Adobe Bridge Labels and ratings CUSTOM hotkeys & colors

Report · May 21, 2024

Regarding: Adobe Bridge Labels and ratings...

Please add the ability to create:

1. Extra custom labels custom.

2. Custom colors.

3. And custom hotkeys.

Even though I use a Stream Deck for custom key mapping, I also have hundreds of custom keyboard shortcuts memorized for dozens of applications. Hotkey customization/remapping is a basic feature of any application!

Questions:

- Why was CTRL+# selected as the hotkeys with no option for keyboard customization?

- Why are there only five colors??

- Why doesn't the fifth color have a keyboard shortcut???

Our team has wanted this for 6 years and yet we naively presumed others would've reported this oversight by now. If it took one of our team 6 years to post about it, surely others want this too. Our prevailing question has been, why didn't any of the Bridge developers consider the importance of custom hotkeys & label colors???? Especially given that every modern application has shortcut remapping and customization.

Please take an easy company win and add this for Bridge users. It has been remarkably frustrating as we use Adobe Bridge for the categorization of more than a hundred thousand files.

Report · May 21, 2024

Regarding #3 - Keyboard shortcuts

I just found the new keyboard shortcuts remapping window in Adobe Bridge, after updating v14, under Edit >> Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+K).

So, additional feature request...

#4. Reference the Keyboard Shortcuts in the Labels settings window.

Report · May 22, 2024

Labels are not stored in a file as colors, they are stored as text. You can create as many labels as you want but you will be limited to the preset colors. I'd like Adobe to integrate with Apple's Finder tags but there is zero chance of that. Windows being backwards, doesn't even have labels.

Report · Oct 07, 2024

Did you know that if you are in fullscreen mode when reviewing photos in Bridge, you dont have to use the multi-keystoke combo including the command key? You can just press the relevant number on the keyboard? I know not exactly what you're asking but it definitely helped mey not having to press two keys. Daft that you cannot just assign whatever keys you want.

Report · Oct 07, 2024

@johnf39295821 interesting trick, I did not know that.

Because the Keyboard Shortcuts can be a bit intimidating, I created a video on how to change from two hands to one finger for both labels and ratings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0PO-rnn0uE&t=22s