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Bridge really free?

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May 24, 2019
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Hi, I was looking into a way to better organise my images, currently scattered all over the place, and was pointed to Bridge from a friend.

I cannot install it since my Mac OS is too old, before I update the entire system though, may I ask two dummy questions:

- is Bridge (according to Wikipedia) really free or part of some paid package?

- is it a standalone software or some cloud-based, internet-connected application?

- ok, this is a little vage, but does the community think this will be on the market for another few years? (the point is, from Apple I sadly made the experience, that I spent months learning to use a software, only to see that Apple discontinues it a year later for some hobo marketing reason).

Thanks to everyone giving me a valuable hint!

Best regards

Helga

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helgaf81740745Author

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Hey both of you, thanks for these information. That sounds great. Currently I want to use it solely for importing images, batch processing them in terms of writing metadata to them, also issuing key words for later searches. A photographer recommended this method to me as I am not stuck later on with a propriatary database for all my images, but instead write meta data straight into the images themselves. I wonder lf for later retrieval/search I could also use Bridge (indexing these keywords I just issued) or if I would need another Adobe product (as I said, I am new to this, so a search without any editing is enough at this stage).

have a great weekend!

Helga

Abambo

Community Expert

For photos there is also Lightroom Classic or Lightroom. Lightroom Classic builds a (proprietary) database. That makes access faster. But it’s a complete product and has features that bridge does not have. Bridge is a kind of super finder.

Try out bridge, see if it works for you. As we are not knowing Adobe‘s future plans, I suppose that bridge continues to evolve and getting new features. Most of the extras are, however, working together with other Adobe products.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

AxelMatt

Community Expert

helgaf81740745 schrieb
- is Bridge (according to Wikipedia) really free or part of some paid package?

Yes it's free.

https://prodesigntools.com/free-adobe-bridge-cc.html

Digital asset management software | Download free Adobe Bridge trial

helgaf81740745 schrieb
- is it a standalone software or some cloud-based, internet-connected application?
- ok, this is a little vage, but does the community think this will be on the market for another few years? (the point is, from Apple I sadly made the experience, that I spent months learning to use a software, only to see that Apple discontinues it a year later for some hobo marketing reason).

It is a standalone software.

But... Nobody can say if it's on the market for years.

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Daniel E Lane

Inspiring

Bridge has been around a long time. It's not like the software that disappears after a year. I've been using it for around 13 years now. I don't see them getting rid of it anytime soon. its a great way to organize files across multiple Adobe applications. Hence the name Bridge. It is the Bridge between things like Photoshop and InDesign, or Premiere and After Effects. Great way to organize and get things from one application to another. And yes, it is free.

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