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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.

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    Halo Photography Ltd
    Halo Photography Ltd
    Known Participant
    November 5, 2016

    Still having to work in Bridge CS6. I was hoping that CC 2017 might reinstall the export feature but my hopes are dashed. As a business we cant use Lightroom. The catalogue system doesn't work for our business model and image processor locks up photoshop wasting hours of production time.

    It wasn't perfect and needed alot more development but it worked and was extremely useful. You could cue conversions, continue to use Bridge and Photoshop while it worked in the background.

    Its a shame Adobe are obviously focusing on the hobbiest market because no professional photographer has time to sit and stare at a screen when processing 1000s of photos.

      zyvervenz
      zyvervenz
      Participant
      February 5, 2016

      Here is the fix that I got after chatting with their Customer Support.

      (14:13:10) megupta said to you:

      Can we reset Bridge Preferences?

      (14:13:23) You said to megupta:

      sure

      (14:14:36) megupta said to you:

      Can you click on Bridge Icon with Alt+Ctrl+Shift key


      then it runs perfectly

      and it solves my problem and it appears again Tool>Photoshop>Image Processor...

      Hope this helps.

      SergeB1975
      SergeB1975
      Participant
      February 6, 2016

      Which Bridge Icon is it meant to click? I tried and it didn't work.
      Bridge has been working fine until today when after restart Tool>Photoshop>Image Processor has just disappeared. How to get it back?

      zyvervenz
      zyvervenz
      Participant
      February 7, 2016

      on the dock

      here...

      They said it is corrupted preference so u need to reset it by

      click on Bridge Icon with Alt+Ctrl+Shift key


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      Carl Neumann
      Participant
      September 13, 2015

      Well I just started using Bridge CC. Have been using Lightroom but it's very slow to import. Bridge is much faster. However, not haveing the functionality to export like you can in Lightroom is a total bummer.

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      jsmarsh42
      Participating Frequently
      September 23, 2015

      At the top of this thread, there is a line that claims that there are 68 replies to the original post regarding the absence of the Bridge Export function.  the last post recorded was Sept 13, 2015.  However between 9/15 and 6/30 there are no posts recorded.  What is interesting is that I have received in email since June 30th 10 posts that have not been recorded in this thread.

      It seems that the admin of this thread has been kept busy removing posts he/she doesn't like.  Does Adobe management know about this?

      Please restore the Export function to Adobe Bridge.

      Take a look at this thread:  

      Bridge: Restore Export Panel In Bridge

      JaysonM-Y
      JaysonM-Y
      Participating Frequently
      November 9, 2015

      Bumping for trouble. This was a good feature.

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        Mr Gawrjuhs
        Participating Frequently
        May 26, 2015

        I've also been looking for the Export panel in Bridge CC.

        I have a customer who wants to sort photos, assign metadata to images and then upload them to Flickr.

        I know that they could use Lightroom - but even I find the interface of that application daunting - so I'm searching for as simple a solution as possible.

        Watching this video  - Upload images to Facebook, Flickr, and Photoshop.com from Adobe Bridge - YouTube -  demonstrates perfectly how easy it was to achieve the above task using Adobe Bridge CS5.

        I don't recall receiving any market research survey from Adobe asking whether I used the Export panel in Bridge, or whether I would miss it if they were to remove it.

        Given that Adobe have already made the Output module/panel available as a separate Bridge CC plug-in, surely it wouldn't take too long for their engineers to create an Export panel plug-in too!?

        Or am I expecting too much for the monthly fee that Adobe happily take from me for my Creative Cloud subscription?

        Jonathan Beth
        Jonathan Beth
        Known Participant
        May 28, 2015

        Derek -

             My take is that Adobe is pushing Lightroom to be the main editing tool before  you jump to Photoshop and back to Lightroom.

             Lightroom has an Export tool so you will have to go through the learning curve, for import, develop and export. I think that from Lightroom you can upload to Flicker.

              For my self I use Bridge to "get the images from the camera" and for the initial ratings. The reason is that Lightroom does not allow you to copy images

              only to move or remove them. It  also has a different hierarchy structure between the  folders.

               Bridge is by far easier to navigate between folders.

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          Mr Gawrjuhs
          Participating Frequently
          May 29, 2015

          Jonbeth -

          Thanks for your response.

          I've used Lightroom, and yes, it can upload directly to Flickr. However - as I mentioned in my original reply - I'm looking for a simpler solution for my client.

          Many replies in this thread seem to focus on Photoshop vs Lightroom for editing images.

          I'm not interested in that argument.

          When Bridge was introduced into Adobe Creative Suite, it was described as the "glue" that bound all their apps together.

          Given that a sites like Flickr and Facebook can accept video files as well as still images, the removal of the Export panel from Bridge seems an even odder decision for Adobe to make.

          Yes, I'm aware that I could export video files via Adobe Media Encoder directly to Flickr, but doesn't that just double my workload?

          I want to be able to select and upload a variety of content created with, or enhanced using, Adobe Creative Cloud software to third party websites in as few steps as possible.

          The Export panel in Bridge provided this solution, but Adobe has taken it away from us.

          Let's hope that they see the error of their ways, and reinstate it soon.

          JaysonM-Y
          JaysonM-Y
          Participating Frequently
          October 22, 2014

          Ya done goofed

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            eXwoLL_
            Participant
            October 25, 2014

            Nice, now Bridge is a useless piece of sh*t!. I used the export panel to create thumbnails for clients from my collections, how the hell i´ll do that now?. Ain´t gonna buy that Lightroom shit only for that function, gonna download a pirate copy. Stupid Adobe cripling their products.

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            nekcih
            Participating Frequently
            October 17, 2014

            Adobe devs, this is garbage.  You gotta get the export feature back in there!  Bridge is pointless without it. 

              Soben
              Soben
              Participant
              September 5, 2014

              *Bump*

              I find this very funny that no one at Adobe seems to know where the Export functionality ran off too?

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              AH_Photography
              Participating Frequently
              August 16, 2014

              *BUMP*

              My work flow is still crippled by the removal of the Export feature since the introduction of Bridge CC.

              This seriously needs to be brought back into Bridge CC 2014!!

              I still remember all my photographer colleagues annoyance when Adobe removed contact sheets (only to release it as a plugin from all the hate they received).

              Removing functionality & features is not progress Adobe!

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              Oddvar Haraldson
              Participating Frequently
              August 2, 2014

              This is very, very disappointing. Does anybody know if the added Output module adds all the old functionality of the old CS6 export? I feel that if I install Bridge CC I will mess up my computer and give myself a cerebral hemorrhage.

              Install Adobe Output Module

              I have a lot of Export pre-sets in CS6 that I use for web design (jpeg with a set dimension). Will Bridge CC use the old Export module settings or do I need to create all my presets again?

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              RichardMuller
              Participant
              July 30, 2014

              I'm Cameraman and Editor, as well as a DIT and I use a range of software for different purposes and Bridge's export feature was the fastest way to turn around Canon RAW from timelapse material in to easily usable Tiffs or Jpegs.  I've only just installed the update to bridge on my tower (had an early CC release) and I'm horrified at the missing export panel.

              I've tried the other two options, Lightroom and Image processor and they're both at best, only half as fast as the old approach. 

              I really hope that Adobe do reinstate it as I'll no longer be using Bridge, in fact, I might skip premiere and CC as part of my time-lapse workflow altogether if this remains the case.

              Richard Muller

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