While the application is idle, Bridge will now clear out that cache of unused or stale data, and you can use an option to clean your cache when the disk space reaches a certain point. The thing is the cache would sort of improve the performance while in use, but now you can sort of decide how the cache works in order to optimize Bridge for your balance of performance and size. Bridge created a database of cache files like thumbnails and metadata and depending on the size of your cache, the size could be considerable. One of the things Bridge has been rightfully criticized for is something that seems to place Lightroom too, and that is it was a resource hog. Hopefully, now you’ll have some understanding, even a small bit more, to appreciate the updates. There’s more, but tonight you’ll get just the tip. You can also open them immediately in Adobe Camera Raw, even jpegs, access and apply presets you already have, and batch apply. You can rate your images, tag them, group them, batch edit and batch re-name, convert images to different formats and adjust various metadata. For photographers specifically, you are able to browse images anywhere on your computer with ease, unlike the import process required for LR, and while doing so, you’ll see EXIF data and tags and all of the like right there within Bridge. But it’s not just about ways to look at your files, but what you can do with them. The browsing experience within Bridge is unlike Lightroom, and unlike almost any other program with the carousel view with the 100% preview loupe, and so forth. It is, essentially, the central visual management nucleus of the Adobe suite. Also, you can use it to help you sync color management settings across the CC board. But Bridge allows for browsing of folders on your computer freely, and the management of assets between applications that Lightroom was never designed or enabled to do. In Bridge, you are able to browse large collections of images in all file types Photoshop can see, batch edit those images in a manner you can’t in Lightroom nor Photoshop, even though it’s often compared to Lightroom. But what it became is much more than that. You see, what Bridge is, above anything else, is a media browsing application used by creative professionals of all types.

It was born out of the necessity to manage and view large amounts of images native to digital photography.

If you’ve bought into Adobe Creative Cloud or flat-out purchased Photoshop in the last few years, you’ve had access to Bridge, not that you’d have used it, because it appears many don’t. But this seems to be only true when there’s a lack of understanding as to what Bridge is, and whence it came, so here’s a primer.Īdobe Bridge is the evolutionary variant of Photoshop’s ‘File Browser’ feature introduced in Photoshop 7. Adobe Bridge, for many photographers, sits in the Creative Cloud family like Rob fits in the Kardashians it doesn’t appear to – it’s number 13 in the baker’s dozen and doesn’t quite fit in the box.

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