Adobe Bridge CS4 is a powerful, easy-to-use media manager for visual people, letting you easily organize, browse, locate, and view creative assets. Available in all six editions of Adobe Creative Suite® 4 software and in most of Adobe's professional creative applications, Bridge provides centralized access to project files and global settings, as well as to XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.0.0.464:
Included with Creative Suite 4 (no update available).
Photoshop integration has vanished, and Bridge no longer "sees" stored Photoshop actions, so batch processing is now non-functional.
Stock Photos doesn't work at all.
Bridge initiates an internet connection when you do ANYTHING (eg. click on a local image, open a folder) which slows it to a crawl.
CS2 Bridge worked fine, CS3 Bridge is total crap. And to make things even worse it can't be uninstalled without deleting the entire suite. (Version 2.1)
ANONYMOUS BRIDGE 1.0.3 DOES NOT CORRECTLY INSTALL THE RAW PLUGIN. To remedy, download the latest ACR update you want to use, then drag the plugin to Library/ApplicationSupport/Adobe/Plugins/CS2/FileFormats, and replace the corrupted one. (Version 1.0.3)
ANONYMOUS Maybe 1.0.4 will fix the mess that 1.0.3 has given us,
on top of RAW plugin problem now the large image window in Bridge shows only a postage stamp size image. Un installed 1.0.3 re installed 1.0.2 and the stamp size image is still with me ........
Please folks, (Adobe), so much else is so good, but Bridge is pivotal and yet it is slow and now down right
TOURNESOL This app is so painfully slow that I'm wondering what the hell it is they update from time to time. This is really embarrasing Adobe! Startup time is probably the worst of any app I have run on OS X. Pathetic!!! (Version 1.0.3)
PETER These bridge updates are starting to really annoy me as they are always over 40mb and they never seem to make any difference to the program. The program is still as memory eating and slow as ever. (Version 1.0.3)
ANONYMOUS very funny, but if i don't download them, how am i supposed to know if a difference is made? (Version 1.0.3)
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Nov 17 2005
ANONYMOUS Something might be up with your system. It widely reported that the 1.02 update significantly sped up startup, and I experienced that improvement myself, with a timer. (Version 1.0.3)
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Nov 17 2005
ANONYMOUS All seems well and good - but the updater messed up my Camera Raw plugin install. Thankfully I got an error message about it on first launch.
A quick reinstall and all was fine. (Version 1.0.3)