Adobe Bridge is a free

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app made by

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and first released with Adobe Creative Suite 2. It is a mandatory component of Adobe Creative Suite,

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and

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CS2 through CS6. Starting with Creative Cloud, however, it has become an optional component downloaded via Creative Cloud subscription.

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Adobe Bridge is often used to organize files by renaming a group of them at once, assigning colored labels or star ratings assigned to files from the respective Adobe software suite, edit embedded or associated XMP and IPTC Information Interchange Model

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, or sort or categorize them based on their metadata. It can use these options through different versions of a file that is part of an Adobe Version Cue project. However, it lacks the photo editing functions of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, which are carried out by the Camera Raw plugin, coming with Adobe Photoshop. Image files can be shown in different sized thumbnails, slide shows or lists. Each folder, which can be bookmarked, has a cache file for speeding up rendering time of images when viewing a thumbnail. The cache can be in one central location or in individual folders. Adobe Bridge can be invoked from within all components of Creative Suite except

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. Coupled with Adobe Photoshop, Bridge can execute Photoshop's compatible automation plug-ins, scripts and Adobe Camera Raw filters on a group of images. A plugin for Photoshop called Mini Bridge adds a small

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to Photoshop, although Mini Bridge can be used only if Adobe Bridge is running in the background. Adobe Bridge is customizable using

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. The Bridge scripting guide is available online as well as in

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format. Adobe Bridge initially allowed for access to

Adobe Stock Photos Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a discontinued software suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development application software, applications developed by Adobe Systems. The last of the Creative Suite versions, Adobe Creative Suite 6 (CS6) ...

, an online collection of stock photography images drawn from well-known stock photo houses. The service was discontinued on April 1, 2008 and reactivated in 2015 by the Fotolia microstock-site acquisition. Currently, the minimum system requirements are Windows 10 (version 21H2) or MacOS 12 Monterey.

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Supported file formats

The table below contains the supported file formats that can be opened or accessed in Adobe Bridge.

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Proprietary image organizers MacOS graphics software Metadata Windows graphics-related software

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