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). And the easiest way to open it is from within Photoshop.So far in this Getting Started with Photoshop series, we've been focusing on Adobe Bridge.

So let's learn how to quickly install Bridge using the Adobe Creative Cloud desktop app.ĭownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! Step 1: Open the Creative Cloud appįirst, we need to open the Creative Cloud app, the same app we used in the previous tutorial when we learned how to keep Photoshop up to date.

That's because Bridge is its own separate application. And Bridge is one of the best ways to open images directly into Camera Raw, Photoshop's powerful image editing plugin.īut before we can use Bridge, we first need to install it. The reason is that Bridge is much more powerful and easier to use, with lots of great features that your operating system's file browser doesn't have. So you may wonder, 'Why not just use that?'. Your computer's operating system also has a built-in file browser, whether it's File Explorer in Windows or Finder on a Mac. Bridge is a file browser that lets you find, organize and open images into Photoshop. In this second tutorial in Getting Started with Photoshop, you'll learn how to install Adobe Bridge.

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