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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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    pburke2
    Participating Frequently
    January 4, 2014

    just installed this CC thing and the very FIRST thing I wan to do forces me back to CS6. Really? I am sure glad I got this at academic discount, because it is completely useless without a Flickr export module.

    Omke Oudeman
    Omke Oudeman
    Participating Frequently
    January 5, 2014

    because it is completely useless without a Flickr export module.

    There are some protests at Photoshop Family:

    http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/please_restore_export_panel_in_bridge_cc?utm_content=reply_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reply_notification#reply_13558911

    Inhere your comments are more likely to reach Adobe instead of this user to user Forum.

    Having said that I can imagine your disappointment but I strongly disagree with the qualification as 'useless'

    There is a lot you can do with Bridge and if you make a setting for the image processor you will have the option to prepare all files for every form of output, you only need one or two steps more for export to whatever you like.

    Also the option for export to social media was very limited due to rights management and only available in 1 or 2 countries.

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    pburke2
    Participating Frequently
    January 6, 2014

    Let me qualify the "useless:"  I can do everything I want in Bridge CS6, I cannot do everyting I want in Bridge CC. At that point Bridge CC becomes useless software to me, since I have a perfect alternative, the to me fully functional old version of the software. I am also using Photoshop CS6 again, because I have yet to figure out how to launch Photoshop CC from Bridge CS6. Apparently not much of a loss there either, although I do like the Camera Raw as filter feature, the main reason I moved to CC.

    Those "extra steps" to export to Flickr or other sites are batch tagging and assigning to sets and other organizational features. This saved significant time over the rather crude standalone Flickr uploader and simple browser based uploading and tagging, which is plain awful. Bridge CS6 made all that much more efficient. A real time saver, not available in CC.

    Availability of features in other countries doesn't matter in this context. I am not in another country. I paid for a license to get this new and advanced version of the Creative Suite and the first thing I try to do is not possible any longer. That's what matters here. I know I can still get my photos where I want them, but it won't be in Bridge CC. 

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      erikjonsson
      Participant
      December 4, 2013

      Is this a joke? How can they take it out? Along with developing settings copy/paste its one of my most frequently used functions.

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        zwergenmeister
        Participant
        October 22, 2013

        Hello,

        please wrote all in this Ticket at Adobe Feedback maybe it change something.

        http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/please_restore_export_panel_in_bridge_cc

        Thx

        Johnkenobi
        Johnkenobi
        Known Participant
        October 19, 2017

        hello.. I just updated to bridge 2018, I want no margins in my pdf, but can only choose a minimum of 1 margin and 1 row.. even if their measurements are 0 cm, I get a very thin white margin on all 4 sides. I cannot choose no background color?? This didn't happen in previous editions, with the same document, filling precisely the space of any papersize? I cannot find the answer in your forum..

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        Abhishek.Seth
        Adobe Employee
        November 2, 2017

        Hi Johnny,

        If you do not need any margins, please move all 4 sliders to 0 or enter 0 in the text box in margins section. To choose background color, please use the "Document" accordian which is just above the "Grids and Margins" accordian. In case you face any issues, please let us know.

        Regards,

        Abhishek Seth.

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        Andreasp123
        Participant
        September 19, 2013

        Doesnt CC support the old version too?

        I can choose to install Photoshop CS6 but im not getting that option with bridge.. Anyone know if bridge will install with CS6 if you have Bridge CC?

        Missing my export panel!

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        Anonymous
        September 19, 2013

        You can install CS6 if you subscribe to CC.

        angusm83811996
        angusm83811996
        Participant
        November 1, 2017

        I use CS6, and while the Export tab is still there, the options in it are now greyed out, and unusable.

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        Dark Light One
        Participant
        September 11, 2013

        Just adding my vote for brining back the Export panel. That was the first thing I looked for when I launched Bridge CC. Please bring it back.

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          multipraktik
          Participant
          July 31, 2013

          I'm also frustrated that the export panel isn't there anymore. Bring it back!!

            philipking
            philipking
            Inspiring
            August 1, 2013

            I'm amazed it's been taken out. I have thousands of graphics files in Illustrator and InDesign and exporting these to image files would be quite tedious without Bridge export. The export scripts allowed saving all pages of a document to various formats with very little effort. Surely this is one of the key functions of Bridge. Sticking with CS6 version until this is resolved.

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            AnnShelbourne
            Inspiring
            August 1, 2013

            As far as I know, the Export Panel never caused either slow-downs or crashes in Bridge CS 6 and no valid reason has yet been given by the Bridge Team for its removal from Bridge CC .

            The attitude by some at Adobe that Bridge is "Free" and therefore is not worthy of investment dollars is rendered nonsensical with the advent of CC Subscriptions.

            None of the Adobe apps. are individual revenue-earners any longer and all are needed by Subscribers if their subscription is to have any value for them.

            Bridge is the vital link between the other apps. and should therefore be receiving its full share of resources and development dollars.

            I blame Adobe's individual Product Managers for their failure to look beyond the budgetary needs of their own domains and to act instead as a TEAM to develop Bridge to its full potential as a tool which could hugely enhance the integration, efficiency and productivity of ALL of the individual programs.

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            joshmayes
            Participant
            July 31, 2013

            This is certainly one of the top frustrations (of several) I am finding with the upgrade process from CS6.  The Export panel was vital to my workflow also, for batch resizing and exporting of images in the background without opening Photoshop.  I had saved numerous presets which made it very handy for me to create the needed derivitive files with simple drag and drop.  I suppose I will keep using CS6 until Adobe gets this functionality restored.

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            Mike Saemisch
            Participant
            July 26, 2013

            Ouch. This is sending back to Bridge CS6 which was my primarily file organzation and processing tool. I have various Export panel presets for the various resolutions and metadata I need for several applications (web, TV, or sale) that were very convenient to drop photos into as I sorted the files, and then preform the exports. The process files option is unacceptably inconvenient for the various needs I have. Now I am wondering if I should get my CC subscription canceled asap while I can.

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            taylorcreativeco
            Participant
            July 20, 2013

            How can a decision like this even happen? Is there a word for way-beyond-moronic? Adobe, how did the team that made this decision think we would react...f*%#$ tards!

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              multipraktik
              Participant
              June 28, 2013

              BRING IT BACK! wtf? the same thing goes for timeline horizontal scroller in premiere pro ...takin out features like that?

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