And the Collections panel lets us group related images together. Usually, the first thing we want to do after opening Bridge is find some images to work on. That's where the two panels in the upper left, Folders and Favorites, come in. The Folders panel is our main way of navigating to our images. It displays the folders on your computer in a familiar and easy-to-use "tree" structure. The Favorites panel lets us quickly access the folders and file locations we use the most, just like bookmarks in your web browser!
Adobe Bridge groups related panels together to save space, just like Photoshop does. And just like in Photoshop, we can switch between panels in a group by clicking on the name tabs along the top of the group. Here, we're seeing the Favorites panel.
By default, Bridge adds some common file locations to the Favorites panel, like your Desktop, Documents folder and Pictures folder. We can quickly jump to any of these locations by clicking on them. We can also add our own folders and file locations to the Favorites panel. We'll learn how to do that in a moment:. It lets us drill down through our folders to get to the files we need.
Clicking the triangle to the left of a folder will twirl that folder open, revealing the folders inside it. Keep making your way down through your folders until you reach the one that holds your images. The "JPEG" folder is inside a parent folder named "photos".
And the "photos" folder is sitting on my Desktop:. We can easily add a folder to the Favorites panel. Then choose Add to Favorites from the menu:.
I'll switch back to my Favorites panel by clicking on its tab. And here we see that my "JPEG" folder has been added to the list. The next time I need to access the folder, I'll be able to quickly jump right to it:. The Path Bar along the top of the Bridge interface gives us another way to see our current file location. But the Path Bar doesn't just show us where we are. It also lets us quickly jump to any other location along the path. For example, if I wanted to jump to my Desktop, all I would need to do is click on "Desktop" in the Path Bar and Bridge would take me right there:.
Bridge also gives us familiar Back and Forward buttons in the upper left corner. These buttons act just like the Back and Forward buttons in your web browser. Use them to move back and forth through your navigation history:. If the images you need are still on your camera or memory card, Bridge makes it easy to download them to your computer. You'll find a small camera icon in the toolbar along the upper left of the interface.
This is the Get Photos from Camera icon:. Clicking the camera icon opens the Adobe Photo Downloader. Here, we can choose the camera or memory card that holds our images. We can then choose the location where we want to store the images on our computer. We can rename the files as they're being downloaded, add copyright information to them, and more! I covered how to download photos from your camera in the previous tutorial:.
Once we've navigated to our images using the Folders or Favorites panel, they appear as thumbnails in the Content panel. The Content panel is the largest panel in Bridge, taking up the entire section in the middle.
Here, we see thumbnail previews of all the images inside my "JPEG" folder:. The slider along the bottom right of the Bridge interface makes it easy to adjust the size of the thumbnails. Drag the slider to the right to make the thumbnails larger. Drag to the left to make them smaller. There's also an icon on either side of the slider bar. Clicking the icons will increase right icon or decrease left icon the thumbnail size incrementally:.
Here we see that after dragging the slider to the right, my thumbnails are now much bigger. In fact, they're so big that only a few of them can fit within the Content panel's viewable area. The scroll bar along the right of the Content panel lets us scroll through our thumbnails when they're either too large, or when there's just too many, to fit all of them on the screen at once:.
To select an image in the Content panel, click once on its thumbnail. A preview of the image will appear in the Preview panel in the upper right of the Bridge interface:. If you find that the preview is too small, as mine is, you can easily resize the Preview panel to make it larger. In fact, we can resize any of the panels in Bridge in exactly the same way. Simply hover your mouse cursor over the vertical divider line on the left or right of a panel.
Or, over the horizontal divider line above or below a panel. Your cursor will change into a resize icon with two arrows pointing in opposite directions.
Click and drag the divider line to resize the panel as needed. You'll notice that as you resize the Preview panel, the image inside the panel resizes along with it:. Increasing the size of one panel in Bridge decreases the size of other panels since there's only so much room on the screen. In this case, by making the Preview panel larger, I've made my Content panel smaller. That's okay, though, because personally, I'd rather use the space for larger previews.
You can customize the interface any way you like:. With a thumbnail selected in the Content panel, go up to the View menu in the Menu Bar along the top of the screen and choose Full Screen Preview.
