help file for instructions.

        PietroViti
        PietroViti
        Participant
        June 2, 2018

        Not working now (2018), also the Image Processor is no more in Bridge. Any useful solution for quick exporting in Bridge ?

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        Lumigraphics
        Legend
        August 10, 2018

        Image Processor - you need the matching version of Photoshop installed

        Image Processor Pro - third-party fork of Dr. Brown's original

        Camera RAW

        My JPEG Multiexport script - Bridge: Restore Export Panel In Bridge | Photoshop Family Customer Community

        Halo Photography Ltd
        Halo Photography Ltd
        Known Participant
        November 3, 2017

        So now export has stopped working as off the 31st Oct 17 on CS6 with zero comment from Adobe. There is an akward work around seen here,

        Bridge CS6 Export Panel has stopped working overnight

        This is ridiculous. If I bought a camera and one of the modes stopped working

          Halo Photography Ltd
          Halo Photography Ltd
          Known Participant
          October 19, 2017

          The October Update still shows no sign of this being re installed our a replacement. All those saying Image Processor or Raw is a better solution really dont understand how much time and workflow this saved. It wasnt perfect but it worked and allowed you to multi task and maximise your time. Converting a finished wedding while contining to work through another set or using photoshop at the same time. None of which you can do with Image Processor or Raw.

            Ray--T
            Ray--T
            Participating Frequently
            June 28, 2017

            Very old thread but want to add another vote for Adobe to bring back the export function in Bridge. Very frustrating that such a useful tool was removed.

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              Rustyoldford
              Participant
              June 2, 2017

              This does not help me. I use the export panel to regularly activate an action in Photoshop from Bridge. In older versions i would have various actions saved for watermarking etc.

              Adobe please stop removing features, and bring this back!

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                Verimage
                Participant
                March 24, 2017

                Image processor is a complete joke. It lacks the most basic feature - resizing constrained and long side ...

                Completely useless, can not understand how Adobe folks can miss something like that.

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                  davidf87701789
                  Participant
                  March 27, 2017

                  Indeed

                  I want to add my voice to this as well -I've just got CC after having had CS6 for years and am on the verge of uninstalling the new one and cancelling my subscription

                  Lightroom and its catalogues is just too cumbersome and unusable

                  It seems that many of us just need a simple 'Export to Hard Drive' option

                  Come on Adobe, look after your customers before you start losing them...

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                  Silvano De Matteis
                  Participant
                  December 16, 2016

                  I have the same problem but solved as I will stay with my CS6 ( Photoshop & Bridge ) . But in General.. to me the elimination of the export panel is a unfriendly act from the AdoBe strategy... I feel that everything they do now is only for there're optimization of profit. I'm looking for other solutions.. and as I'm teacher I'll try to find other solutions for my student's too.

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                  nekcih
                  Participating Frequently
                  December 16, 2016

                  It's not a perfect solution but I discovered a pretty good workflow that gets me by...

                  1. Select all the images that you want to export

                  2. Hit the camera raw icon

                  3. Select all the images in the left pane of camera raw

                  4. Click the Save Image button In the lower left.

                  You'll be presented with a window that does a lot of what the old export-to-disk plugin did, including resizing, stripping meta data, etc.

                  I hope that helps!

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                    AdamZ1977
                    Participating Frequently
                    December 16, 2016

                    The Camera Raw Save Image option is extremely slow though (when you're dealing with 100s of 40Mb RAW images).  The CS6 Export to Hard Drive feature used the background-generated previews when you were exporting to certain lower resolutions thus taking seconds to create a ton of web-quality JPGs instead of a few minutes per image.

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                    michless
                    Participant
                    November 7, 2016

                    I still cannot believe that they haven't put the Export Panel back into Bridge 2017. It was the easiest way and most efficient (for me) to export many pictures at once. PLEASE ABODE, bring back the Export panel!!!!  I don't want to have to open up Photoshop or Lightroom, it's a PITA!

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