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Export Panel missing in Bridge CC

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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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Steffen1601Author

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Well, for now I am using Picasa from Google to export to JPEG. Works like a charme, plus it stamps all pictures with a watermark.

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Limbo_Design

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Shame on you Adobe. You've now added time to my already busy schedule. How about I take away, oh I don't know, your car and say, Ok, now get to work?

You've given us tools to work and design with. We adapt to software upgrades, to make our time more efficient, and then, YOU JUST COME AND TAKE ONE OF OUR TOOLS AWAY.

I have clients that need updated proofs by which I export directly from Bridge. Now I have to F*&%78 export to LR, or Photoshop, 35 images at a time, and create a web gallery, all the while, now I have to make sure all are the latest copies. Yep, you've done me worse than a Junior High girlfriend.

I'll send you a bill for my and my clients time lost,

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sonicdee654

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You are so right, come one Adobe fix this fast, or is this a new attempt to make us buy lightroom ??

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Steffen1601Author

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At least I am not alone with this complaint. I work in the software industry myself, our policy usually is to provide MORE functionality with a new version and not take functionality away. At this point the new CC suite is garbage.

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hlef

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In addition to what others have said, this was very useful for exporting to Facebook or Flickr. I sure hope Adobe adds this back soon!

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hlef

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And, for what I need, Bridge is much easier to use than Lightroom, which does have export capabilities...

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ykamei

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I need the Export Panel too.

I use Photoshop CS6 and Bridge CC on retina display.

Bridge CS6 do not support the hidpi mode.

So I want to use Bridge CC.

I just want to change the size as same ratio.

But Image Processor needs both width and height.

Bridge CS6 only needs one of those.

In addition, I found Image Processor did not compress JPEG Images efficiently than Bridge CS6 even as same option.

I must select worse image quality for getting same file size on Photoshop CS6.

Perhaps, Photoshop CC's Image Processor exports more efficiently,

and I should migrate to Photoshop CC.

But I cannot do it in this moment...

So if adobe can, I really want adobe to add the Export Panel dialog to Bridge CC again.

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In addition, I found Bridge CC cannot export PDF files.

Cause of Contact Sheet on Photoshop do not have preview function, this is not a substitute for Bridge CS6.

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Omke Oudeman

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How am I supposed to export several photos to JPEG? One by one in Photoshop? Really?

To be honest, I never saw the benefit of the export panel in its current state. It had far to less options for me.

Remember that for a simple task as saving as jpeg you always had the option to use the Image Processor. (menu tools / Photoshop / Image Processor)

But it seems you never used a batch command in Photoshop? This can be extremely helpful and very productional, yo can create an action by recording your steps in the action panel and use batch to play the action on a bunch of files selected in Bridge ( menu Tools / Photoshop / Batch).

With the current option to insert a conditional in an action (If-Then-Else) you can create a complicated action in PS for both landscape and portrait and then create a new action that gives you the option to assign both action (if landscape then play 'action landscape' (your action name), else play 'portrait'

It needs a tiny bit of study but it is not that difficult and as said, very productional.

For instance, I have several action for resizing. I also combined these with different sizes and using a conditional action. I select a bunch of files and with the batch command in Bridge (via tools) the selected images are saved in different sizes and stored in different folders (per size).

A few important rules when creating a save action, don't change the filename, not even touch this field, otherwise all files will end up with the same name and overwrite each other, and when you want to keep the original be sure to not save the changes when closing the document.

Try to discover yourself the enormous amount of options you already have with Image Processor and PS Batch using actions.

Recording an action is simple, create a new action and start playing around, most of your movements (not all) in PS will be recorded and when finished the action one push on the button plays it again and again

Before you start experimenting, be sure to first back up your originals so you can play freely with them without the risk of loosing

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Steffen1601Author

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Thank you for all your replies.

Using Photoshop and batch commands are not going to work for me. In many cases I don't even open the photos in PSCC. I use Bridge to categorize and organize photos or to download them from my camera and then straight export them from RAW to JPEG. So, opening the photos in PSCC adds an additional step .

Adobe detroyed a perfectly great product by taking featues away instead of adding functionality to make things easier. I am exremely disappointed.

Looks like I need to use Camera RAW for now. Let's hope that Adobe doesn't take away the "Save Image" option in there too.

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ChasLairdCorrect answer

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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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Adobe took it out. May be added as a separate download later.

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