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Chapter 4: Adobe Bridge
The basics of Bridge
About Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge is the control center for Adobe Creative Suite. You use it to organize, browse, and locate the assets you
need to create content for print, the web, and mobile devices. Adobe Bridge keeps native PSD, AI, INDD, and Adobe
PDF files as well as other Adobe and non-Adobe application files available for easy access.You can drag assets into
your layouts as needed, preview them, and even add metadata to them. Bridge is available independently, as well as
from within Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe GoLive.
File browsing
From Bridge you can view, search, sort, manage, and process image files. You can use Bridge to create
new folders; rename, move, and delete files; edit metadata; rotate images; and run batch commands. You can also
view information about files and data imported from your digital camera.
Version Cue
If you have Adobe Creative Suite, you can use Bridge as a central location from which to use Adobe
Version Cue. From Bridge, you can browse all the files in a project in one place without having to start the native
application for each file, including non-Adobe application files. Also, you can create new Version Cue projects, delete
projects, create versions, save alternates, and set access privileges in Bridge. See “Working with Version Cue in
Bridge” on page 69.
Bridge Center
If you have Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Bridge includes Bridge Center, the “dashboard” of Adobe
Creative Suite, where you can view news readers in your web browser, see your most recent activity, read about tips
and tricks for using Adobe products, save groups of files, and more. Adobe Creative Suite users can also use Bridge
to specify color management settings and access scripts that help automate your workflow. See “About Bridge
Center” on page 61.
Camera Raw
If you have Adobe Photoshop installed, you can open and edit camera raw files from Bridge and save
them in a Photoshop-compatible format. You can edit the image settings directly in the Camera Raw dialog box
without starting Photoshop. If you don’t have Photoshop installed, you can still preview the camera raw files in
Bridge. See “To open files in Bridge” on page 56.
Stock Photos
Click Adobe Stock Photos from the Favorites pane in Bridge to search leading stock libraries for
royalty-free images. You can download low-resolution, complementary versions of the images and try them out in
your projects before purchasing them. See “About Adobe Stock Photos” on page 71.
Color management
You can use Bridge to synchronize color settings across applications. This synchronization
ensures that colors look the same no matter which Creative Suite application you view them in. See “To synchronize
color settings across Adobe applications” on page 202.
See also
“The Bridge work area” on page 48
The Bridge work area
These are the main components of the Adobe Bridge window:
The menu bar
Contains commands specific to Bridge. In Windows®, the menu bar is at the top of the Bridge
window. In Mac OS®, the menu bar is located at the top of the screen.
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