It lets you import, sort, keyword, add metadata, rate, pick, and delete images-no catalog required.Īdobe Bridge started simply as an external file browser for Photoshop, but over the years it has evolved into a digital asset manager with its own nooks and crannies worth exploring. I’m looking forward to giving it a try since it has been a long time since I used it at all.Ĭheck out the official Adobe blog post for more details.Even if you use Lightroom as your primary editor, don’t forget about Bridge. The new version of Bridge should be available to download now for Creative Cloud users. Importing photos to Bridge on a Mac used to be, well, pretty broken and now it has been fixed for a variety of important devices.
Adobe says this gives an overall much faster experience when browsing folders. So, the search will work almost right away (in case you star rate your images in camera or something like that), but the thumbs only load as you scroll past them or when the computer is idle. Rather than trying to generate previews for an entire folder once it’s selected, Bridge now prioritizes the on-screen images as well as the metadata for all of the photos. Now, Bridge automatically jettisons information that hasn’t been used in a while to keep things running lean and mean.Īdobe has also changed the way previews are generated. Once you build up too much of this information, it tends to make things run slower. The cache is where Bridge stores all of its crucial data, like thumbnails, previews, and metadata. In order to do that, the new version of Bridge has tweaked the cache management system. If you’re going to be flipping through huge collections of photos, you want them to load as quickly as possible. The big draw with Bridge CC 6.2 is the increase in speed. Now, Bridge is back and it’s promising some crucial upgrades. For those who are unfamiliar, Bridge is something of a companion piece of software for Photoshop that allows you to quickly browse and organize files before opening them in the image editing app. Once Adobe brought Lightroom into the mix, the Bridge workflow software always seemed to occupy a bit of an odd space in its overall hierarchy.
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