Adobe Bridge is a complete file management system. If we can already do these things with our normal file browser, why bother learning how to do them in Bridge? The reason is simple. Every basic function we can perform using our operating system's file browser, we can do with Adobe Bridge. With Bridge, we can create new folders, rename folders and images, and delete folders and images. It can also copy or move entire folders from one location to another. Bridge lets us copy or move images from one folder to another. But we can also use Bridge to find the images we're looking for on our computer. As we've already seen, we can use Bridge to download our photos from our camera or memory card. Bridge is similar in many ways to the file browser you use with your computer's operating system. Bridge Is A File BrowserĪt its most basic, Adobe Bridge is a file browser. Adobe Bridge Features Overviewīefore we look at Adobe Bridge in more detail, let's quickly go over some of the many great features that Bridge has to offer. We can use Bridge to manage not just images but also Adobe Illustrator files, InDesign files, videos, and more! Since we're mainly interested in Photoshop, we'll focus on how we can use Bridge with our photos.Īdobe Bridge. Bridge is actually a companion program for every app in the Adobe Creative Cloud (or the Creative Suite). In fact, Bridge isn't limited to just photos, or just Photoshop. That's because Adobe Bridge gives us powerful ways to find, manage and organize our ever-growing collection of images. Bridge is often referred to as a digital asset manager, or a media manager. This is lesson 4 of 8 in Chapter 1 - Getting Started with Photoshop series.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! What Is Adobe Bridge?Īdobe Bridge is a companion program for Photoshop. I'll be using Adobe Bridge CC but everything is fully compatible with Bridge CS6 (the version included with Photoshop CS6). By the end of this tutorial, we'll have a good sense of why Bridge is such a great tool for finding, organizing and previewing our images.

We'll look at the Adobe Bridge interface along with some of the main features in Bridge. We'll learn what exactly Bridge is and why we want to use it. In this tutorial, we'll learn more about Adobe Bridge itself.

And we learned how to use Bridge to download photos from your camera to your computer. We learned how to install Adobe Bridge CC (the version of Bridge included with every Creative Cloud subscription). So far in this Getting Started with Photoshop series, we've been focusing on Adobe Bridge.

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