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peterb86513089
peterb86513089
Inspiring
June 24, 2025
Question

How to search in the Adobe product documentation?

  • June 24, 2025
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I am trying to seacrh through the online Adobe documentsion, for Bridge and Photoshop.  For example I am on the "Adobe Photoshop Learn & Support" page and there is a Search Adobe Support box where I expect I should be able to type a phrase and then see matches for that phrase within the Photoshop online documentation. But the search results are not limited to just the Photoshop documentaion. In fact I stuggle to find anything useful in the seacrh results.

My question: How can I constrain the searches to only look at the Photoshop (or Bridge) documentation? I know (or strongly suspect) that what I am interested in is in there somewhere I just don't know where it is. And I am not interested in all of Adobe's other information - just what is in the product documentation.

Thanks,
Peter

PS, I know this is not a Photoshop specific question but I could not find a comminity category that look suitable for such a generic question. Sorry.

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Kevin Stohlmeyer
Community Expert
Kevin StohlmeyerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 24, 2025

Hi @peterb86513089 when searching the helpx.adobe.com site you can filter after the search results come up to localize to "Support" technical documentation, "Learn" tutorials, etc.

Adding the product name helps focus the results also: 

 

 

 

peterb86513089
peterb86513089Author
Inspiring
June 24, 2025

Hey, thanks for that. I had tried that - and I will give another go - but found it still grabbed  to much (unwanted) information from everywhere. Years (and years) ago when Adobe produced PDF documentation for Photoshop I could download that documentation and use Acrobat to read and search, and that search would be limited to just the product documenation. I guess part of my misunderstanding, now that I look at it, was the assumption that when on the "Adobe Bridge Learn & Support" page the Adobe search box was for that page (and all it contained). Now I see that the search box is for the whole of Adobe and not just the page (and it's contents). Not what I wanted. Wasting way too much time reading through lists of search responses that are no where what I am looking for. I like to use the documentation for reference, for when I forgot the specifics. Now I can't even find the references anymore.

CMass
CMass
Legend
June 24, 2025

Hey @peterb86513089,

I also wanted to add our user Guides for Photoshop and Bridge below. Hope this helps. 🙂 

Photoshop: https://adobe.ly/4kW6MnE
Bridge: https://adobe.ly/4kW6GMO


^CM

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