Or just press the spacebar on your keyboard:. This instantly jumps your image to a full screen view, with the entire image fitting on the screen. If the aspect ratio of your image isn't the same as the aspect ratio of your screen, you'll see gray bars either on the sides or along the top and bottom:.
This makes it easier to judge the sharpness and focus of the image. To zoom back out, click once again on the image. To exit Full Screen Preview mode completely, press the spacebar again on your keyboard:. The Full Screen Preview mode is great for viewing single images. But what if you need to quickly browse through an entire folder of images?
That's where the Review Mode in Bridge really shines. Just go up to the View menu at the top of the screen and choose Review Mode. Review Mode displays your images as a rotating carousel. You can rotate from one image to the next using the left and right arrows in the bottom left corner of the screen. You can also press the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard. When you come to an image you don't want to keep, press the down arrow in the bottom left of the screen or the down arrow key on your keyboard.
This will drop the image from the selection and move on to the next image. When you're done reviewing your images, click the " X " in the bottom right corner or the Esc key on your keyboard. This will close Review Mode.
Back in the Content panel, only the images you didn't drop during the review process will be selected:. While in Review Mode, we can click on an image to bring up the Loupe Tool. The Loupe Tool in Adobe Bridge acts like a magnifying glass.
This makes it easy to check the sharpness and focus of an image. Click and drag the Loupe Tool around to inspect different areas. To close the Loupe Tool, click anywhere inside of it:. To make it easy to separate good images from bad, Bridge lets us apply ratings to our images.
It uses a popular one-to-five-star rating system. To show how ratings work, I've selected three images in my Content panel. The images I chose are the second, third and fourth in the top row.
Or, if all the images you want to select are in a continuous row, there's an easier way. Click on the thumbnail of the first image to select it. Then, press and hold your Shift key and click on the last image. This will select the first image, the last image and all images in between. Notice that with three images selected, my Preview panel is displaying larger previews of all three images.
The Preview panel can display up to nine images at a time:. Let's say I decide I really like these three photos. I may want to indicate that by giving them a five star rating. With all three images selected, I'll go up to the Label menu at the top of the screen. From there, I'll choose five stars.
Choose No Rating to clear the previous rating from the image. For images you know you don't want to keep, choose Reject :. Once you've rated some images, you can filter the Content panel to show only images with a certain rating. Click the Filter Items by Rating icon the star in the upper right of the Bridge interface. Then, choose an option from the menu. To view only my 5 star images, I'll choose Show 5 Stars :.
And now, only those three images with a 5 star rating remain in the Content panel. Images with fewer than 5 stars, or no rating at all, are temporarily hidden. We can also choose to view only rejected images, or images with no rating.
Or, we can view only images with our without a color label assigned to them:. To view all of your images once again, click on the Filter Items by Rating icon and choose Clear Filter from the top of the menu:. Below the Preview panel on the right are the Metadata and Keywords panels nested together in a group.
Both of these panels are extremely valuable. The Metadata panel displays everything we'd want to know about an image. We can view the shot date, the camera settings that were used, and the file size and type.
We can also view the image's color mode and bit depth, or whether or not the flash fired, and lots more. The Metadata panel can also be used to add additional details to the image, like our copyright and contact info.
Use the scroll bar along the right to scroll through all the details. The Keywords panel is nested in beside the Metadata panel. Click on the Keywords tab to open it. The Keywords panel lets us create descriptive keywords and assign them to images.
Later, when we need to find those images again, we can search for them by their keywords. To add a new keyword, click the New Keyword button at the bottom, then type in your keyword. To assign an existing keyword to an image, select the image in the Content panel. Then, click inside the checkbox of the keyword you want to assign. You can assign multiple keywords to the same image.
To remove a keyword, select the image in the Content panel, then uncheck the keyword:. Below the Favorites and Folders panel on the left of Bridge is the Filter panel. You can edit the images directly in the Camera Raw dialog box without starting Photoshop or Lightroom, and copy settings from one image to another.
See Introduction to Camera Raw. You can use Adobe Bridge to synchronize color settings across color-managed Adobe Cloud components. This synchronization ensures that colors look the same in all Adobe Creative Cloud apps. See Manage color. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Organize content and assets using Adobe Bridge Search. Adobe Bridge User Guide. Select an article: Select an article:.
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