Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge is a free digital asset management application that can help users of Adobe Suite of apps to take full control over their local and network-attached storage, organize their multimedia files, and make them easily accessible for future viewing, access, and integration in projects. With over 15 years experience of in managing Adobe-focused files, Bridge has evolved into a fully-featured desktop media browser that can completely simplify the process of location, browsing, organization, and batch processing of all your content files. This includes not only digital photo images and vector image files but also audio/video files, RAW camera files, and project files created by the most popular Adobe applications such as Photoshop (PSD), Illustrator (AI), Acrobat (PDF), Flash (SWF/FLV), Adobe XD and many others.

The best thing yet, Adobe Bridge can not only organize all those files but also preview them without the need to install (or even own or have subscription access) to corresponding standalone Adobe apps. Of course, editing those files (tweaking visual aspects of photos, cropping audio files, etc.) is impossible while using only the Bridge app.

This powerful preview feature transforms Adobe Bridge into a flexible management/viewer application and capable visual gateway to your local storage. No matter if you are a novice or seasoned professional, It enables everyone to quickly and effortlessly find multimedia and Adobe project files on your PC or laptop, find and sort files by their types, metadata, and even perform various batch conversion procedures that can furthermore help in organizing large libraries of content.

It can perform more conversion and manipulation procedures on photos if the user also has installed the latest version of the Photoshop app, which unlocks access to a wide array of automation plugins, scripts, and camera RAW filters for single and batch image processing. Photoshop users can also access a plugin that brings some of the features of Bridge directly into this photo-editing app. Also, It has a built-in capability for adding watermarks to images, create as many collections as you require, rate and label photograph (which can help in searching and sorting them), do various batch processing procedures (renaming and more), create slideshows, preview directories without importing files into its library, and much more.

Seasoned users of Adobe app suite have found Bridge to be an invaluable tool for managing larger data sets that are created during daily work on large projects. The app is especially useful for marking and sorting such files, giving users the ability to create their sorting procedures, marking files with metadata entries, ratings, bookmarks, or even coloring directory icons for easier visual inspection.

While Adobe Bridge was the part of the Adobe Creative Suite 2 (2005), after a decade and half of development and upgrades, this app was decoupled from all other Adobe offerings and offered to all users around the world as a 100% FREE app. No matter if you own any other Adobe app or if you are an active Creative Cloud subscriber, you can download and freely use all Adobe Bridge features without any restrictions.