🔎 What is Adobe Bridge and who it is for now?

[Sahil.Chawla]

Centralize Your Creative Assets with Adobe Bridge | Adobe Creative Cloud

What is Adobe Bridge?

Adobe Bridge is a powerful and easy-to-use software that lets you view and organize the files by renaming a group of them at once or by assigning colored labels or star ratings to them.

Adobe Bridge is a part of Adobe Creative Cloud. It lets you organize the assets you use to create content for print, web, and video. Adobe Bridge keeps native Adobe files (such as PSD and PDF) and non‑Adobe files available for easy access. You can drag assets into your layouts, projects, and compositions as needed, preview files, and even add metadata (file information), making the files easier to locate.

Who can use Adobe Bridge?

Bridge is ideal for creative professionals and designers who work with different types of creative assets like photos, vectors, video and 3D files. Bridge and Adobe Camera RAW offer an alternative approach to Lightroom users. With Bridge, photographers can browse images directly on their file system and edit them.

What does Adobe Bridge do?

Adobe Bridge is a powerful software that lets you preview, edit, and publish creative assets quickly and easily thereby improving content velocity. You can preview most of the file formats supported by Adobe Creative Cloud applications including Dimension files. You can edit filename, metadata, keywords, and other parameters in bulk. You can publish assets in various formats, and PDF contact sheets.

Staying organized is as simple as viewing your project files with Adobe Bridge.

Where can I get Adobe Bridge?

Bridge can be downloaded through the Creative Cloud desktop app. As long as you’re signed in to the Creative Cloud desktop app you can download Adobe Bridge from the All Apps section:

You can download Adobe Bridge from here: https://www.adobe.com/products/bridge.html

Are there any tutorials available for Adobe Bridge?

You can learn how to use Adobe Bridge by following this user guide: https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/user-guide.html

Please have a look at these related articles to learn more about Adobe Bridge:

Welcome to the Bridge User Guide

View and manage files in Adobe Bridge

Learn what's new in the latest release of Bridge

Organize content and assets using Adobe Bridge

[Toastman3000]

Same, I agree

It cant do contact sheets properly

It can't manage metadata properly (there's a bug that's existed since the beggining in removing certain metadata)

It can't do ACR properly once you add a layer to a TIFF

The catalog is terribly slow and not as flexible as compared to something like NeoFinder

I do like the fancy image review mode though, wish LR had it but there's really no point to Bridge I can see

[melissapiccone]

It's not an organizer, it's a file browser. I use it instead of my Mac Finder - or Windows Explorer. It has fantastic features that are missing / lacking in the OS file browsers. It has batch capbilities, collections, export to other file formats, the best previews, you can see all the thumbnails for mulitple page documents, scrub through video, so much more. 

[MarshalSerna]

I agree. For me it is an indispensable tool. That said, if Dr. Brown's Services ever stop working it will be a real problem.

[AlanGilbertson]

Any tool is useless if you don't learn what it is for or how to use it. If by "most folks" you mean casual consumers, well, that's not who Bridge is made for. It is a professional tool, like the rest of the CC apps.

Bridge isn't a consumer toy, and there should be no expectation that it will behave like one. "Didn't like, uninstalled." is another way of saying "Couldn't understand, didn't try, gave up." Compared with other DAMs (digital asset managers), which is the class of tool into which Bridge falls, it is simpler to use and easier to learn than anything else on the market while being just as powerful in many respects. And it's free.

[Nemo_Sorin]

Indeed. Bu adobe have a long term problematic software. past 20 years bugs translated from version to version, huge problem with temp files (300 Gb partition remain quickly without space, only working on photoshop). Huge memory problems and a lot of coding problems. Even if dual and triple video setup, adobe use single setup only. Instalation files take space like an separate os. And no...i am not a concurent of adobe. I am a simple it service guy and most of time need to bang my head to make this faulty ecosytem to work. There is no surprise that much more profesionals use Apple ecosystem ( i do not like macs, but designers seem a lot more happy with it) And the price... come one is a real  steal (like in many industries - no difference) I stop here because it will be hundred of page to write or disqus.  And no...is not free, that is another lie. Is supported on cost of other tools., is part of the ecosytem. Show me 1milion user that use bridge without use of other payed adobe products. This is hilaryous and a sugar gum for children.  Adobe is not a charity...just look at the BILIONS OF PROFIt... Sorry for potential gramatical error, enghlish is not my native language.

[AlanGilbertson]

Nobody objects to your English. We do object to discourtesy and incorrect information.

Adobe apps work fine across multiple monitors, and have done for years. Bridge was a latecomer, but Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, etc., have been multi-monitor for many years. I have never run into problems with temp files regardless of size except for print files on a Mac, many years ago. As for "installation files take space," there is no professional-grade software of any kind, running on any platform (i.e., not cloud computing), whose installation files don't take space.

Adobe Bridge is free, meaning you can use it without paying a subscription. All you need is a free Adobe account, the same one that you might use for free access to Adobe Express.

[jane-e]

Uninstaled quickly

By @Nemo_Sorin

I'm curious. How did you figure out that Bridge was useless (for you) when you uninstalled it quickly and did not take the time to learn what it can do?

Jane

[chrisdpage]

As others point point out Bridge is much like Finder, but more powerfu. It previews almost every file type.

it's nearly indispencible. 

A powerful tool when you have campaigns that include Web, print, POP, and internal document.  

Where it falls apart a little, (as Finder does) is the METADATA.

This could be the Fault of Illustrator/Acrobat / EPS's or the OS, by now though, there should be solustions for this. 

This needs an overhaul.  

1. It should be editable. Add / Remove / Move up/down. 

2. Have more than one type of Dimension. - or all Dimensions 

3. PDFs don't have F-Stops so why is that there?

This whole section could be amazing. if only it was editable.

until then. DIMENSIONS are only meant for Digital/Screens.

Humans like dividing by 72! Hence why file names have 34.5x72 in the name. 

At least its ok to put a . in a file name now. 

[AlanGilbertson]

@chrisdpage All worthy ideas. Post them on adobebridge.uservoice.com and join the Bridge prerelease. New voices and new viewpoints with conscructive ideas are always welcome. Apply at https://www.adobeprerelease.com/