Bridge 2023 Open New Window

I went back to Bridge 2022 due to this problem. After paying for 2023 updates and not getting any for about 6 months, I decided to force myself to use Panels instead of Windows. As a result, I am almost crying every time I edit my images nowadays.

Please bring back the multiple Windows soon!

Very frustrating that I've been having to work in the older version of bridge because of this issue, and an old version of illustrator because of fonts. JEESH. I am crashing all day long and I've had it! come on adobe, seriously.

New version of Bridge 15.2 but ro resolution.

Why cant you reinstall "Open New window" you should be couster friendly and adjust to costumer needs.

But you ar are not. Contrary you destroy workflow and makes us keep to wersions open och bridge. I dont get it.

Its surreal...why?

I'm sure there might be a solution on the horizon given the backlash in terms of the reduced functionality regarding this feature, to be fair though, I've been getting on just fine with the previous version in the time being, is there any big jump between the two versions I might have missed in terms of new functionality? 

Hi, @Chris218117816j4a, I do this all the time, and, and fact, I find it much easier to do this with multiple Tabs than multiple Windows. I'm not saying that multiple windows should not be restored — they should be. But please do not deny yourself an opportunity to try a different approach that I find much easier. 

Here's what I do: in the parent folder of images, create subfolders of the catetories you want to work with. Let's say you have a bunch of pictures of animals; dogs, cats, birds, fish, etc. Now, make a folder for each of them. 

At this point, you'll want to stretch out the Content Panel to be wide, as wide as you can; maybe remove unnecessary columns depending on how many folders you have. If you sort by time of creation, the folders should be on the top of the screen. 

Now, right click on a folder and select the option to "Open in New Content Tab." Do this for all of your folders.

Now, click on an image of (say) cats, and drag it to the name of the Cat's folder, this will shift the view of the folders to the Cats folder, and drop the image in there. Now, click back to the primary folder and continue. If you see a string of cat images, simply shift-click the string and do the same thing. If you see cat, dog, cat, lizard, fish, cat, etc., simply Command/Control click the just the cat images and do the same thing.

The one possible limitation on this is that depending on the amount of ram your computer has, you may get a message that Bridge has run out of room. If that happens, delete one of the tabs, and continue.

For an extended view of what can be done, please check out this thing I wrote some time back.

If you look at the Content Panel, note the hamburger menu on the right-hand side (three horizontal lines). To the left of the Hamburger menu, you'll see a plus (+) (red arrow). If you click on that, you'll get a new Content Panel. If you click on the option in the Hamburger menu for a new Content Panel (green arrow), you'll also get a new Content Panel.

The primary disadvantage of these two options currently is that either will default to a "home" position and are not likely to provide access to the folder you want. Fortunately, for any Content Panel that is active (note the blue square and blue line circling the Panel), if you go to the Recent icon in the icons on top, if you select a folder from there, it will open up in that Content Panel.

Likewise, if you select a folder from the Folders Panel. In addition, if you take an image or a folder and drag it to the Bridge icon in the Dock, THAT folder will open in the active Content Panel. Hopefully, soon they will provide both "Open" and "Recent" options in the Hamburger menu.

If you have a folder with other sub-folders, you can always right-click on one of the subfolders, and it can be opened in a new Content Panel

Once you have two or more Content Panels, you can drag from one to the other by simply mouse-down on an image (or all selected images), then move the mouse up to the title area of the other Content Panel to make it the active Panel and release. IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE before you do anything, then Comand/Control-z and you'll be good.

Note also that extra Content Panels can be placed and/or moved to any other location in the Bridge window.

I hope this explains some of the new workflows available to you.