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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

Correct answer Brian S. Rasmussen

Hi,
You can sort by lenght in Bridge by choosing Sort by Dimensions. This sorting is using the pixels on the x-axis (lenght).

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chrisdpage7717237

Known Participant

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

Community Expert

@chrisdpage7717237 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/

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Nemo_Sorin

Participant

For most folks, this app is useless. Downloaded and instaled, it seem a simple organizer. Maybe for powerhorse pro user, but for me...it only consume space... Uninstaled quickly

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Toastman3000

Known Participant

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

louised43358484

Known Participant

It is for someone with a load of patience. I have updated and had to revert back to 12.0.4.286 so many times that I am dizzy. The newest version spends all of it's time locked up, crashed or unresponsive during culling photos, labelling, rating, assinging keywords etc.. It will not rename files without locking my computer up to the point that I have to do a hard reboot, this is unacceptable for a program that has been around as long as Bridge has. It is not good for our computers to have to keep doing these hard reboots, not to mention that it just makes your customers angry.

Version 12.0.4.286 is frequently flashing the thumnails when trying to view images in any space, Essentials, Filmstrip etc. but at least it doesn't lock my machine up like the "newest" version does. I can get 1 photo edited and saved into PSD, then I have to shut Bridge down and restart it. Adobe must think that we have nothing but time on our hands to deal with these issues, we apparently do not have deadlines or customers waiting for us to edit and get their images to them.

It is not like I don't have machine enough to run it and Photoshop

2021 iMac on Ventura with I7 processor, 16 gigs ram graphics card, 96 gigs of ram, 1 tb ssd harddrive

gary_sc

Community Expert

HI, @louised43358484; I'm both surprised and sorry to hear about your issues. I had a 2015 iMac, w/ 36 GB of ram and (I think it was) 4 GB of video ram (which was max at the time). When I started using Bridge 2023, it ran like a charm. Yes, there were some issues, but none of the issues you are describing. I never had to stop and restart Bridge to continue or reboot my computer. Now I'm on a Mac Studio, and other than it being a lot faster than my 2015 iMac, there is no difference in the performance of Bridge — just sailing along.

Meanwhile, you have a sweet machine. There's no reason for what you're experiencing.

Just out of curiosity, what maintenance operations have you done to Bridge (other than restarting and stuff like that)?

Are you experiencing ANY weird, stupid computer stuff in any other application, or is it just Bridge?

louised43358484

Known Participant

I have cleared cache, compacted numerous times, reset preferences so many times that I don't bother setting them back unless it affects how files open in ACR or anything like that.

Bridge is the only thing that I am having issues with. Photoshop runs like a charm, I took Lightroom off a few months ago and swore that I would not go back to it but it looks like that's what I might have to do.
We did a full switch to Bridge because my daughter's laptop is new but definitely not specced out like my Mac, so it would save her having to have Lightroom running at the same time as PS. Bridge normally takes a lot less resources to run than LR but I have just about given up on keeping Bridge running long enough to get any work done.

Heathenlamb

Known Participant

For love of god can you PLEASE give us the ability to sort by LENGTH .... PLEEEEAAASSSEEEE

Brian S. RasmussenCorrect answer

Inspiring

Hi,
You can sort by lenght in Bridge by choosing Sort by Dimensions. This sorting is using the pixels on the x-axis (lenght).

Heathenlamb

Known Participant

Length refers to time. As it does in literally every file system in existence.

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Misty24708243h9ft

Participant

Does anyone know why I can't preview my PDF files in Adobe Bridge? I just get a big white rectangle. I thought Bridge supported Adobe files?

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Weavedweller

Participant

The raw workflow is completel abandoned....why would Adobe make such a radical shift to the application? It is useless for CR2 files.

So disappointed in this update.

gary_sc

Community Expert

@Weavedweller wait, what?

What on earth are you talking about? It works great for raw, DNG, TIF, jpg, and files in ACR. Not only good, but better than ever!

Please provide some "pain points" for what you're hitting because I do not see what you're seeing.

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Weavedweller

Participant

I cannot find any of the tools I used previously.

Where have the exposure settings gone?

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mikkael

Participant

I assume, you have written this and never have used Bridge on a daily basis. If you have, you wouldn't recommend it to anyone. It is the worst piece of software on my Mac today. It has been the worst software on my Mac, since I bought the newest model. It was the worst software on all of my other Macs. You keep ignoring, what people say. But then again, you're Adobe, that is what you do. You are a "no-reply"-business, always one way traffic.

fotomatt21239347

Participating Frequently

Adobe is proving itself deaf to its users. The new version of Bridge is a horrendous failure and if Adobe would read user comments would know that. You took away one of the key features that made Bridge the amazing digital asset management tool it was. Multiple windows. Period. That's it. Your new "improved" method doesn't work for what your users need.

Is anyone listening or are you all so busy wrapped in your comfy cocoon of UX-blindness that you're unable to respond?

Adobe user since 1991. Bridge user for as long as I can recall. College educator who teaches Bridge as part of digital workflow.

Matt Li

From somewhere on Colorado's Continental Divide...~ fotomattlinktr.ee/fotomatt

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olivierMG

Known Participant

And it is quite funny to notice how Adobe absolutely doesn't care about solving the problems.

Keyboard AZERTY are not usable anymore but since we'are a few using such keyboards they decide to put the problem away...

melissapiccone

Community Expert

One of the superpowers of Bridge was that you could open multiple windows. This made moving and organizing files a breeze. I can no longer open multiple windows.

I see I can now pull out a content window and have the windows float. Little learning curve required for this new version.

Melissa Piccone | Adobe Trainer | Online Courses Author | Fine Artist

gary_sc

Community Expert

Melissa, you can now, after 15 years of requests, open multiple Content Panels.

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.

Let me add that the engineers are aware of those who must have multiple windows and are examining if it can be returned.

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chrisdpage7717237

Known Participant

thanks this is helpful.

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kevang

Participating Frequently

Latest iteration of Bridge is utterly useless. The porogram crashes repeatedly whenever i try to navigate to a sub-folder. Numerous functions that were in 2022 are simply not available in 2023. Repeated requests for support on this all unanswered ... this is what we pay a subscription for?

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Toastman3000

Known Participant

Not to mention, exporting files from Bridge STILL results in all metadata being visible, including camera serial number. It's been like this for a decade now. No matter what one selects for metadata export options.

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